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Lanny said:
Ahah! Just picked up post & there’s a letter & info leaflet about Tresiba from the hospital & it’s the double strength 200 units/ml flexpens I’ll be using so, 78 units once a day is right as that’s actually double that! There’s also a plastic credit card thing to carry on me in my purse with the Tresiba 200 units/ml on it & I fill in my details & bolus insulin as well!

I might as well finish the last couple of LR pens in the opened box this weekend, get the Tresiba on Monday & hand back the unopened box of LR pens so, they can stick another sticker on top of mine for somebody else to use: waste not; want not!
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Lanny, they cannot reissue medication once it has left the pharmacy, even sealed boxes, so it should be destroyed if you return it. If I were you I would use up the LR and then start the Tresiba to reduce waste. I imagine a box won't last you very long so I can't see it making any significant difference, cosidering how long you have been using it.

I find those credit card things a bit superfluous seeing as my basal doses vary so much.... as yours often do too. I have one in the car which I got when I was first diagnosed and I think it says 7 units of Levemir which is now well out of date so I really must remember to remove it and see if there is any way of amending it.
Maybe with the Tresiba there will be less variation for you. Good luck with it!
 
rebrascora said:
Lanny, they cannot reissue medication once it has left the pharmacy, even sealed boxes, so it should be destroyed if you return it. If I were you I would use up the LR and then start the Tresiba to reduce waste. I imagine a box won't last you very long so I can't see it making any significant difference, cosidering how long you have been using it.

I find those credit card things a bit superfluous seeing as my basal doses vary so much.... as yours often do too. I have one in the car which I got when I was first diagnosed and I think it says 7 units of Levemir which is now well out of date so I really must remember to remove it and see if there is any way of amending it.
Maybe with the Tresiba there will be less variation for you. Good luck with it!
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Barbara. I found that when I returned my Humulin M3 pens after I had been changed onto Basal /Bolus regimen. Seemed a waste as they had been kept in the fridge but should they trust my fridge. Probably not! It’s drugs after all.
i decided to let the chemists destroy the pens as it seemed safer than me dumping them. I was concerned that someone may get hold of insulin with catastrophic results.
 
@rayray119 you could always resort to setting alarms for through the night to finger prick, I've been finger pricking throughout the night for a few months (without the need to set alarms though as I don't sleep well) after 10 out of 16 sensors failed on me

@DuncanLord you could have just shot the insulin out of your pens then disposed of the empty pen as you had been doing with the used ones, that's what I did when a box of Novorapid pens got frozen when I was first diagnosed xx
 
Ok! Thanks for that @rebrascora & @DuncanLord 🙂 It’ll take me 6 days to finish all the LR so, I’ll get the prescription on Monday, order another box of Tresiba & that’ll give me a little surplus of the current box I’m using plus another box: I only ever get 1 box of either type of basal or bolus insulin in a prescription & have tried asking for two boxes at a time so, I don’t have to keep ordering a box of LR every week; they won’t do that & I have to see my GP if I need more than 1 box if I’m going away somewhere! I had to do that in 2015 when in HK for 3 months & I was on much less insulin then! With the Tresiba only once a day I could leave it to order once a fortnight instead?
 
@Lanny who have you spoken to about it at your surgery? I know your doses are far higher than most of us Type 1's and recent guidelines showed Type 1's on MDI should have at least 1 months supply of insulin in hand so I'd query that with your surgery xx
 
Been AWOL ….. not been very well. Not covid (yet) but some bug. Levels up in the high teens nearly all week, felt dreadful with a horrific headache and had 3 days off work - managed 1 day and a few hours before been sent home - after 1/2 term holiday as well !!
spoke to DSN at hospital and have adjusted injection sites and things and now back to normal 6.4 this morning.

Hope everyone is ok and well. Takes a while to catch up when you don’t log in for a few days !
 
@Bexlee hope you are feeling much better very soon xx
 
Good morning everyone. A terrible day yesterday. Wife was not well and I have no idea why or what set her off. Whole day ruined. I couldn't eat with the stress and hurt. Still it did my weight control some good !!! 🙂

Unfortunately, in my upset, I forgot to take my hydrocortisone tablets in the evening. Could have been serious but, thankfully, it wasn't.

BG 4.2 this morning.

I think we may be running up to another ruined birthday for me. I haven't had a good one for many years sadly. Still, there are a few days yet and you never know, she may surprise me yet...

I hope you all have a good day today. I hope I do !!!
 
Well, she is still here somewhere so you can all breath a sigh of relief!
4.4 for me this morning but that was after a double dip into the red overnight. Same basal dose as last night (4.5u) when I went high but less bolus for my evening meal and more carbs. In fact I had to have extra carbs to bring my levels up before bed which was probably an indication that things had swung back the other way.

Got my Covid booster booked for tomorrow afternoon so I don't suppose the DF is going to be slinging her hook anytime soon!

@Bexlee So sorry that you have been so poorly and levels chaotic as a result. Hope you are now on the mend. (((HUGS)))
 
6.6 today. Bit dull with a few breaks in the clouds, 9deg atm. Poundbury (Dorchester) today with the little one to show the Christmas display at the garden centre, they really do make a big effort and it's quite magical for the children.
Here's one for the golfing nuts on here.....

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Morning all and 6.2 today. Another lovely day yesterday topped off by being entertained by Andy Abraham’s tribute to Nat King Cole, was great. Went swimming which was a mistake, won’t be doing that again until after my next op lol!!!
Little pic of us by one of the many Christmas trees here, it all looks very festive.
Hope you all have a lovely day xx
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Morning

A shocking 12.7, can only put it down to contraceptive being due on Tuesday and the pain that developed in my back and into my hip throughout yesterday probably caused by the large clunk my lower back gave on Friday night when I moved onto my front in bed! xx
 
Morning all. 5.5 this morning. Yesterday it was low 5s all day until teatime when it shot up to 10 and stayed there! Who knows why

Enjoy your Sunday everyone.
 
Morning all. Think Libre 2 has been sabotaged by the DF ( Barbara, she must have flown west ) on its last few hours. 8.4 it told me, and it seems I’ve been that high all night. Used the ol’ Accu-Chec, 6.4. It done the same last time too.

Glad to report the rain seems to have done one, yesterday was atrocious weather. Today is blustery but dry. Should I chance hanging the bedding out? Other than changing the bed, the only other thing of importance is we’re babysitting tonight, it does mean a forty mile round trip as it’s school tomorrow so can’t stay at ours as they normally do. Eldest daughter and hubby are going to see John Bishop. Funnily enough so is youngest daughter and her hubby but eldest asked first. Baby Zara going to other grandparents, she’s having her first sleepover!

Have a great day everyone, if you’re able.🙂
@SueEK great photo. Was Andy Abrahams on XFactor/Pop Idol years ago?
 
7.5 this morning, hmmm, am thinking it could have been the butternut squash noodles I tried for first time yesterday evening, plus some added stress I'm going through. Got to go for a blood test tomorrow morning to check for heart failure - yep, added stress for sure :(
Also on a week of checking my BP day and night as it has gone through the roof, logging it to show Dr next Thursday, think I'm just falling apart. Sigh
 
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