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Naomi Key

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Sorry just to jump in with a question on my first post but I've taken my 27 units background this morning then stupidly mixed up my pens and injected another 7 for my breakfast thinking it was my fast acting.
What's the protocol in this situation. Should I still take my fast acting?
Thanks
 
Naomi Key said:
Sorry just to jump in with a question on my first post but I've taken my 27 units background this morning then stupidly mixed up my pens and injected another 7 for my breakfast thinking it was my fast acting.
What's the protocol in this situation. Should I still take my fast acting?
Thanks
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Your extra background insulin will drip slowly in over the next 12-24 hours ( depending on which one it is) so it'll give you about one third of a unit extra per hour for its duration. Looking at it this way, it means you'll be getting about one extra unit over the next three hours, and so on, so I'd knock down my fast acting by one unit every mealtime today, and then make sure I'm a bit higher than usual at bedtime, and maybe set an alarm during the night to check.

Oh, and welcome to the forum. Don't worry, you're not the first person to mix up their insulins, and you won't be the last!
 
HI Naomi - nobody's a 'proper' diabetic until they've had a hypo and another time mixed their insulin pens up!

This one's easier to deal with though - when you accidentally jab loads of fast acting in at bedtime instead is a right pain!
 
trophywench said:
HI Naomi - nobody's a 'proper' diabetic until they've had a hypo and another time mixed their insulin pens up!

This one's easier to deal with though - when you accidentally jab loads of fast acting in at bedtime instead is a right pain!
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Ha! Did that when I was first diagnosed! Sent my husband out to the takeaway down the road for a bottle of coke and cooked myself a massive bowl of fresh pasta at 10.30pm!
Thanks for the reassurance.
 
Naomi Key said:
Sorry just to jump in with a question on my first post but I've taken my 27 units background this morning then stupidly mixed up my pens and injected another 7 for my breakfast thinking it was my fast acting.
What's the protocol in this situation. Should I still take my fast acting?
Thanks
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Hi and welcome. You’ll be fine. Test yourself often, It’s easy done isn’t it, I mixed up things up a few weeks back, gave myself 16 unitsnof basal (at that time I only needed 10 units of basal) instead of my Novorapid .
I found I needed to eat far more carbs than I expected. I can’t advise on the amount of bolus as I’m T 2 and we tend to need more insulin .
Do let us know how you get on

Oh and don’t do it again :D
 
She will do it again, and so will everyone else on 2 sorts of insulin!
 
Exactly Lin - if we did these things 'consciously' - well it might stop us doing them when we mess it up.

As we don't - we can't prevent it!
 
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