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Injected wrong insulin - oops!

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Hey all,

So I discovered on Saturday night that the perfect excuse to drink full fat coke and eat Jammy Dodgers is to inject NovoRapid rather than Levemir by accident at 11.30pm!!!

OPS!!!!

Thank god i only inject 7 units of levemir all night and it wasn't my unusal 22 units during the day or i'd have had some serious issues 😱

Anyone else ever done this?!

Hope everyone is having a great day 🙂
 
Yes, and quite a few others have done this in the past too! Glad to hear you were OK and noticed your mistake - and that it wasn't the bigger dose! 😱 🙂
 
Its a thing i have not done but have had the needle in me & seen the different colour pen 😱 Pleased u ok. 🙂
 
Oops!

You aren't the first... And you won't be the last.

Amazing isn't it that something so 'medical' and unusual for most people can become so completely automatic!
 
Agreed - it seems crazy to me now that i'm so used to sticking needles into me I could go on such an autopilot...
Realised as I was taking the needle off the pen - then it was a complete "oh c**p" followed by i'm really not hungry!

Kind of want to say i'm glad i'm not the only one but in the same respect hope if anyone else does that they notice quickly.

Did some scary math today - in the last 18 months I must have stabbed my fingers over 4000 times and injected about 2500! So in theory when you do those figures injecting once with the wrong insulin isn't actually that bad 😛

On the plus side have discovered I can laugh about diabetes now as an annoying turn of events rather than it being a disaster :D
 
Yes, have done this myself. Took NR instead of my levemir.

Like you say, good excuse to eat biscuits though 😉
 
I've done it and like you was very glad my basal list so low. I had choc hob nobs to soak it up. Almost worth it
 
I've done it the other way around when I was injecting large amounts of Novo. Fortunately it was a bit of a damp squid!
 
I have done this also! But injected 21 units of Novorapid! Scariest/hardest few hours of my life, fighting the fall in blood sugar! But managed to keep it up (despite being sick, panicking and having bouts of shivering/boiling) and escaped having to go to hospital! One mistake I'll never make again! xxx
 
As you say Grainger the stats on getting it wrong are high. The thing i keep doing is remeberig what my blood test has just been. Lots of numbers ??? At least 5/7 a day. Pump does a lot of work calculating how much insulin. & i trust it now after a few years 😎
 
Eeeek no way!!

That's such a split too of Levemir - 7u and 22u night and daytime! Did the basal tests you do help a lot then to get your doses more well matched?
 
grainger said:
Hey all,


Anyone else ever done this?!
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Yes, everybody, because if they never have yet, some day - they will !

Laura - no it ain't, I regularly took Levemir 15u morning and either 4 or 5u at night. In truth it turns out after I started pumping my basal requirement is not all THAT different all day/night, but of course, who knows how long Levemir or any other kind of long acting insulin, lasts a person?
 
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Hey Laura,

There was a lot of experimentation to get to my split to be honest, but mainly I think my honeymoon period ended (I was on 9u and 5u only two months ago 😱).

Experimentation is the key I think these days!
 
Your far from alone with this. I have a vivid memory from several years back of injecting over 20 U of NovoRapid when I should have taken Lantus. By the time I'd eaten enough carbs to offset it I was feeling very, very full. I managed to make it without hypoing though!

...Is hypoing a word? It should be 🙂
 
Atanaa said:
Your far from alone with this. I have a vivid memory from several years back of injecting over 20 U of NovoRapid when I should have taken Lantus. By the time I'd eaten enough carbs to offset it I was feeling very, very full. I managed to make it without hypoing though!

...Is hypoing a word? It should be 🙂
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It most certainly is! 🙂 Welcome to the forum Atanaa 🙂
 
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I have been scared on many occasions that I have injected with the wrong pen why cant we as older diabetics have the same as younger ones a pen that tells you the last amount and when I asked my doctor for this and he said I couldn't have it so every morning my husband has to watch what im doing older diabetic
 
linda metcalfe said:
I have been scared on many occasions that I have injected with the wrong pen why cant we as older diabetics have the same as younger ones a pen that tells you the last amount and when I asked my doctor for this and he said I couldn't have it so every morning my husband has to watch what im doing older diabetic
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What insulin are you on and what type of pens do you use Linda? There are a couple of devices n the market now that you can attach to pens that will give you information about your last injection:

http://timesulin.com/shop/

If you use levemir or novorapid you can get a novopen echo. Why won't your doctor prescribe you a pen?
 
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