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DIABETIC DRAWS

therower

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
So here's the thing, with quite a few years of being T1 under my belt I find I do things a certain way.
I have my 1st thing in the morning routine, before a meal routine and last thing at night routine, to name but a few.
Now I would like to think a lot of you out there have very similar routines.
As a T1 I have a fair bit of medication and sundries to keep me going on a daily basis. Insulin pens x2, tablets x4 types, test strip's, test meter, needles, cotton wool, carb count book, daily log book and various other bits and bobs all related to my diabetes.
All of this stuff goes in the DIABETIC DRAW. This is no normal draw, OH NO, this draw is compartmentalised.
There are compartments for each item, all made to just the right size (MDF wonderful stuff).
Can't begin to tell you how pi**ed I get when the pharmacy change supplier of things I've got a set compartment for, only for the new supplier to use different size packaging. That's another story though.
My question now is, I'm already in a minority being T1, but please please please someone out there tell me that you have a compartmentalised DIABETIC DRAW. I'm beginning to question my sanity on this one, if you don't have a DD what do you have?
 
Oh yes. I have a diabetic drawer but not compartmentalised. It's choc-a-bloc.
I too wish that all manufacturers kept to the same size and colour.
I have an additional collection which I have prepared for the week ahead which has 7x4 sections. I still get it wrong, but it hasn't killed me yet. This does not include some packs which are too big for the drawer.
 
Three boxes in a cupboard, each one sorted and laid out absolutely just-so. And oh boy I hate it too when it all needs reformatting thanks to different packaging, @therower !
 
Diabetic shelve in the upper kitchen cupboard away from toddler.
I feel your need to be kept organised. Meds are all delivered at different times. Only 2 items on repeat prescription due to specialist med changes.
Will call practice and see if I can revamp my repeat prescription order form.
Told yesterday metformin not on repeat due to liver function blood tests to be repeated monthly.
Need to have blood pressure checked before new blood pressure tablet can be put on repeat too. Also insulin can only be ordered in a box of 5 pens at a time. Which isnt enough for a month for me.
Needles are only needed every 3 months as of shampoo too.
Gaviscon depends on how low carb diet at the time. On 150g carbs and metformin it's needed but without metformin and 30gcarb no indigestion.
Dietician might reduce 150g carb to lower but god knows when.
So reluctant to cancel just yet.
Oh and there's those tablets which specialist has stopped but on repeat on a 3 month bulk to pharmacy of my choice so still get delivered and has to go back. Maybe I need an in tray and out tray.
 
OMG... I do... Mines top of the built in wardrobes- all in boxes..
1) box of normal meds for colds, flu's etc;
2) box of strips, spare pen, spare needles, blood pressure machine and cuff for hubby, cuff for me;
3) pump stuff (new);
4) also got a box in kitchen that has our daily vitamins in and a box of spare ones;

All the boxes are labelled and organised etc.

Then I have a box for my stomach meds and another box for cancer meds and oils I have etc..

Bedside cabinet at night has my injections (till next week), my libre reader, my expert blood machine, ramekin to mix my jojoba oil and frankincense in every other night on my areas treated for cancer, special non **** pitrok deoderant, container of sugar cubes for hypos, bottle of sldulcolax and a measure..and a lamp!!

I often wonder what my world would have been like without medical aids!! What would I have been like? I think I'm OTT..
 
I have two boxes - one for the testing kit and the other for the medications - am beginning to think I need a bigger box for the meds as they keep getting added to, would really rather keep the same box and not have any new/additional tablets to take..... But I absolutely hate the foil packaging - I do prepare a weeks worth of meds at a time and my fingers get so sore pushing out all those tablets from foil packets - wish they would just arrive in bottles............
 
'standard' draw downstairs (painkillers/stomach stuff limited strips) then 'pump' draw upstairs (CGM spares Pump spares) as well as whats in the fridge (insulin Glycogen) and bedside cabinat for current pills thyrid etc...
 
Oh forgot the shelf in the fridge door for the insulin!! Lol!!
 
I used to use old shoe boxes - until it started to look like Imelda Marcos had moved in. Now I've actually bought a small 3 drawer filing cabinet, about 2 foot cubed, to keep it all in one place. I even found some old syringes in there recently from 1997 that still 'might be useful some day'.
 
oh yes I have a "diabetic drawer" right next to my bed filled with needles, lancets, test strips, the insulin pens I'm using, glucometers, juice. I tend to have my injections at home in the same spot so I remember what I'm doing. I also have I whole basket of medication in the kitchen (non diabetic stuff), and I have another mini drawer in my wardrobe filled with medications I haven't opened yet usually plus my strong painkillers and anti-nausea meds which I tend to hide away. I keep the OTC painkillers in with my normal meds in the kitchen. Oh I should probably also mention I have other meds in my bathroom cupboards... for my sinuses and such. My house is covered. lol. Sad but true.

Funny isn't it... if anyone else saw my stash they'd be horrified I'm sure. I've already had comments about my kitchen basket but that's just how it is living with chronic diseases.... they keep me functioning. Plus I keep getting new meds added to the mix every now and then. I have to go through it from time to time and toss out the ones that expire... usually the ones I don't use regularly.
 
I have a general store room with shelves in it and one of the shelves is for diabetic stuff. Non diabetic stuff lives in the bathroom cabinet. The shelf is not compartmentalised, it is not even very tidy but you don't have to rummage since you can see everything.
 
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