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Can you use insulin from a pen in a syringe?

As an old school injector.

You "should" in principle. (Never tried it.) But you may cause a vacuume with what you take out? The bung on the pen vial. At least with the membrain sucking it in.
Back in the days of using hypodermic needles & syringes. I replaced what I took out of the vial with air..

Back in the early days of MDI. The pens (basal & bolus.) looked the same? Exactly the same... I marked them to distinguish. (There used to be a handy sticker with rapid & the longer acting.) Was easy to pick up the wrong one on the run...

Biscuits are good too. :)

.... Milk.
 
Crisis? Crisps will always sort it out...
They do! They send my bg up hours later, very useful when I don't trust things before sleeping. It's easy to nudge bg up before sleeping, much harder to nudge it up when fast asleep. Crisps do just that :)
Oh, and i love them, so if there is an excuse for eating them, I will!
 
They do! They send my bg up hours later, very useful when I don't trust things before sleeping. It's easy to nudge bg up before sleeping, much harder to nudge it up when fast asleep. Crisps do just that :)
Oh, and i love them, so if there is an excuse for eating them, I will!
Now that's a nice excuse to eat crisps. :hilarious:
 
Milk? Milk will send me up straight away, not after 4 hours or so.

Maybe... But again "old school?" But saved me from a repercussive come down.. As a child & teen. ;)

But yep, it can be a bit of a "rodeo."
 
@ANTJE Syringes come in different lengths/sizes just like pen needles, usually they cost a little less. Reusing a syringe is up to you I know several people that do, but I never did. Reusing a syringe to me is not a good idea with a vial because the needle is reinserted back into the vial to draw the insulin back out, but people do. I would hope they decontaminate the needle but ........?????

Using a syringe works on a pen, at least it does for a humalog pen. I had a plentiful supply when I switched to a pump and just stayed with pens, but my Omnipod has a big syringe that comes with it to draw insulin from a vial or a pen to fill up the pod. Usually you will want U100 syringes for most insulin.

https://www.sharecare.com/health/insulin/what-size-insulin-syringe-buy
 
Morning chaps, up bright and early after a good night’s sleep. No alarms. So excited about my first day, have taken the suggested FotF dose.

@Antje77 you can withdraw insulin from a pen with a syringe, I’ve done it a lot :)
 
@karen8967 depends on what basal you're on and to an extent how much. Only you can decide but say you normally take 20u of levemir at bed time, this morning you might think about taking 14u now if you missed last nights. something along those lines.
 
Morning all, and up and down weekend as far as BG goes, but nothing I can't handle or explain. I did however do a 'Final Destination' scenario (fortunately without the death bit, just a "bit" of blood!) - picture man on step ladder with secateurs snipping and pulling ivy off fence post and trellis - no I didn't snip my own finger! right hand holding secateurs arm around the top hoop of the ladder, left hand tugging at the ivy when fairly large piece came away a bit easier than anticipated so left hand shoots across the body and into the waiting open secateurs..........think I lost at least a years blood testings worth :banghead::nurse:

Fortunately I only managed to catch my middle finger but it was a good 'slice' - sorry!:rolleyes:
 
This forgetting basal is becoming a group thing.
I waited @karen8967 and rode it out injecting extra Fiasp as and when. As I am on Toujeo I was amazed by how long it was before I saw the effects. Both without and reintroduced. As I have to move my basal up or down a unit or two every few weeks, it has made me realise that I need to wait 4 days before making any more changes, so that I see the true effects. I certainly wouldn’t adjust basal for illness/exercise as it would all be over before that change kicked in.
 
Morning all, @karen8967 it seems to depend on which basal you use. I'm on Lantus and I split it now, but when I took it at night only and forgot, I did something like what @slip suggested.

Woke on a 4.4 and some red line showing prior to that; think it must've been true as I'm now at 14.3. Fill in your own swear words here:

@porl69 @Knikki's been awol for several days now and had been posting less and less. Hope he's not gone for good.....:(
 
Hello my dearest friends, diabetes was 10.7 this morning, the rise started around 3am and I think my liver was trying to make me look bad.
Your girl has been seen by her lovely diabetes nurse. My usual nurse is on holiday and I’m very jealous. But I spoke to another diabetes nurse and she is lovely too. I was very honest and said since I saw my other dsn, things have been a plane crash. A rollercoaster management but I’m still doing everything I can. We have concluded that my hypo awareness is mildy there but not quite. According to my meter I don’t feel anything until 3-2.8, so she said she’ll speak to my consultant to refer me for pump training. She doesn’t need anything else from me because all my readings, meter readings etc are on her computer. She said medtronic 670G with CGM might be the option because roche pump doesn’t talk to to the CGM and Tandem might not have a good helpline compared to medtronic. I’ll hear back from my DSN in a few days about it.
 
Typically insulin doses go down slightly on a pump.
Why do you ask?
I think I read someone's post in which they said their basal needs went up on a pump. I can't remember who or I might have read it wrong. I just wanted to know if MDI dosages reflect the same on a pump.
 
Could I ask does insulin needs go up on a pump?

your Insulin needs don't change it's just the different application of the insulin that makes the difference, and as always with T1 we're all different, some peoples dosages/rates do go up* but I've seen more evidence on this forum to suggest that it'll most likely go down.

*of course that might be as a result of being more on top of things and/or fine tuning and working out that ratios should be higher and in fact the same applies for lower amounts too actually!
 
Thank you, that's nice to know and of course we are all difficult. When I spoke to my dsn today, she said there have been studies that suggest that LCHF or keto does work for type 1 diabetes management but we need to be a bit more careful. I mentioned that I don't manage well when I eat anything I want and bolus for that amount of carbs, it makes it incredibly difficult to manage. Example would be 4.7 shooting up to 14.0mmol/l for one slice of bread with a different ratio for breakfast. I said I was doing some low carb but not in the strictest sense, if anyone offered me crisps here for lunch, I'd jump in. :hilarious:
 
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