News - who's not taken their insulin?

You get caught up with the moment, 'something I should have done eh'! An hour or so later, ah insulin. Never missed a dose but have come close. It is surprising that it is something that you do as you eat, yet because of distractions does not happen when it should. I have been on insulin for 15 years. It happens on average every couple of months.

Really can't remember when I last forgot to take my insulin and would have to go back 10 years or more. One in three does seem quite a high figure, and its astonishing that physicians believe the figure for missed doses could be nearer six a month! :shock:

Nigel

Cowboyjim said:

IMHO the folks that are regular posters here are not your average and take their illness very seriously. Perhaps at least some of the respondents in such surveys are of a different kind.

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Good theory Cowboy and I certainly agree with the first part, but I do wonder what age group the canvassers who conducted the survey targeted? There was a elderly lady on the DAFNE course that I did who often forgot to take her insulin, we as a group suggested ideas to help remind her to take the insulin before her food, no idea if she put them to use but we did try!

Nigel

Well I have some tablets that have the days printed on the bubble packs, so I can check if I have taken them or not. I have only once forgotton my morning set, including my metformin. But I have often forgotton my eveing set without realising and the next day see yesterdays still there, I findon average I forget once a week to take the eveing stuff.

My morning routine is fixed so taking my medication is part of it, but evenings vary so much that I can easily get distracted.

It is particualrly hard when there is different medication to be taken at different times and quantities, I can understand why somebody might miss a session ehre and there.

My mum was insulin dependent and very reliable and well controlled, but she would if she was somewhere different, quite often forget her insulin unitl after a meal or even bedtime when she did a routine test and found herself too high.