Fun with a bad box...

tim2000s

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After assuming that I was going down with something due to high bg levels, the symptoms hadn't come on by this morning.

As a result I decided to change the relatively new insulin cartridge for another to see if that was where the issue lay.

Throughout the day, I've been dosing far higher ratios than I would have expected, so I flipped to a new pen and cartridge, and still didn't see any change.

When I moved to a different box of cartridges, Lo and behold everything started to work.

Scary stuff that changes don't always work, and wholesale ones are sometimes needed. That a whole pack was off I hope is uncommon, especially when they hadn't been treated differently!
 
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tim2000s said:
After assuming that I was going down with something due to high bg levels, the symptoms hadn't come on by this morning.

As a result I decided to change the relatively new insulin cartridge for another to see if that was where the issue lay.

Throughout the day, I've been dosing far higher ratios than I would have expected, so I flipped to a new pen and cartridge, and still didn't see any change.

When I moved to a different box of cartridges, Lo and behold everything started to work.

Scary stuff that changes don't always work, and wholesale ones are sometimes needed. That a whole pack was off I hope is uncommon, especially when they hadn't been treated differently!
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Wow, that is scary stuff... if you weren't an experienced insulin user you could get into a bit of strife with insulin that is "off", I imagine.
 
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Can't say that I've ever had a problem with suspected insulin being 'off' as I always kept my pen cartridges in the door pocket of my fridge and just took out 1 cartridge about 12hrs before I was going to use it in my pen. My vials are also stored in the fridge and I just fill up pump cartridges using cold insulin and get them upto body temp to allow for air bubbles before inserting them in the pump.
 
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In 54 years I have never had any bad insulin and in that time I've used quite a few different insulins
 
LucySW

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I had a bad box a few months ago. It hadn't been stored correctly at the chemist's. Few people use cartridges here (in Dk) and they're kept in a different, less accessible fridge. Since then, I only go to the main chemist.
 
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