Given jip for injecting?

[louisew]

I'm slightly worried because I'm flying to Turkey in a couple of weeks and my insulin will be due mid flight. I've got a window seat so I guess I can just turn away from the person next to me to do it, but I'm wondering if I should mention it first, so they don't think I'm a drug addict or something?
I don't really want to go to a disgusting aeroplane toilet to inject.

Absolutely don’t need to go into toilet, and it’s easy enough to inject discreetly. And you don’t need to say anything, unless you want to.

 

[Tdm]

I do wonder if ozempic is going to mean the general public gets morefamiliar with seeing pens, and used to the idea of injecting being ok?

 

[trophywench]

Isn't Ozempic a once a week jab, in which case why would you even bring it out of the house?

 

[rebrascora]

Isn't Ozempic a once a week jab, in which case why would you even bring it out of the house?

I think @Tdm means because more people are injecting, and therefore become familiar.... perhaps along with family members too, with medical injector pens and also these drugs are very high profile, so lots of social media about them making more people aware of injecting medication.

 

[helli]

Isn't Ozempic a once a week jab, in which case why would you even bring it out of the house?

That's what I was thinking.
Maybe more people become aware of injectors like insulin pens.
However, will the number of people "publicly" (as in raising awareness) taking Ozempic be more than the number of people publicly taking insulin.
I would expect Ozempic-takers to be at least as private if not more so than insulin-takers, even within their families and close friends.

 

[Lisa65]

Absolutely don’t need to go into toilet, and it’s easy enough to inject discreetly. And you don’t need to say anything, unless you want to.

Flight is tomorrow and I intend to inject in my seat without a fanfare

 

[helli]

Flight is tomorrow and I intend to inject in my seat without a fanfare

Enjoy Turkey.

 

[Tezzz]

I'm slightly worried because I'm flying to Turkey in a couple of weeks and my insulin will be due mid flight. I've got a window seat so I guess I can just turn away from the person next to me to do it, but I'm wondering if I should mention it first, so they don't think I'm a drug addict or something?
I don't really want to go to a disgusting aeroplane toilet to inject.

When I fly I tell the cabin crew and ask for their sharps box. They are really helpful and won't make you use the toilet. One flight I had a young child next to me. I asked the steward and he let me do my injection in the galley.

 

[helli]

When I fly I tell the cabin crew and ask for their sharps box. They are really helpful and won't make you use the toilet. One flight I had a young child next to me. I asked the steward and he let me do my injection in the galley.

Do you not carry something to store your sharps when you go away?
I use a "cosmetics bottle" so can remain independent and private when injecting in public I decant into my sharps bin when I get home.

 

[Lucyr]

When I fly I tell the cabin crew and ask for their sharps box. They are really helpful and won't make you use the toilet. One flight I had a young child next to me. I asked the steward and he let me do my injection in the galley.

That seems a bizarre approach. If a small child next to me id say to the adult with them something just to let them know im going to do my medication which is injected, if they could just watch their child doesn’t come too close for a moment. Id put my used sharps in my little screw on tub that lives in my diabetes kit, it’s one of those tiny round pots you’d use for dips or something. No need to involve cabin crew whatsoever.

 

[Tdm]

Depends on the kid and the parent...some are unpredictable and start screaming for no reason...and that's just the parents

 

[Lucyr]

Depends on the kid and the parent...some are unpredictable and start screaming for no reason...and that's just the parents

Can’t see why screaming means you can’t inject. If you’ve told the parent to make sure they don’t get in the way they’ll be holding them.

 

[Tezzz]

That seems a bizarre approach. If a small child next to me id say to the adult with them something just to let them know im going to do my medication which is injected, if they could just watch their child doesn’t come too close for a moment. Id put my used sharps in my little screw on tub that lives in my diabetes kit, it’s one of those tiny round pots you’d use for dips or something. No need to involve cabin crew whatsoever.

I did not speak the child’s or parents language so it was easier to ask the cabin crew nicely.

 

[Tezzz]

Do you not carry something to store your sharps when you go away?
I use a "cosmetics bottle" so can remain independent and private when injecting in public I decant into my sharps bin when I get home.

My sharps bin was in the hold luggage as instructed by the airline who said the crew have sharps bins for this reason.

 

[helli]

My sharps bin was in the hold luggage as instructed by the airline who said the crew have sharps bins for this reason.

I am not asking about "official" sharps bottles. What do you do with your sharps when you are not at home e.g. when you go out for meals? Restaurants are unlikely to have a sharps bin. And, if you are flying with only hands luggage, you cannot rely on others to have them.
I am surprised you do not have a small bottle that fits with your diabetes kit for such occasions.
I use one of the bottles from a set like this for such purpose and decant it into my yellow bin when I get home.

 

[Lucyr]

I am surprised you do not have a small bottle that fits with your diabetes kit for such occasions.

I’d have thought every household has some kind of small Tupperware tub or empty water bottle or something that can be used. I use an empty dressings pot in my diabetes kit as that fits the few needles you’d be using on a single day, but use a slightly larger pot with screw on lid, originally from a moisturiser I think, for holidays. Everyone will most likely have something they can repurpose and not need to ask cabinet crew or restaurants for a sharps bin!

 

[JJay]

I’d have thought every household has some kind of small Tupperware tub or empty water bottle or something that can be used. I use an empty dressings pot in my diabetes kit as that fits the few needles you’d be using on a single day, but use a slightly larger pot with screw on lid, originally from a moisturiser I think, for holidays. Everyone will most likely have something they can repurpose and not need to ask cabinet crew or restaurants for a sharps bin!

Anyone who feels the need for a "proper" sharps bin while travelling could always get something like this
Mini Sharps Bins

I have 3 similar ones which I decant into my big bin when I get home

 

[helli]

Anyone who feels the need for a "proper" sharps bin while travelling could always get something like this
Mini Sharps Bins

I have 3 similar ones which I decant into my big bin when I get home

These look useful but more expensive than generic containers.
Like diabetes bags/cases, I think adding a medical condition to the name of something is like telling a catering business you are planning a wedding. You get a good service but for inflated prices.

 

[Lucyr]

I have 3 similar ones which I decant into my big bin when I get home

They don’t look designed to empty the needles out of them to decant into a big sharps bin and reuse?

 

[JJay]

They don’t look designed to empty the needles out of them to decant into a big sharps bin and reuse?

These aren’t my actual ones but I couldn’t find those, though I did get them from Amazon some time ago. Mine shake pretty easily into the bin with the odd encouraging tap on the side!