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

[Bernadette Jacobs]

Hey Everett:

Whatever you do, my friend, don't panic.  Firstly, you might ask your 
lovely wife to check your syringes for you.  "BD" no longer makes the 
half-inch needles with their 50-unit syringes.  As a matter of fact, 
seems all the makers of the almighty syringe are making 5/16-inch 
needles because they actually believe that patients like shorter 
needles.  Heaven forbid they should ask anyone!!!

At any rate, I'm actually beginning to think the age of the 
vial/syringe-count-A-Dose method is fading by the wayside and I think 
that medical evolution is coming in with the convenient almighty pen!  
Like it or not Darling.  So, don't panic my friend. This is nothing 
you've done.

Have a great day!!!

n e
On 11/12/2013 8:21 AM, Wanda Sloan wrote:
> 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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