Occasional pain when injecting

[JJay]

Hi nonethewiser
Thank heavens that the current guide says to keep your insulin in the fridge but to take it out at least 30 minutes before use. Guess that's been the rule for ages.

Also, thank heavens, I've only been offered and used BD needles. Ones nowadays are brilliantly sharp - they slide in with no catch at all and at just 4mm they're tiny! Totally painless 99% of the time - except for the rare instances this thread is all about.
I do sympathise with you people who had to put up with larger and less efficient needles - it must have been some kind of purgatory to know that you had to inject but that it was going to drag and probably cause pain too.

Your current pen & insulin doesn’t need to be kept in the fridge - it’s fine at normal room temperature for 28 days.

 

[helli]

Your current pen & insulin doesn’t need to be kept in the fridge - it’s fine at normal room temperature for 28 days.

I second this. It would be inconvenient to drag a fridge around with you everywhere you go and not ideal to remember to get your pen out of the fridge 30 minutes before you need to pre-bolus for your meals (it's hard enough for me to remember to pre-bolus).
Insulin is pretty resilient nowadays and can survive fine out of the fridge. I think there have been studies that show it can survive for longer than 4 weeks ... but not something I want to try.

 

[Lisa65]

I keep the current pens out of the fridge, a pen of basal lasts me about 12 days and a pen of rapid lasts forever, so I throw away what's left in that after about a month. It would probably last longer but I wouldn't want to try.

 

[OldBuzzard]

Your current pen & insulin doesn’t need to be kept in the fridge - it’s fine at normal room temperature for 28 days.

Actually - on the prescription form adhered to my pack of 5 Humulin pre-filled KwikPens, it says:

Store in a refrigerator (2 to 8 deg. C). Do not freeze.​

 

[helli]

Actually - on the prescription form adhered to my pack of 5 Humulin pre-filled KwikPens, it says:

Store in a refrigerator (2 to 8 deg. C). Do not freeze.​

I think all insulin are the same and this refers to insulin not in use.
Once you have started a pen, it is in use and it can remain out of the fridge for 4 weeks at room temperature.

 

[OldBuzzard]

I think all insulin are the same and this refers to insulin not in use.
Once you have started a pen, it is in use and it can remain out of the fridge for 4 weeks at room temperature.

Oh, yes, I agree with that - that's what it tells me.
And yes, I now realise that you all were referring to the current pen, not your stock. Sorry.

 

[Lucyr]

Actually - on the prescription form adhered to my pack of 5 Humulin pre-filled KwikPens, it says:

Store in a refrigerator (2 to 8 deg. C). Do not freeze.​

That is referring to the unopened box. Read the leaflet in that box and it will tell you to store the in use pens at room temperature