What would you do......

[mum2westiesGill]

if you're a type 1 diabetic on 4 (sometimes more) injections per day, you have 1 pen for QA & 1 pen for BI, your pen for QA suddenly goes faulty on a Sunday?


Ps re the above question, i'm just purely wondering what you'd do, i do luckily have 1 spare pen for QA & 1 spare for BI, my in use pen for QA went faulty on me earlier today so i'm now using my spare one, i'll have to get in touch with the surgery tomorrow to issue me with a "new" spare one.

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Gill, can you do some translation for me please what is QA and BI
ta very much 🙂

A well prepared diabetic should always have spares, as soon as spare used reorder a replacement.

 

[Robster65]

Gill, can you do some translation for me please what is QA and BI
ta very much 🙂

A well prepared diabetic should always have spares, as soon as spare used reorder a replacement.

I think QA is quick acting (bolus) and BI is background insulin (basal).🙂

I'd do exactlt what you've one WM and use my spare. Then re-order.

As Sue says, you need to have spares of everything (as you clearly do!) in case of emergency.🙂

Rob

 

[Copepod]

I have on occasions (well, to reduce weight on mountain marathons - up to 36 hours out in the field, carrying all camping kit, food, fuel, clothing, emergency kit etc between 2 of us) deliberately carried just one pen, plus a cartridge of each type of insulin, plus a syringe in case pen fails, and swapped cartiridges into the pen as I needed them (not in race time, of course!)

In more normal life, I always have a long acting pen, plus 2 short acting pens, 1 in kitchen, 1 in rucksack for outside house. So, I always have a spare.

As others have said - always have spare kit and medication to hand. 🙂

 

[trophywench]

Abso-flipping lutely!

I used disposable pens for a while, after I started the third of the 5 in a box i order the next lot.

The absolute emergency position would be syringes, since as long as you have an insulin cartridge, you can administer your jab by syringe. I'd go and but them from Boots if they were open but if not I'd drive round to A&E and beg on bended knee.

I hate syringes but needs must when the alternative is dying! (LOL, just DKA and a night on a trolley LOL) The added advantage with A&E is that if you've never used a syringe, hopefully they'd show you the technique - which is easy peasy actually.

The thought of ever having to do that (revert to syringes) is quite enough on its own to keep me double stocked !

 

[Robster65]

When I was a couple of years into diagnosis, I went camping with parents and realised I'd forgotten my needles (as you do🙄), so had to find nearest A&E and, as trophywench suggested, beg for disposables.

They took some convincing, but I guess teenage drug addicts wouldn't normally take their parents with them if they were going to try and cadge supplies. They'd only give us enough for the next day, so had to go and buy some in Boots. I felt a bit of a ninny.😱

Rob

 

[mum2westiesGill]

I think QA is quick acting (bolus) and BI is background insulin (basal).🙂

I'd do exactlt what you've one WM and use my spare. Then re-order.

As Sue says, you need to have spares of everything (as you clearly do!) in case of emergency.🙂

Rob

Gill, can you do some translation for me please what is QA and BI
ta very much 🙂

A well prepared diabetic should always have spares, as soon as spare used reorder a replacement.

Hi there Sue,

Sorry about the translation, i only picked it up since joining in with diabetic forums, lol. Anyway it's exactly as Rob says QA = quick acting & BI = background insulin

 

[Ellie Jones]

If the insulin is by the same manufacturer then you can just swap over the cartridges to do the injections..

But if you like me and use insulin from 2 manufacturers then you can't do this, so it's easier when away from home to carry spare syringe just in case..

Yep I've done the A&E trip, but I've not had much problems when I've gone, once I've explained shown them my diabetic kit.. They've been very forthcoming and helpful..

Mind you saying that My Ex-H, uncle ended up in a Spanish police cell back in the 70's😱

Then in his early 20's still Glass Syringes... Metric had just started to come in he had picked up some new needles for his Glass syringe didn't check that he'd been given the imperial needles before flying out..

Found out the chemist had given him metric while on holiday, so off he went unable to speak spanish (and in the 70's most Spanish didn't speak english) to the chemist to see if he get some imperial needles... Several chemists later he found that the chemist had called the police in, and he was arrested suspect druggie😱

Slammed into the cells as he couldn't speak Spanish and the Cops couldn't speak..... Eventually he was rescued by the holiday rep who translated that he was diabetic trying to get hold of some needles for his syringes and brought his diabetic kit in the police station..

He says the police was brilliant once they realised, found him some needles then in apology then gave him a sight seeing tour in their police car!

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Hi there Sue,

Sorry about the translation, i only picked it up since joining in with diabetic forums, lol. Anyway it's exactly as Rob says QA = quick acting & BI = background insulin

Ta very much 🙂