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<blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 2058913" data-attributes="member: 372717"><p>I have a caresens meter in its carry case, which includes the meter, the vial of testing strips and some lancets (I'm minimalist so I don't bother with a finger pricker). That's pretty compact so it fits in a pocket or my (deliberately tiny) handbag. Then I always have a tube of glucotabs and (usually) my insulin pen (carried loose). I don't bother with the pen if I'm just going for a walk for a couple of hours and I'm not eating out. I often don't carry the tester on short (1-2 hours) walks with my dog and husband, since I always test before hand and he usually drives. (We're ten minutes drive from an awesome wood/beach/island which is a dog exercise area and if he's driving I can leave behind everything except my glucotabs, though I usually have my meter in the car as well.) But I'd have to carry my meter on walks if I didn't have decent hypo awareness, as I often need to chew a glucotab while I'm walking.</p><p></p><p>If I'm out at the shops it's meter and glucotabs as a minimum, plus pen if there's any chance we'll eat out.</p><p></p><p>But it would be nice to have a small bag that fit glucotabs, meter and pen...,.</p><p></p><p>And if the libre still worked for me I would carry its reader at all times. (Though it was a nightmare to mislay around the house, I ended up putting a "tile" on it so I could locate it with my phone. So a typical scenario: ask my partner to ring my phone so that I could find the phone, then use the phone to find the meter. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EllieM, post: 2058913, member: 372717"] I have a caresens meter in its carry case, which includes the meter, the vial of testing strips and some lancets (I'm minimalist so I don't bother with a finger pricker). That's pretty compact so it fits in a pocket or my (deliberately tiny) handbag. Then I always have a tube of glucotabs and (usually) my insulin pen (carried loose). I don't bother with the pen if I'm just going for a walk for a couple of hours and I'm not eating out. I often don't carry the tester on short (1-2 hours) walks with my dog and husband, since I always test before hand and he usually drives. (We're ten minutes drive from an awesome wood/beach/island which is a dog exercise area and if he's driving I can leave behind everything except my glucotabs, though I usually have my meter in the car as well.) But I'd have to carry my meter on walks if I didn't have decent hypo awareness, as I often need to chew a glucotab while I'm walking. If I'm out at the shops it's meter and glucotabs as a minimum, plus pen if there's any chance we'll eat out. But it would be nice to have a small bag that fit glucotabs, meter and pen...,. And if the libre still worked for me I would carry its reader at all times. (Though it was a nightmare to mislay around the house, I ended up putting a "tile" on it so I could locate it with my phone. So a typical scenario: ask my partner to ring my phone so that I could find the phone, then use the phone to find the meter. :)) [/QUOTE]
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