Remembering injections..

[Music&InsulinSavedMyLife]

How do you guys remember your injections?

I'm on Lantus once a day which I have an alarm for

But the one I feel a problem to remember is NovoRapid, as I take it with meals, I tend to forget them, and its not really something I can put an alarm on for!

My sugars starting to get a bit erratic fro the odd forgotten injection

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I always always injected before eating on MDI (either immediately before, or with a gap between injecting and eating to give the insulin a head start).

There was a very brief period, before I had discovered basal testing where I tried to inject after meals if I was at low end of range before meal (looking back now I k ow that my basal would have been too high at the time) but that was a complete nightmare because I kept forgetting, and occasionally double-dosed 😱

You could use a timesulin cap, or a novopen echo which can tell you whether you have injected recently or not, but my suggestion would be to always inject before starting to eat.

 

[Northerner]

I'm with Mike - I have always injected before eating, so meal coming up, inject appropriate dose for what I'm going to eat, prepare meal and eat (I usually give 15-30 minutes for insulin to get working but this can vary from person to person so always do this cautiously when trying initially). I think the only time I forgot to inject before a meal was on a forum meet when I was distracted, my food arrived and I began eating before realising I hadn't injected. Once you have the habit it's difficult to do one (eat) without the other (inject!) 🙂

 

[Lauras87]

I'm on split dose of my glargine, it's 9pm for the first lot & 7.30am for the second lot (I can't do it at work as I don't know when I'd A- have a break & B - remember.
My novo is done before I eat, generally after I check my BG

 

[Vix]

I tend to do my humalog after I eat because then I know exactly how much I've eaten and the foods I eat tend to take longer to digest so find this works best for me... but the only way I can make certain I remember (there used to be times when i'd do it and then forget whether I had so daren't do it again incase double dosed so got very complicated) so what I do now is automatically write in my BM diary how much insulin I have done when I've injected... now I'm in the habit I know that if I haven't written it down and don't remember doing it then I'm 95% certain that I forgot my injection but that rarely happens now.

Hope you find something that works for you 🙂

xx

 

[Caroline]

Not injecting but I do have to set reminders to take pills, especially as I like to leave a little time after eating before I take them.

 

[megga]

I used to be the same, and then a bit later i could not remember if i had taken it, so a few very bad hypos and some sky rocketing b/s as well.
One thing i would say is testing the taking. And to help with this, i had loads of meters, this is not the ideal situation, but its better that forgetting. So here is what a very forgetfull person would do.

Morning, all my pills and Glargine in the same place as the coffee, so i would remember them.

Breakfast, a meter in the same place as my breakfast (normaly the breadbin)

Lunch, my lunch box contained a b/s monitor

Dinner, my family would remind me to take it.

But now its just inbuilt in me, i got that used to it all that second nature, still the od slip ups now and again, but very rare.
I still keep my monitors all over as i have
1 in my van
2 spare in the cupboard
1 in my bedside draw
1 in the bag of my push bike
1 in my garage

And i never need to use them, the battery has gone in two of them, but thet serve as a reminder, and i think its a comfort thing