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If you open a new insulin (vial or pen) and see a “bubble,” what are your next steps?
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“Flick” it – like you do with a syringe you’ve just filled. And use. If the seal is intact, I don’t worry about it.
Tip the pen upside-down and tap it until the bubble moves away from the needle end. Use it normally though you may need to move the bubble away from the needle end each use.
While I haven’t had any pens arrive with an air bubble. I have had them develop a 1/8″ bubble almost immediately. No idea why as I always prime immediately after attaching pen tip and complete injection and remove the pen tip succinctly.
Bubble is not issue since I will excavating all bubbles before I fill my pump cartridge
There’s always air in vials and a pen you just point up and flick with finger till at top and push/ press till it’s removed like regular syringe.
Has never happened to me in the last 57 years.
I’m a bit confused. I always see a bubble in my insulin pens–I’ve always assumed that’s just how they come from the factory. If you hold the thing more or less upright when you inject it’s not going to affect your dose. As for vials, there’s always a void at the top even before you open a new one, and you have to inject a corresponding amount of air into the vial in order to pull any into your syringe. What am I missing?
I use as normal after purging the bubble. Same procedure if bubbles appear in infusion tubing. When I have contacted the manufacturer of the cartridges in the past they effectively said it was not their problem.