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anyone here forgot to take Levemir

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static192

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Location
Birmingham
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
hi just wanted to ask has anyone here ever forgot to take there levemir basal insulin and was it hard to manage there blood sugars?. throughtout the day?.
 
Yep - and I'm probably not the only one. Although it it was usually asking myself "Did I take it or not?" and I found the NovoPen Echo to be really useful in this respect as it has a doohickey on the end that records the last dose administered and how many hours ago it was.

I'm on a pump now, but when I have forgotten a basal dose on MDI, I took about 2 thirds the following morning and corrected for the initial high. (And tested rather a lot).
 
Ah I've forgotten to take it or have taken the wrong insulin on multiple occasions! Easy enough to do with over 20 years as a diabetic! When I realised I had forgotten I would normally take a half dose to tide me over till my evening injection and be super on it with checking my blood sugar and giving small amounts of novorapid.
 
I have forgotten to take it on a couple of occasions. I don't tend to take it again until the evening but will constantly test my bloods during the day to make sure that all is as well as can be,
 
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