Can anyone tell me if there is a difference (other than appearance) between these 2 pens? I can find lots of info on the SoloStar but none on the OptiSet.
V was switched on his Rx and has been using the OptiSet for 3 days - with really wild swings in BG. We are at a total loss here…
I believe that Optiset was launched before Solostar. Hence Optiset pen has a very elaborate guide with it, and also heard from my diabetic nurse, that you are more likely to get bruises with Optiset due to the set up of the pen
Sorry that this irrelevant to your topic, but is V on the pump or not? From your other discussion I thought he was on the pump, but if so I don’t think he should be using Lantus (or any long acting insulin).
No, he’s not on the pump. He started out 8 weeks ago (after the pancreas removal) on a combo of pre-mix (70/30 and 50/50) and Rapid (Novolog) He was switched to the Basal/Bolus approach 3 weeks ago (at our request) so we are still working on understanding it all. They started him in hospital at 8 units of the Lantus and about 50 units per day of the Rapid. It worked for the 2 days he was in the hospital…
It hasn’t since. Now he is at 16 units of Lantus and about 25 of the Rapid…
katie i don’t know if this will help or not. but from all that i’ve gathered, 20 units of lantus is pretty much the average dose for people. of course everyone is different. for instance-i do 20 units of lantus in the evening and anywhere from 32 - 48 units humalog for bolus. the way i understand it is that the basal and the bolus dosage should be about equal.
Sorry I don’t know the difference but just started using the Solostar instead of vial and syringes. I love the Solostar.
sorry
never tried optiset
but solostar works great to me
and with less leaks as i noticed than the other pens i tried
In Europe we use a standard insulin concentration, U 100. Just so long as you have a similar system in your neck of the woods, the only difference between the two pens is one is useable and the other isn’t…
Picture the scene, in a pharmaceutical research facility somewhere… someone is sitting twiddling their thumbs, wondering what they can possibly make soooooo complicated and baffling that it’s bound to confuse folk enough to use it wrongly and they will then be forced to buy more pharmaceutical products to correct the problem… and thus the Optiset was born…
Dosage should be the same from the two units… if you can figure out how the blazers to use the Optiset.
Systems should be designed that they are sooooooooooooooooo simple that you have to be trying to use them wrong… until you meet the, ‘Optiset Krypton Factor Pen’… which whole premise seems to be that if you’ve figured out how to use it, you either invented it or are one of the four smartest people in the world…
The big thing missing from both pens, is a ‘memory’. After being diabetic for awhile it’s not unusual for you to forget if you did or didn’t have an injection…
Still drug companies are in the business of making money, making folk feel better is an unprofitable side effect…
Well… That explains it! We knew it was totally useless… Just couldn’t figure out why!
And, yes. memory would be nice… Just so you know, the French medical system is in collusion with the drug companies…We get enough meds for a cut finger that they even give us a special shopping bag to carry it all. You can imagine what it’s like for anything serious.