I am as chicken-little as everyone else. I never use the click devise! Hate the element of surprise as to when it’s gonna stab me.
I’ve been using BD Ultra-Fine 33 gauge lancets. They are cheap and a box of 100 lasts me well over a year. I love how the pull-off cap goes right back in place for use over and over.
You’re kinda new to all this. I know you’ll get used to it soon. also use the sides of the fingers, preferably. I personally never use my index fingers or thumbs.
true, it’s been less than a year. I figured out something that works, so I guess that’s good enough 
The question is, David, what risqué item were YOU thinking of?
Nice deflection. 
I agree, never use your index fingers or thumbs. That’s one of the first things they taught me in hospital and indeed touching something can be painful when you use your thumbs and index fingers.
Everyone’s different. I use all ten fingers and don’t experience any significant difference, except that one finger on each hand bleeds much more readily than the other four.
I think my current box of lancets dates to when I was still on R/NPH. The one I’m currently using started about six months ago when I lost my BG meter and had to buy a new one. Other than that, I’m a proud member of the Once-A-Year (if that) club.
Have the black one also of the Multiclix. Best lancet device going. I have a Fastclix also but never bothered getting any lancets for it (sadly takes a different cartridge) as find it much less polished design.
The Multiclix is more solid in build quality and the trigger/reset mechanism is fractionally faster, and easier to reset when on a bike.
Only issue I have with the Multiclix at the moment is it can get hard to get new lancets and have had to wait a couple of months for them. Not a huge problem with lancets, but seems they aren’t making the lancets in the quantities they used to and are asking more often to move to the Fastclix sadly.
Used to do that myself. The small BD needles were great for that, but it seriously irritated the DSN I had at the time.
I use the One Touch Delica lancets. They are very comfortable. I’ve had the same one since 2012, no loss of spring. I have found that the needles get dull to the point where they don’t work much more quickly than whatever the old ones were called.
I had an inserter for the Medtronic “Sof”-Sensor, aka. the harpoon, that got sprung. That was not a needle to mess around with so I got a new one!
Yep, I use the Multiclix and my test kit one-handed all the time. It’s very easy.
Yikes. Maybe I should stock up if this is at risk of being discontinued… I’m also calling Accu-Chek today to get a backup Softclix for my emergency kit (I have a meter in there but no lancing device), so I may see if I can get another Multiclix as well.
I use all fingers and thumbs with no issues. Has never caused me any problems. I have so many Multiclix drums I wonder if I will ever run out. I stocked up early on when they said to change for every finger stick. Now I change when I think about it.
I also use all my fingers and I poke my finger tips! I know you’re supposed to use the side, but this is where my parents started doing it when I was diagnosed and I have some pretty nice callouses built up.
I use an Accu-Chek Softclix, had it about 5 years and it’s still going strong. It uses a different lancet that doesn’t sting quite as much. I generally change lancet’s when I feel guilty, maybe a couple times a year.
I don’t know about “wear out”.
I have never used the fancy carrying cases that come with meters and lancets. I just jam them in shirt and/or pants pocket. (At least, for the past couple decades, the ones before then were too big to fit in a pocket!)
Because of the physical abuse they get in my pockets, they don’t “wear out”, they generally “get destroyed”. Anywhere from a few days to a years.
The guillotine-style Autolet circa 1980 was nigh-indestructible but eventually I broke all the “platforms” (officially you were supposed to put in a new platform every test, hah!) I got back then and had to give up on it in the 1990’s. I had to take the autolet apart every few years and clean the insides, as crud built up inside it.
Some of the skinny long ones made by BD in the 1990’s… were really lightweight and super likely to get destroyed.
Sometimes I can take the pieces from two “destroyed” ones and put them together to make one “working” one. I have a shelf in the basement of lancet devices in varying stages of destruction.
Sometimes debris from my pocket jams in the moving part of the spring-loaded mechanism. Depending on the model I can sometimes pop it open and unjam it, but other times when this happens they are beyond hope.
Many people here seem to have responded in general, about their devices, not the specific brand/model you asked about.
In my experience, the Microlet 2 is indeed horrible and the internal spring loosens to the point of making it really uncomfortable to use every 6-12 months. I used OneTouch for the five years before I had to switch to the Bayer Contour Next (because it communicates with my pump) and never once had that lancing device (or any other part) malfunction. So if I hadn’t switched and someone asked me about flimsy lancing devices, I would have also told them I didn’t know what they were talking about.
The only saving grace is that Bayer seems to be aware of the poor product they are offering and have replaced each piece as it breaks with a new one promptly and with hardly any hassle. (They do ask you to fill out a questionnaire describing the problem and to mail them in a postage prepaid envelope the broken item when you receive the new device.)
lol i do that to, i think i have a lot of callouses, to many,.
I have been using an Accu-Chek Softclix lancing device for about 8 years. How fast they wear out I am sure is a factor of how often you test and how heavy of a setting you use. I get blood quite easily and so my setting is usually at 1 or 1.5. I swap out the lancet about twice a week. When you don’t change the lancet every test you can plan to swap it when you are at home with access to your sharps disposal.
I have looked at the Microlet 2 lancing device which has come with the last couple of meters I have used. Although a smaller slightly smaller footprint I didn’t like using it. For starters it is the square peg in a round hole routine. The lancet doesn’t snap into place in the device the way the Softclix lancet does and it would twist in the socket after you install it… When I try to remove the safety cap it seems like the lancet pulls slightly out of the socket and so I never felt like I received a consistent poke.
Well, I wanted to know both. How long lancing devices last in general and whether people have the same problems with the Microlet. Thanks for your response! I see that I’m not the only one having problems with the Microlet.