I am Christel from Diabetes Strong and this is a quick tutorial on how to change
the cartridge in your InPen so I heard from a few folks
who commented on my full review of the InPen that they wanted a bit of
an up close look at how do you actually change the cartridge
so let's do that, let me show you how to change your cartridge in your InPen
first you want to take off the cap
if there's still a needle on there you want to screw that off and
put that in the shaps container
and then you want to hold the pen with both hands
so I’m holding the colored part of the pen with my left hand,
holding the clear plastic part with my right hand and then I want to twist
this clear plastic part towards myself
so because I’m holding my right hand that would be counterclockwise
so just small twist, like that, it's all it takes and you just pull off
the clear plastic part
then you can take out the insulin cartridge, like that
if that's empty you toss that, keep that don't toss that away,
and now you can see the screw here is all the way out
so the plunger, we want to dial that back and that's a manual process
you simply, again I’m holding it with my right hand, it's counterclockwise
and you see that one the plunger came out, means you're doing it right
so you just want to retract the screw all the way down,
all the way down, all the way down, all the way down,
as far as down you can get,
and then the trick here is you do not want to push the plunger I’ll show you
what happens, so if I push the plunger look what's happened to the screw
it just moves out again right, so what we want to do is again just track the screw
go and then you simply turn the dial again we go and we are ready to reload this insulin pen
and now we're ready to load our in pen with a new cartridge remember
that your InPen only works with the type of insulin that it has been prescribed for
so there is an InPen for Humalog, for Fias, and for Novolog, and this is a Humalog InPen,
that's what I use let me show you how to do that so you basically you take it out of the packaging
is toss this in the trash you want to take the clear plastic part and just plop it into
here so it goes in with the little red end first so you see it fits in there so let's
just put that in there and then you want to hold on to the colored part of your pen
so you simply take these two pieces and then you
here you go you want to find here there's a little piece of plastic here
that fits into a little edge here, so you just want to slide that in, there we go
so you want to push it a little bit and then you want to click it into place
I’m holding the clear part with my right hand so now I want to
slide into place by twisting the clear part of the pen clockwise
so away from me
there you go, okay so let me just show you again, so I push that in
it will fall out, so push it in and then you have to click it into place again
holding the clear plastic part with your right hand
you want to twist away from yourself
there you go, and now your pen is loaded with insulin
next step, of course, you want to put on a needle
and remember to do a few air shots,
so let's just put on a needle
take that off
so here you can see there's already insulin flowing, so I’ll only need to do
one air shot before I start,
but if you do not see insulin flowing
it might be because you haven't really dialed the plunger to the right level
you just do as many air shots as you need
I mean remember, it's air shots
so if there's not insulin coming out it's just air shots
just remember that if you end up doing, let's say three or four air shots
the InPen app will recognize that as insulin injections
and it will store it as such in the app so you have to have to go into the app
turn that around, and change those doses to primes, I’ll show you how to do that
let's open up the InPen app
here we go and then you can click a logbook
and then you find the latest entry, so let's take the 3 units
click on that and then you simply click prime
and here you see it was blue and now it's gray and says “prime”,
and that's how you do that
and that is how you change the cartridge in your InPen
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