Hi Smidge -- sorry you had such a fright. Do keep your nerve -- the very fact that you did this makes it extremely unlikely that you would ever do it again, as you will now be conditioned to double-check. It's like forgetting your house key -- worth doing once just so that ever after you always double-check that you have it. And yes, I did.It was horrid - the sheer horror when I realised I had the wrong pen in my hand and there was nothing I could do to get the insulin back out! What scares me most though is that it was 10pm and if I hadn't realised I would have gone to bed without knowing I'd overdosed - that keeps coming into my mind. I was very careful to get the right pen last night!
Smidge
Hi Smidge -- sorry you had such a fright. Do keep your nerve -- the very fact that you did this makes it extremely unlikely that you would ever do it again, as you will now be conditioned to double-check. It's like forgetting your house key -- worth doing once just so that ever after you always double-check that you have it. And yes, I did.
Yes. It just is horrifying isn't it. But you wouldn't not have checked. I th we hyper-tryers take so many steps to get it right that we wouldn't miss it when we have screwed up.
Hi Smidge -- sorry you had such a fright. Do keep your nerve -- the very fact that you did this makes it extremely unlikely that you would ever do it again, as you will now be conditioned to double-check. It's like forgetting your house key -- worth doing once just so that ever after you always double-check that you have it. And yes, I did.
I think this is a good practice - I always used pens of a different shape, colour, feel and model from each other.I run a silver novopen 4 for levemir which only dials in 1u and a red echo for NovoRapid which dials in 0.5u. They feel different to use, so that helps.
****** I have just done similar 40:units of Nova rapid instead of levamir!!! ******!!!
****** I have just done similar 40:units of Nova rapid instead of levamir!!! ******!!!
I'm coming to the conclusion thatt insulin pens should be redesigned . Something thusly :
You take the cap off, screw on a needle, dial up the dose which activates a klaxon:
"OOOORRROOOGAH ! OOOOORRROOOGAH ! Then an automated voice asks " Do you really want to inject N units of insulin now ? Shake once to accept ! "
* shakes pen *
" Do you REALLY want to inject N units of insulin now? Shake once to acknowledge !"
* Shakes the pen with unecessary force and mutters darkly....Dinner is cooling and I'm starving *
" Depress plunger, and PROCEED !"
* Inserts needle in to arm, depresses plunger and ..... the &@£?!! cartridge runs out half way .. You think it's half way...the dial has stuck at a point that could be 5, or 5.5 , it's hard to tell through the tears of frustration and rage.*
Ah, just a thought!
Signy
I wish you could lock the rapid acting pen at a maximum number of units[...]
I find it ridiculous that we have locked 'professional' settings on BG meters on the bolus calculator but no safety lock on our bolus pens. Ah well, I guess the designers are not diabetic!
Come to that, things like basal pens will normally only be used at certain times of day. How about locks that stop you using the basal for bolus and an alarm if you don't use the basal when you should have.Excellent idea and good points.
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