Quick ? regarding disposal of lancets

[mkeymse]

I have my monitor and have been too afraid to stick myself but I know I have to start monitoring for low blood sugar. Anyway, while I was standing staring at the needle, I started to wonder. What do you all do with the lancets? Do you have a sharps container, and if you do, how do you dispose of that? If you have to check while you are at work,what do you do with the lancet when you are done?

[squidge63]

I have a sharps bin which I use for my needles and lancets. If you are the only one using your machine and finger pricker, I was told by the diabetic nurse that you don't have to change it everytime you check your sugar levels.. if I did that I would go through lancets like wildfire. I probably don't change it as often as I should, but I generally find that it will hurt more then I know I need a new one.
You can buy a sharps bin in walmart, any pharmacy I would imagine would seel them. I think some hospitals sell them as well and you take the full one to them and get a replacement, I think that is what I was told. I am actually in the UK and I just give my sharps bin to my best friend who disposes of it at the hospital where she works.

[LaurAnnHere]

I was tought to put them in a coke bottle. I also put the caps back on them when I'm finished.

[Mazarin]

I wonder this also.... my mum has a sharps bin as she is on insulin but was actually given it when she started to inject epo every week.

I wonder at work what is the best thing to do with them...

[rajuncajun9320]

I would probably bring some foil and a baggie with me. When you get done just wrap in a small piece of foil and put it in the baggie in your purse and through it away when you get home. That is all that I could think of. Sorry if it sounds weird.

[dreamchaser]

i washed out a milk jug and use that and also put my needles in when i took shots the last 5 mo's of my pg last yr sometime up to 4-5 shots a day and this thing is still holding my lancets once its full i have to take it to our ambulance service they get rid of them somewhere.......