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- Type of diabetes
- LADA
- Treatment type
- Insulin
I use NovoRapid fast-acting insulin with meals, and Lantus as my basal insulin.
I recently had a prescription for NovoRapid filled.
But, when I took it out of the fridge a few weeks later, I noticed that the stuff was cloudy.
Annoyed that it had already spoiled, I took it back to the pharmacist.
They informed me that insulin is supposed to be cloudy.
That didn't seem right to me (given that the NovoRapid datasheet that I'd read on day one was emphatic about not using cloudy insulin), and so I told them what I thought was wrong.
They reiterated that it should be cloudy.
But, I explained again, that the advice to use using cloudy insulin was diametrically opposed to what I had been told earlier.
Finally, a second pharmacist came over and established that I'd somehow been given PenMix in error instead of my normal NovoRapid.
(PenMix is a mixture of 30~40% short-acting insulin, and the rest intermediate-acting insulin.) It should, indeed, be cloudy.
But it should not have been given to me.
How dangerous might this mistake have been?
(Have always wondered, but really have no idea)
I recently had a prescription for NovoRapid filled.
But, when I took it out of the fridge a few weeks later, I noticed that the stuff was cloudy.
Annoyed that it had already spoiled, I took it back to the pharmacist.
They informed me that insulin is supposed to be cloudy.
That didn't seem right to me (given that the NovoRapid datasheet that I'd read on day one was emphatic about not using cloudy insulin), and so I told them what I thought was wrong.
They reiterated that it should be cloudy.
But, I explained again, that the advice to use using cloudy insulin was diametrically opposed to what I had been told earlier.
Finally, a second pharmacist came over and established that I'd somehow been given PenMix in error instead of my normal NovoRapid.
(PenMix is a mixture of 30~40% short-acting insulin, and the rest intermediate-acting insulin.) It should, indeed, be cloudy.
But it should not have been given to me.
How dangerous might this mistake have been?
(Have always wondered, but really have no idea)