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I've just been through the insulin in my fridge looking at expiry dates, and I can't find them on the humalog cartridges but can on the lantus ones.
Why is this a problem? Well, my pharmacy only give me enough insulin for one month a time and this means they often give me insulin in generic white cardboard boxes rather than in the original 5 vial manufacturer boxes, which include expiry dates on the box.
Now my surgery have specified the amount of lantus I need in the script, but not the humalog.... The pharmacy seems to think this means I need 4 3 ml cartridges a month, whereas I probably only use 3 (usually, if I decide to eat higher carb or get sick it could go up) and I am starting to build up a stock of humalog. My oldest supply was issued at the end of February, but doesn't have a date because it is in the anonymous box. The next oldest is at the beginning of April, and is November 2022. The other two are August of 2023.
So, do I assume the stuff in the undated box is OK? (I'm going to ring the chemist on Monday and check that they don't hand out insulin that has less than 6 months before expiry.)
So some questions
1) Could someone on humalog check if they can find an expiry date on a cartridge. Even with reading glasses, my vision isn't as good as it used to be and I may be missing something obvious.
2) Curiosity really. How old is the insulin that your pharmacies/chemists hand out?
Looks like my humalog is made in Europe, so it's coming a long way....
Why is this a problem? Well, my pharmacy only give me enough insulin for one month a time and this means they often give me insulin in generic white cardboard boxes rather than in the original 5 vial manufacturer boxes, which include expiry dates on the box.
Now my surgery have specified the amount of lantus I need in the script, but not the humalog.... The pharmacy seems to think this means I need 4 3 ml cartridges a month, whereas I probably only use 3 (usually, if I decide to eat higher carb or get sick it could go up) and I am starting to build up a stock of humalog. My oldest supply was issued at the end of February, but doesn't have a date because it is in the anonymous box. The next oldest is at the beginning of April, and is November 2022. The other two are August of 2023.
So, do I assume the stuff in the undated box is OK? (I'm going to ring the chemist on Monday and check that they don't hand out insulin that has less than 6 months before expiry.)
So some questions
1) Could someone on humalog check if they can find an expiry date on a cartridge. Even with reading glasses, my vision isn't as good as it used to be and I may be missing something obvious.
2) Curiosity really. How old is the insulin that your pharmacies/chemists hand out?
Looks like my humalog is made in Europe, so it's coming a long way....