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Occasional pain when injecting

OldBuzzard said:
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.
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Your current pen & insulin doesn’t need to be kept in the fridge - it’s fine at normal room temperature for 28 days.
 
JJay said:
Your current pen & insulin doesn’t need to be kept in the fridge - it’s fine at normal room temperature for 28 days.
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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.
 
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.
 
JJay said:
Your current pen & insulin doesn’t need to be kept in the fridge - it’s fine at normal room temperature for 28 days.
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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.​
 
OldBuzzard said:
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.​
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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.
 
helli said:
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.
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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.
 
OldBuzzard said:
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.​
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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
 
OldBuzzard said:
Hiya rebrascora

Many, many thanks for telling me about Lucyr - I was totally unaware. And sadly this site offers no more identifying features of the members than their name, locality, affliction and sex.

So far as I was concerned, that person was merely a rather unpleasantly bitchy young lady whereas the truth is almost certainly far from that.

So to you Lucyr I offer my unreserved apologies for some of the replies that I've made to your comments. Had I known of your own dllemma I'd have treated you much more as a young lady should be treated - with respect and love.
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Regardless of what Lucyr may have said, it's no excuse for using a sexist insult.
 
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OldBuzzard said:
Ahh - perhaps that's what makes the difference. Your diabetes was more or less forced upon you whereas mine is self-inflicted.

No, you've been factually correct, it's just been the way it's been presented at times that has caused me to perhaps feel offended. I'm afraid that I've met far too many people in my 80 years who have indeed been totally bitchy, just for the sake of being bitchy. And so you too might well have fallen out of that kind of category for all I could tell from my early sightings.

However, it would appear that I'm wrong so assuming that neither of us snipe or snap at the other from now on, then I'm happy to behave normally anyway.
Over to you then!
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I'm assuming that the people whom you describe as having been "bitchy" are/were women? Perhaps there's something for you to reflect on about that.
 

CliffH​

Obviously I'm not wanted here.
So I'm off - I'll cancel my membership - easy.
Also, there have been over 80 comments here that have evolved and revolved without too much trouble.
A certain member clarified my errors - but now you're here and trying to stir trouble. Why?
Just so you can have your say without contributing at all to the theme of this thread.
Troublemaker, aren't you?
 
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