[Diabetes-talk] Problems With the Count-a-Dose?

[Wanda Sloan]

Hi Cool: Good to hear from you.  I graduated from the Count A doses years
ago.  I am now on the pen.  Works good for me.  Just have to burp it before
you take it and dale up your usage and push it in.  Just listen to the
clicks.  No problems here. And I usually get a new Prodigy every 2 to 4
years.  Hello to your wife.  Good luck!
Salutations , Wan Sloan

-----Original Message-----
From: Diabetes-talk [mailto:diabetes-talk-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of
Everett Gavel
Sent: Sunday, November 10, 2013 8:32 PM
To: diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] Problems With the Count-a-Dose?

Hello All,

I've recognized some serious issues with my Count-a-Dose usage, and am
wondering if anyone else has recognized similar issues? I don't know if i
should just order a new one, or bypass it and use another method if it's
perhaps more widespread and not just, hopefully, my current product.

I bought a new Count-a-Dose a few years ago, after the patent was bought by
the new maker. I wanted to support their efforts to help blind diabetics,
y'know? I've recently come to realize that for who knows how many years
while I lived alone my Count-A-Dose may have been malfunctioning.

I've been married about a year and a half now, and I've now gotten into the
habit of asking my wife, who can see just fine, to verify that the correct
amount of units have gone into the thing, as well as checking for air. I've
known for a long while now that the clicks are sometimes irregular,
sometimes soft and unsure, and sometimes easy to recognize as a 'click,' or,
a unit of insulin. But I didn't think much of it. It always seemed pretty
much okay, not too unreliable I guess. But since having someone sighted
around to check the results, I've been frustrated over time to find that I
may have not only been injecting wrong amounts, and quite often it seems,
air rather than insulin. It's happening a lot more than is safe to monitor
one's insulin properly, safely. I hate feeling like I need sighted
assistance, but do not feel confident in the ability any more, with this
current product, to do it myself.

Now, before jumping to conclusions and thinking I'm just an idiot or
something, please understand that I do pay pretty strict attention to
putting in the same amount of air that i'm about to remove from each bottle
of insulin. Still, I have a hard time getting all insulin, all the time,
back into the syringe. If you simply attribute it to user error, I'll
struggle to not argue that point (smile). But I also realize it may well be
something *I'm* doing wrong. So I'm simply asking, has anyone else who used
or uses the Count-a-Dose with bottles of insulin, had any issues they've
recognized?


Thanks,
Everett



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