Insulin - what would you do if

[mum2westiesGill]

you've been home for a week from hols in Scotland and just relised you've left the insulin you took with you in the rucksack as i've just done 😱? Luckily i've still got insulin which i didn't take in the fridge.

Thanks in advance for any help on this matter.

 

[Doddy]

Isn't it ok as long as you use it within 28 days???

 

[Northerner]

Do you mean you've left it behind in Scotland?

 

[mum2westiesGill]

Isn't it ok as long as you use it within 28 days???

I've brought it home but just forgotten and left in the rucksack for the past week and not in the fridge!

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Stick it in the fridge it will be fine.

 

[Northerner]

I've brought it home but just forgotten and left in the rucksack for the past week and not in the fridge!

As Doddy says, it should be fine out of the fridge for 28 days unless you left the rucksack in high temperatures anywhere. Wait, you did say Scotland didn't you? So it probably didn't get too hot! 😉

 

[trophywench]

I have to say I'm entirely with Sue here.

It's only recently they've been telling us this (I thought?) 30 day baloney. So scared of being sued I expect.

I mean a cartridge of Novo would last me a fortnight anyway so I'd go on a fortnight's camping holiday with a few cartridges or prefilled pens - no fridge, just tried to stick em in the coolest bit of the tent, then come home and stick em back in the fridge. Corfu etc, in the wardrobe for a fortnight (usually the darkest place and not in sunlight) later I had a Frio, so to India - in the wardrobe in the Frio - and back ......

And I ain't dead yet .......

 

[mum2westiesGill]

Wait, you did say Scotland didn't you? So it probably didn't get too hot! 😉

Lol at this!

Thanks for all your replies and help, it's good to know we've all got somewhere to come to for help.

I've calmed down now after my little panic & googled the storage of insulin and also checked on the leaflets in the humalog & lantus packets in the "how to store" sections and both say 28 days / 4 weeks. So back in the fridge it is 🙂.