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Tips to help with forgetfulness please

Papa Doodles

Papa Doodles

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Type of diabetes
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Hi Folks. Hoping that someone may be able to give me a tip or two. I'm getting a bit forgetful and confused. I take a lot of medication for various long term conditions. The tablets I've been able to organise for them to come in blister packs - which is a great help.

But I keep getting muddled with my insulin. I use Novorapid and Lantus, and sometimes get the doses mixed up, or inject the wrong one - usually at night. I've tried keeping the Lantus in the bedroom for night time injection; and even have a memo minder from assistive technology that tells me to check what I'm going to use. But I still manage, sometimes, to inject the Lantus dose, but with Novorapid - which is way too much.

I'd be grateful for any thoughts of other ways I might try to get this right; preferably before I do any real harm. So far I've been lucky, and woken before the hypo gets too deep, but have been as low as 2.0 m/mol on waking.

Thanks for any help you can give me.
 
I have a note taped to my Lantus case to remind me. I know not to use the one with the note on it unless it's bedtime.
 
I have bolus or basal written on my pens with permanent marker.

Novorapid you can get pens that tell you if you have bolused.

Tis hard though.. I've only been back on mdi a couple weeks but have slready used wrong pen- despite being marked up very clearly!!
 
When I was on MDI treatment I had two different coloured cases for the two different pens which was a great help although as others have suggested a label on the pen or its case saying bolus or basal or even fast and night-time might help.

Good luck
 
Different coloured pens and using a marker pen are great suggestion, the pens that @donnellysdogs is referring to is the NovoPen Echo which has a built-in memory function, this is handy in case you ever have moments where you doubt yourself if you've injected or not.

Also there's memory devices that fit on the end of pens such as lantus, one is called Timesulin and they cost around £20.
 
One the best natural help for forgetfulness is having minerals mostly from nuts. Not a total remedy, but i believe they help, mostly from almonds and wallnuts.
 
I wish it was as simple as just eating nuts!! I eat mountains of walnuts, almonds, pistachio, pecan etc... Hasn't helped me!! Even writing bolus n basal On pens I still messed up! I end up triple checking all the time...
 
I guess theres not much left to do but moving slowly and rethinking performing an action.
 
I keep them in 2 seperate cases, and also I have many alarms set on my phone which help remind me when to check, eat, and inject.

I also have alarms set on my meter for my Lantus injections, which I do 2x daily at 11am and 11pm before bed.

Hope this helps :)
 
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