The new Pelikan Sun Lancet device is the first and only Electronic Lancet device.
It is so painless that you have to see the blood to believe.
Found at www.PelikanTechnologies.com
I am checking my glucose more often, just to keep trying it out.
After using devices where I never changed the lancet and/or only occasionally.
This uses the lancet only once. It is loaded with 50.
This will force me to use em only once.
But with no pain there is even more GAIN!!!
Oh, good grief… It looks very large! Pretty, but BIG.
I’m not too sensitive, so I’ll stay with my little pen type lancet. When these ppl want me to register to find out how much something like that costs, they are essentially saying ‘If you have to ask,… you can’t afford it.’ Well, to heck with that.
So once those 50 are used up, you have to buy another? Or do they have refill packs? Pretty pretty, but I would like a cure, please 
You buy packs of 100 lancets (two circles, you put one circle into the Pelikan)
and that does cost money.
But, I use it more.
It is a little bigger than my glucose meter - I use the BD and/or Nova Max meter which looks the same.
I thought the same way about the pain of lancing, I am old and can take anything.
However, if I do not have to take it, I will try to avoid it.
Now, it is just as easy to test my sugars.
Understanding your likes, true… but I never found it ‘hard’ to test. I could sit and wonder what they are for a half hour, or find out in five seconds. Methods of finger stickers (Except the barbaric Ulster Scientific Accu-Lance/Guillotine’ style thing in the eighties!! I hated THAT thing!) do not dictate if I test or not.
HOLY CARP! I just got an email from Pelikan. The cost of this puppy is as follows:
Pelikan Sun electronic lancing device - $199.00
Pelikan Sun lancet disks (100 lancets/box) - $14.99
Pelikan Sun lancet disk carrier - $1.99
$200.00 for the device? I think I will stay to my lancet pens I have a house to keep on SSI and Part time employment.
Jenny
Yes, it is very expensive.
But, I have more cents than brains, so —
And though I still tested the old way. this is pretty good.
And I hope I have gotten a few of the kids who do not test to test more.
That was the overriding benefit
I hope to get more kids to test, and then we will see
Steve
I think I will pass on this one!! cost way toooooooooooooo much money for me…
I tried it at my educator’s office and heard it’s possible to get covered on some insurance plans. I’m asking for a prescription and doctor’s letter about why the gizmo would help me test more. Wish me luck!
Just a follow-up note. Device and lancet disks are covered for ongoing use through UnitedHealthcare out of pocket reimbursement, minus my usual copay. Getting a second Pelikan Sun to leave at my desk at work.
http://www.pelikantechnologies.com/customers/ is where to get the info on this.
Testing pre- and post-meal every time now, and seeing better control.
I was lucky enough to try this product at the Diabetes Expo in Seattle.
I’ve gotta say, it truly WAS the least painful lancing device i have ever tried. If i hadn’t seen the blood, i wouldn’t have believed it had worked. If anyone gets the chance to try it, i would highly recommend it. What do you have to loose?
It may be big and bulky and ridiculously expensive, but personally i feel its worth it.
i asked my endo about it and she seemed to have never heard of it before.
i would really love to purchase one, but I’m hesitant because i hope that it drops in price in the next few months
but you never know, i may just give in after another long day of painful testing…
I also saw it the Diabetes Expo in Seattle.
I will also be at the Diabetes Expo in Seattle on the 18th for Apr.
It is still working. I have used it continuously since I got it in May.
I still have to see the blood to know it is working.
It still costs money and I am still testing.
I am also on a CGM that helps.
You can not test enough.
We have the Pelican and it is still in the box. Have been too lazy to put the CD in and there was no other instruction booklet packed with the device. I have been meaning to use it. Now will have to start. P.S. I heard that the first trial version released at CWD, parents kept putting the same disk of lancets back in the device so you could use it more than once. Don’t know if you can do this with the newer version.
The manual is inside the box, at the bottom. Just checked, and it’s also on the web here:
http://www.pelikantechnologies.com/products/downloads/
Pretty cool customer service people, too, if you ever need them. They helped me with my insurance claim.