Does this pen contain the ‘golden dose’?

[JMSA]

Brand new, unused 15mg pen, just arrived from the provider, but I can’t tell if it contains the 5th dose. Wish I’d taken a photo of an old pen to compare!
Your help would be appreciated.

No, I don’t think so. Those pens have cycled out if I’m not mistaken.

No, it has the larger black plunger so definitely no golden dose.

Nope.. new pen there im afraid..

No it's just the 4. You can tell from the black spacer but also from the expiry date, those after 04/27 are generally new style.

Gah, thanks

Excuse me jumping on…. How about this one? It’s my first ever, and I’d assumed I’d missed the holder’s dose bus. Expiry 02/27

@PuzzledObserver that’s an old style pen I think. It doesn’t have the black spacer behind the plunger. Have you done three doses from it?

@PuzzledObserver yes old pen. 4th shot left then the remaining is the extra liquid, so a little more than a dose..

Yes, I have. Well, that’s a bonus! Now I’ll have to look up how to get it out - I have seen instructions in several places, but didn’t pay attention becáis I assumed it was too late

Lucky duck 😁
Where did you buy it from?

I’m pretty strong, and was always able to get the bonus dose by hand, twisting the thingy with a lot of force.
Or you could use pliers or something.

I got it from Curely.

This is what I did on my few pens with a golden dose. I didn't need to buy needles or anything, I just used my bare hands and twisted really hard.

@MoneyJo snap!

Based on other people’s comments, this one of mine also has the golden dose/bonus dose. Expiry 2/27; I’ve already had four doses from it. I’m disinclined to go faffing about with syringes like some people do but am happy to swipe one of my partner’s 4mm needles (she uses the same ones for T1 diabetes) to get the last dose.

The only reason I started “faffing” with syringes is because two pens in a row when I tried to force twist the pen, the whole internal mechanism broke and it was unable to dispense anything. So I got syringes as a back up and then realised that it’s very straightforward to do.

The 2.5 mg pens tend to still be the old style pen in the UK.

Unless you twist the pen without breaking it you'll need a syringe to extract the liquid after four full doses.

Agreed. Way easier with a syringe.