Engineer88
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
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- Pump
but I will have a little extra in the fridge in case of the worst happening.
You laugh, but I do have boxes in the shed fill of tins of beans, tomatoes, chickpeas etc and bags of rice and pasta, plus a chest freezer fill of frozen veg and bread.Lol, after reading the newsreports of troops on standby, I'll probably arrange for a lot of extra insulin, 300 cans of tinned mackerel and soup, buried in a metal container on a remote Scottish island. Now, where's me tent....
Three months of ‘stockpiling’ supplies is approximately three boxes of Novorapid and two of Lantus. As Slip has stated above, it depends how much you use. My supply has nothing to do with Brexit, I doubt it will cause any problems.
I think the issue with stockpiling is that everyone is not necessarily getting more insulin, but they're making sure they have enough so they have 3 months or whatever their normal maximum kept in the fridge happens to be at the same time, the end of March. So the demand will inevitably go up a little before then....
That's right. My stockpile is no more than usual. I was simply saying that I always have supplies, as I've been caught without before. In fact my insulin disappeared from my repeat medicine list at my surgery at one time, which could have proven a problem if I hadn't kept a supply.Ok, I'll put it another way, you are clearly not stockpiling because that '3 months' worth is normal for you, would you be ok with getting in 6 months worth in then or 12 months worth because of 'Brexit' or any other issue as mentioned in the question. The problem with stockpiling (for those that do) is that they each think 'mine won't matter' and then suddenly there are thousands doing the same and lo and behold, no supplies for anyone else. It happens every time we get snow.
By coincidence, Christmas morning, and one of my husnand's colleague has been in touch to say there had been a problem that week obtaining their young daughter's insulin. Then with Christmas going on, their 16 year old girl had forgotten to tell them she was out of insulin. A call had to be made to Shropdoc to sort it.That's right. My stockpile is no more than usual. I was simply saying that I always have supplies, as I've been caught without before. In fact my insulin disappeared from my repeat medicine list at my surgery at one time, which could have proven a problem if I hadn't kept a supply.