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[BlueHorizonMedicals]

Which Lancet do you find the best for drawing blood?

[bantam12]

I find the lilac and white one the best, number 5 on your blog.

[Hidden]

Interesting!

The test I ordered from you had the yellow topped one. It worked well enough, but I had to prick two fingers to get enough blood to fill the tube.

When will the new bladed lancet be going out with your kits?

[BlueHorizonMedicals in reply to Hidden]

Hi Gingerbread,

The winning lancets will be popping into the kits as of tomorrow.

(we also like them because they are blue!) 😉

[puncturedbicycle]

Paul it's so great to hear you're constantly refining your methods for a better customer experience.

I think a blade is a great idea. The blue lancet in my last test (about four months ago I think) didn't hurt when I used it and I got a good flow, but my goodness my finger hurt (and eventually itched) like a bee sting the next day and about two days after that.

[BlueHorizonMedicals in reply to puncturedbicycle]

Hi PB,

Yes, they can be a little brutal can't they. No Star Trek tricorder just yet!

Paul.

[puncturedbicycle in reply to BlueHorizonMedicals]

Ah, that's the dream.

[BlueHorizonMedicals in reply to puncturedbicycle]

Although there is a ten million pound prize to develop a Star trek like device and some worthy finalists with some interesting prototypes none of these devices will detect much more than one or two analytes. To test your blood, you need a Lancet!

[puncturedbicycle in reply to BlueHorizonMedicals]

They can deliver vaccination serums through the skin w a puff of air, a patch and a laser pulse, but there is only one way to get stuff out. So near and yet so far.

[SeasideSusie Remembering]

I've always got on well with the larger blue and white one, second from left in the above picture.

[BlueHorizonMedicals in reply to SeasideSusie]

Susie,

You picked the winner!

Paul. ☺

[Greenwall]

I used the blue & white one. It HURT ! ;-( Do you have any that don't hurt?

[BlueHorizonMedicals in reply to Greenwall]

Apologies for the hurty bit. We do find however that the hurtier they are the more effective they are 😉

[Greenwall in reply to BlueHorizonMedicals]

I definitely gushed blood, and only needed one lancet. The bathroom looked like there'd been a massacre...

[MMaud]

As someone who does finger prick tests several times a day for another condition, I would suggest that for those not used to doing such tests, where one uses the pricker is at least as important as which one.

It is generally accepted that using the fleshiest area of the pads, or the tips are most uncomfortable, with the sides or even on the top of the finger, to the side of the nail to be least un-comfortable.

For me, the worst ones for using finger prickers are nurses, in a clinical setting who find the pads easiest for them.

That's my 2p worth.

[SilverAvocado in reply to MMaud]

Thanks MMaud, that is very good information. I do a fingerprick every 6 weeks and don't seem to figure out any of the tricks myself

[helvella Administrator]

What is wrong with the picture?

It is a right-hand - and most people would find it easier to get a sample from their left hands.

[Fruitandnutcase]

Well five fingers and a thumb is what's wrong with the hand.

Think I prefer the blue and white one second from the left.

[BlueHorizonMedicals in reply to Fruitandnutcase]

Well done Fruitandnutcase !

[Angel_of_the_North in reply to Fruitandnutcase]

You got something against polydactylous persons?

[Fruitandnutcase in reply to Angel_of_the_North]

Not at all We used to have a cat with the biggest feet I've ever seen. They were absolutely massive. No matter how many times I counted his toes (and I counted them several times) he still had the normal number of toes for a cat.

[crabapple in reply to Fruitandnutcase]

So not a Hemingway cat, then.

[Angel_of_the_North in reply to Fruitandnutcase]

A friend of mine had a cat which basically had one and half feet on each front paw, but still managed to climb tress and so on.

[Hidden]

They all scare me but I can use my blood glucose testing pen fine weirdly enough. I am just a wuss! I think I got sent the blue ones and couldn't use them...Haha

[Justliloldme]

The blue & white one second form the left was great. The purple one in the middle was next to useless - took 4 goes to get enough blood!

[Fruitandnutcase]

LOL - I have to say for some reason I was happier before I read your blog and discovered the lancet can get through seven sheets of paper. Too much information for me

[Katepots]

I had to break open the yellow lancet container and prick my finger several times to get enough blood, I felt it didn't go deep enough.

Loving the fact you're on here!

Thanks to your company I have pretty much self treated everything that was wrong through private testing (well almost saving for a couple more tests!) and am sooo much better, thanks 😀