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<blockquote data-quote="AliceKeates" data-source="post: 1831903" data-attributes="member: 473848"><p>Thanks for this advice, [USER=53162]@Juicyj[/USER] and [USER=181361]@helensaramay[/USER]!</p><p></p><p> He's been in touch with the surgery and the nurse and should have his Levemir by this evening. The NHS has mostly been fantastic, but the series of errors that led to this happening has been really frustrating and worrying. He'd requested a new prescription well in advance, but when he turned up to get it the surgery told him that they had no record of the request and that no medication for his diabetes was on his record -- just the lancets and needles. He'd been told by his consultant that the hospital would write to the GP to make sure they had a list of the appropriate medication, so rather than asking for an emergency appointment with the doctor he called the hospital, who said they'd sort it out with the GP so he could be issued with the right prescription. Then he was told the prescription was ready, but it ended up being for Novorapid even though he had plenty of that and was only asking for Levemir. The new prescription was in cartridges with a big new pen, [USER=181361]@helensaramay[/USER] (and I completely agree with you -- the prefilled pens seem like a bizarre waste of resources -- so it looked different to the pre-filled Novorapid he already had, and he just assumed they were different because he hasn't got that familiar with the names yet. It's the sort of thing I'd probably have noticed, but I'm trying really hard not to be a micro-managing diabetes-police spouse so I've been staying away from all the medication! Argh.</p><p>I'll invest in a copy of the book you suggest, [USER=53162]@Juicyj[/USER] -- sounds really helpful, thanks.</p><p>He's been feeling completely fine -- no waking, no odd feelings, nothing. I guess we've just been very lucky and, as you say, the fact that there was no basal hanging around in there meant that he didn't crash too much.</p><p>He's very calm about it all -- but my confidence in our understanding of how insulin etc works has taken a real knock, which is why I've come here to see if anyone can shed light on why his readings haven't really been any different.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AliceKeates, post: 1831903, member: 473848"] Thanks for this advice, [USER=53162]@Juicyj[/USER] and [USER=181361]@helensaramay[/USER]! He's been in touch with the surgery and the nurse and should have his Levemir by this evening. The NHS has mostly been fantastic, but the series of errors that led to this happening has been really frustrating and worrying. He'd requested a new prescription well in advance, but when he turned up to get it the surgery told him that they had no record of the request and that no medication for his diabetes was on his record -- just the lancets and needles. He'd been told by his consultant that the hospital would write to the GP to make sure they had a list of the appropriate medication, so rather than asking for an emergency appointment with the doctor he called the hospital, who said they'd sort it out with the GP so he could be issued with the right prescription. Then he was told the prescription was ready, but it ended up being for Novorapid even though he had plenty of that and was only asking for Levemir. The new prescription was in cartridges with a big new pen, [USER=181361]@helensaramay[/USER] (and I completely agree with you -- the prefilled pens seem like a bizarre waste of resources -- so it looked different to the pre-filled Novorapid he already had, and he just assumed they were different because he hasn't got that familiar with the names yet. It's the sort of thing I'd probably have noticed, but I'm trying really hard not to be a micro-managing diabetes-police spouse so I've been staying away from all the medication! Argh. I'll invest in a copy of the book you suggest, [USER=53162]@Juicyj[/USER] -- sounds really helpful, thanks. He's been feeling completely fine -- no waking, no odd feelings, nothing. I guess we've just been very lucky and, as you say, the fact that there was no basal hanging around in there meant that he didn't crash too much. He's very calm about it all -- but my confidence in our understanding of how insulin etc works has taken a real knock, which is why I've come here to see if anyone can shed light on why his readings haven't really been any different. [/QUOTE]
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