T1DIOT week

[martindt1606]

Apologies to those on the forum that are not Type 1, but do we need weekly recognition not just of the heroes but also the idiots.

I'd suggest the Type 1 Diabetic Idiot Of The (TIDIOT) Week Award -with self nomination.

To kick off here's my nomination:

Last night making pizza for dinner I looked at the pizza base label which gave carbs per 100g and the total content weight was 350g. I calculated my carb points and thought that cannot be right I've never injected so much novo rapid. I made the pizzas and still concerned at my calculation I recalculated and got the same number. Whilst pizzas were cooking I checked back on my log book and couldn't find a similar carb count when we had previously had the same meal. When the pizza was ready I calculated a 3rd time got the same carbs and therefore injected on this basis. An hour later whilst watching andy Murray I'm starting to feel sweaty, my eyes are losing focus, and I suddenly think THERE WERE TWO PIZZA BASES IN THE PACK - **** Ive injected a double dose of Quick Acting, there was an upside ice cream and a bottle of alcohol free beer, but I nominate myself for the inaugural TIDIOT award.

 

[Northerner]

What a T1DIOT! 😉

I haven't done that, but probably my low point in skilful BG management was when I injected insulin for my meal, then became distracted until I started to get symptoms. At that point I couldn't actually just go and have my meal as planned as it would act far too slowly to bring my levels back up again, so had to stuff myself with jelly babies instead! 🙄

I suspect we have quite a few candidates for the award who have injected the wrong insulin...😱

 

[Monica]

I'd like to include myself in this by proxy, as I am the one carb counting most meals.
I can't remember what meal it was, but I have calculated wrong and Carol ended up having to eat lots of glucose, as she was hypo already and wouldn't come back up.
I've also gone the wrong way by not calculating enough, so Carol ended up having to inject some more. Now on the pump, that's not too bad

 

[m1dnc]

What a T1DIOT! 😉

I suspect we have quite a few candidates for the award who have injected the wrong insulin...😱

Yep! Done that. 34u of Humalog at bedtime instead of Lantus makes for a very unpleasant night I can tell you.

Now that I'm pumping, at least I can't do that again, but I'm sure I can find something else just as idiotic.

 

[Aoife]

I wish to nominate myself as T1DIOT of the week.

I had a rare night out on the sauce last night, I am not normally a drink to excess person! I don't remember getting home or going to bed, this morning I wake up covered in lucozade in a bed full of jelly babies with a blood glucose a scary 23! I appear to have checked my glucose before going to sleep/passing out and it was 4.8, no idea if I attempted to treat this or if I went hypo in the night.
Vodka = bad!

(Hi btw, long time lurker, first time poster 🙂 )

 

[Northerner]

I wish to nominate myself as T1DIOT of the week.

I had a rare night out on the sauce last night, I am not normally a drink to excess person! I don't remember getting home or going to bed, this morning I wake up covered in lucozade in a bed full of jelly babies with a blood glucose a scary 23! I appear to have checked my glucose before going to sleep/passing out and it was 4.8, no idea if I attempted to treat this or if I went hypo in the night.
Vodka = bad!

(Hi btw, long time lurker, first time poster 🙂 )

Tut! 😱 Welcome to the forum Aoife!

 

[trophywench]

I dread doing that Aolfe, as I'd be the one doing the laundry......

Last Weds, daughter and her family arrived unexpectedly. She had a shoulder op on Monday and they'd wrapped it up with so much sticky tape, the adhesive was melting in the heat, her neck was sticking to itself, her arm was sticking to her ribs, her hair was getting caught up - SiL had tried to get some of it off but she was hurting so much she made him bring her over so her step-mummy (who is very gentle with such things) could sort her out. So being as tea for two wouldn't exactly extend to 6 and a toddler - we all had tea from the chippy. So I test and I'm 4.1. Well that's OK probably, quick guesstimate, deliver bolus. Ate me tea we all had a drink then we said come on then, let's do the deed.

I'm halfway through this complex and lengthy procedure involving surgical spirit and small victories - when I'm like mega hypo. Fatty meal and all me bolus upfront. Half a bottle of Lucozade later and after her papa had attempted to do his famous rip it off in one go and it will hurt far less manoevre, despite Being Told - she's 40, built like a brick outhouse and she squealed like a stuck pig - don't think he's ever heard her do such a thing either, he looked shocked. Bloody good thing too. Hardly surpising really when the side of her boob was firmly attached to her armpit and any loose skin was glued in various pleats. And that, folks, was courtesy of BUPA .....

So we got it done and then mummy had to give her a bath and wash her hair, we laughed a lot and toddler was complaining, turn a bath tap on anywhere, and he's got his kit off ready .....

And only when we'd finished did I realise I hadn't even tested again after the 2.6 .......

Ah well. 40th Diaversay very soon; we never learn do we?

 

[Ellie Jones]

I've been pretty lucky on the insulin front, never injected the wrong insulin, and miss calculations been minor ones....

So my main plonker moment was quite a few years ago now back in the late 90's...

And I was on the old 2 injections a day regime😡 I found to my delight in the supermarket, started to sale diet Dandelion and Burdock, hadn't had any in years since childhood... In my delight and haste in grabbing a bottle, I didn't take notice that they were stack along side the full fat version😱

It sat in my fridge cooling off until the evening, I had a glass before toddling off to bed, woke up in the night needing the loo and thirsty... So off to the loo, and down stairs to quench said first with a slug or two of D&B, back to bed an hour or so later repeat performance, loo downstairs slug or two of D&B and several more during the night😱

It didn't dawn on me until, I dragged myself out of bed for work what I had actually done picked up the full fat version, so with high BG's and a desperate need to go for a wee, I faced a rather daunting 16 miles drive to work, 3 sets of traffic light in my town, and hoping that luck was on my side through 'light ally' in the town I worked in,which is a stretch of road, that within just under a half mile, their are 8 sets of traffic lights... Get into work, where I would not only have to get through 3 key coded door locks, but also shut off the alarm system (I was always first in) I decided wisdom depicted taking spare cloths with me, was wise...

I was know after that as Miss Piddle, due to the amount of times I ended needing the loo, during my shift😱

 

[Phil65]

Yep! Done that. 34u of Humalog at bedtime instead of Lantus makes for a very unpleasant night I can tell you.

Now that I'm pumping, at least I can't do that again, but I'm sure I can find something else just as idiotic.

ha,ha ....same!...I've done that before...hoorah for the pump!

 

[robofski]

I keep the Blue pen and Red pen in different palces in the hope of avoiding the wrong insulin injection, working so far but it's early days, by the sounds of it I can expect to do it at some stage 😱

 

[Northerner]

I've done the thing where I inject for my food then instantly forget whether I've injected or not. Then I wonder if I should inject or not, possibly doubling up the dose 😱

 

[robofski]

I've done the thing where I inject for my food then instantly forget whether I've injected or not. Then I wonder if I should inject or not, possibly doubling up the dose 😱

Did you not get yourself a Novopen Echo, no such worries then a quick pull/push and you see how much and when you last injected! 🙂

 

[Northerner]

Did you not get yourself a Novopen Echo, no such worries then a quick pull/push and you see how much and when you last injected! 🙂

I keep meaning to ask for one! Still using a novopen 3! 🙂 Might ask my GP to prescribe an echo when I see her this week 🙂

 

[Phil65]

I've done the thing where I inject for my food then instantly forget whether I've injected or not. Then I wonder if I should inject or not, possibly doubling up the dose 😱

....one of my dislikes when I was on MDI Alan.

 

[Casper]

I keep the Blue pen and Red pen in different palces in the hope of avoiding the wrong insulin injection, working so far but it's early days, by the sounds of it I can expect to do it at some stage 😱

I keep my insulatard in blue echo, and novorapid in the red echo - however I do take the red upstairs with my meter at bedtime - during one nighttime hypo I woke to find myself trying to inject novorapid 😱😱😱 Duh!

 

[Monica]

Injecting Rapid instead of Levemir makes Carol the ******
Despite the Rapid being in a RED pen and the Levemir in a silver one, she still injected Rapid at bedtime. Luckily, I noticed while she was doing it, so we managed to avoid going hypo. After that she had the Levemir in her bedroom and that mistake was never repeated.