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Bags for all your stuff ?

Andy 505

Andy 505

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Insulin
I am taking my meter bag with me when I go out and another bag with pen and needles in.

What bags do you have that will hold everything ?
 
Andy 505 said:
I am taking my meter bag with me when I go out and another bag with pen and needles in.

What bags do you have that will hold everything ?
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Depending on what I'm planning to do, I might just take a small bottle of Glucojuice, rapid acting pen and a needle, all which I can fit into pockets. For more organised trips I stuff everything into a cheap pencil case from W.H.Smiths.
 
A kids pink insulated lunch bag. I have everything in it and have it in the kitchen in the day and by the side of my bed at night. It then just goes into my rucksack when I step outside the door. In it is blood testing kit, spare needles, insulin, jelly babies, small coke and Libre reader. Also have hand sanitiser and paracetamol. I used to be in the girl guides
 
Andy 505 said:
I am taking my meter bag with me when I go out and another bag with pen and needles in.

What bags do you have that will hold everything ?
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Myabetic has an entire range. Male, female, purses, bags, fannypacks backpacks... I have two of their purses, in blue and in black. :)
 
Andy 505 said:
I am taking my meter bag with me when I go out and another bag with pen and needles in.

What bags do you have that will hold everything ?
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I’ve got a “Joe’s Small In One”. It fits 2 insulin pens, a meter, test strips, lancet device, lancet holders and holders for 4 needles. Can fit in the back pocket of jeans. It is the most compact one that fits everything in, that I could find.
 
I don't use a bag. If you lose the bag, you've lost it all, whereas if you keep each bit stashed around separate pockets, that's not going to happen.

Also, keeping hypo treatments such as an opened pack of dextrotabs, or, even worse, glucotabs, which always seem to give off a cloud of powdered gluco-dust every time it's opened, in the same place as the meter means there's a huge chance of washing your hands as much as you like, then picking up lots of glucose dust handling the meter bag.

Left jacket pocket, bg meter with some spare needles. Right pocket, dextrotabs. Top pocket, novorapid pen, libre reader. Trouser pocket, phone with xdrip for the libre.
 
I have a 'tardis' bag (bigger on the inside than it is on the outside) - its one that unzips and opens out and you can hang it on the bak of a door (I have a colostomy as well so it also carries the things I need for that in case of an 'incident').
 
Andy 505 said:
I am taking my meter bag with me when I go out and another bag with pen and needles in.

What bags do you have that will hold everything ?
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This is where us ladies have the advantage! A trusty old handbag, most of us are used to carrying one around from the age of about 12 so 'holding everything' is not a problem for us! :D
 
A crossbody ArtSac bag. Except mine is all black. It's got several compartments and inner pockets, with room for my bus pass, work pass, purse and phones as well as the diabetes stuff. It's easy to grab when I'm at work where it's known as "Japes' meds bag", it's fine for taking on a short walk, can go in my back-pack on a long walk, though phones and purse often come out into pockets, it's by my bed at night and if I had to get out of anywhere in an emergency everything I need to survive is in it!

I don't tend to scatter stuff across pockets, as they end up staying there and getting washed as I'm prone to forgetting what's where. Only consistent items in the right-hand pocket of whatever trousers I'm wearing are my keys and Mr Doofer the pedometer. Plus, on the whole, women's clothing and pockets are not often compatible. But, I do have spares of some things in one pocket of my backpack.
 
Scott-C said:
I don't use a bag. If you lose the bag, you've lost it all, whereas if you keep each bit stashed around separate pockets, that's not going to happen.

Also, keeping hypo treatments such as an opened pack of dextrotabs, or, even worse, glucotabs, which always seem to give off a cloud of powdered gluco-dust every time it's opened, in the same place as the meter means there's a huge chance of washing your hands as much as you like, then picking up lots of glucose dust handling the meter bag.

Left jacket pocket, bg meter with some spare needles. Right pocket, dextrotabs. Top pocket, novorapid pen, libre reader. Trouser pocket, phone with xdrip for the libre.
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Works fine in winter, but what when it's too hot to wear more than shorts and shirt? Also, when visiting someone I think it's pretty rude to keep my jacket on or with me all the time. And when coming home you have to move everything again from all those pockets. When using a bag you can just dump the whole thing beneath your chair/by your bed/next to the couch.
Either way, it's a nuisance to always have to carry things around.
 
I have a Healthy Back Baglett. One of these: https://www.thehealthybackbag.co.uk/shop/category/bagletts

I find no need for the ugly pack that a BG meter comes in and just put the meter, lancer and strips directly into the bag with insulin pens, a small sharps pot and a tube of glucotabs.
Spare needles and lancets live in the pocket with a spare battery for the meter.
 
Antje77 said:
Works fine in winter, but what when it's too hot to wear more than shorts and shirt?
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I live in a part of Scotland which is on the same latitude as Moscow - I wear a lighter jacket in the summer, but often wish I had my winter one on! Four seasons in a day isn't uncommon. I've seen snow in June.
 
Scott-C said:
I don't use a bag. If you lose the bag, you've lost it all, whereas if you keep each bit stashed around separate pockets, that's not going to happen.

Also, keeping hypo treatments such as an opened pack of dextrotabs, or, even worse, glucotabs, which always seem to give off a cloud of powdered gluco-dust every time it's opened, in the same place as the meter means there's a huge chance of washing your hands as much as you like, then picking up lots of glucose dust handling the meter bag.

Left jacket pocket, bg meter with some spare needles. Right pocket, dextrotabs. Top pocket, novorapid pen, libre reader. Trouser pocket, phone with xdrip for the libre.
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You’d be lucky to get a test strip in the pockets in ladies’ clothes... I wear blokes’ jeans just for the pockets!
 
Hoodies have pockets. Cargo trousers have them also..
Most my clothing when purchasing has a functional pocket or two for the kit..

.... Except on the very rare occasion I need to wear a tuxedo or dress suit. Then that is what my wife Is for with the "bag" thang...
Though, I would never burden her, I have been known to pack the gadgetry like "James Bond" for a highbrow night out... ;)
 
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