Eating out

[Lucyr]

Yes, I accept that but I just think that mistakes can still happen and to me there is an element of risk in injecting quick acting insulin immediately before driving with no carbs on board albeit to just correct a high. That is probably just me being overly cautious and is probably less risky than injecting and eating carbs before driving, although I very rarely do that either, but then I have the luxury of not needing to drive at set times like to go to work, so I can plan my driving for when bolus insulin is well spent and my levels are stable. I appreciate that others are not so fortunate.

Not driving within 4 hours of injecting does seem overly cautious, and I think makes the correcting before a meal out irrelevant here as unless it’s a very long meal you presumably would arrange a lift home. That’s fine if it feels most appropriate to you, but for many people they do need to be confident to drive whilst insulin is working, and that their hypo symptoms would prompt them to pull over if they were dropping too low.

 

[trophywench]

Very rare for me to need to correct a high at or just before 7am, when I needed to leave home on weekdays to either drive to the station to catch the 07.30 to B'ham New Street when I worked in the city centre or to get to the end of the A456 before the city centre, in the car, to get to either office for a 9am start. more than enough time to make and enjoy my first coffee - having had tea at home 2 hours earlier, and haven't usually eaten brekkie since before I got married the first time in 1971!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I’m another who would check BG and inject at the table once the food has arrived.

I’ve never had any negative reaction from injecting in public, and in fact the only reaction I can remember was at a seaside cafe where a woman at another table gave me a huge grin and waved her meter at me!

How was the meal @Irismaniac ?

 

[PattiEvans]

I’m another who would check BG and inject at the table once the food has arrived.

I’ve never had any negative reaction from injecting in public, and in fact the only reaction I can remember was at a seaside cafe where a woman at another table gave me a huge grin and waved her meter at me!

How was the meal @Irismaniac ?

I recall a similar incident in a restaurant in Morlaix in France where a chap at the next table pulled his pen out and injected at the same time as myself!

No, when I was on injections I was quite happy to test and inject at the table. I almost always wear trousers or shorts and pulling the waistband down discreetly has never caused anyone nearby to throw their hands up in horror. I'm grateful now on the pump that I don't have to, not even on the odd occasion that I wear a dress, as the handset (meter) talks to the pump.