ahahah so i had just finished waxing my legs using sugar wax, tested and my bg was 16.6 ahaha oh i thought i was dying so i gave myself 6 units of insulin hahaha yeh well i was low for quite some time,what is the dumbest diabetes related thing you have done ahah make me feel not so stupid
lesson learnt: double check your bg …
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Haha, I never would have thought about that with the sugar wax! I’ve mixed up my Lantus and humalog before, when I was on mdi, makes for a long night. One time I typed in my bg as my carbs using my pump. I was around 100 and only eating about 8 carbs. Luckily I caught that before I okayed it. Lesson learned: don’t bolus while distracted!
It’s a tie. One is using the wrong insulin. The other was going hiking without any sugar. I was very new to diabetes then; it wouldn’t happen now. I hope.
oh yeh, wow hiking without sugar though oh that just makes me anxious hahaha
It certainly did me! LOL. Rather scary at the time.
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can you absorb sugar through your skin like that? Or was it - you tested and had sugar residue on your fingers?
I’ve had similar freak-out moments after forgetting to wash my hands and then checking my blood sugar. In my case the culprit was a lotion with a fruit extract in it.
Then it’s just like, “Well… I really wanted to eat the ENTIRE bag of popcorn anyway…”
Just the residue. I don’t usually make a special effort to wash my hands unless I know I’ve handled something sweet recently. But every once in a while it catches me out.
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yes so i tested while there was still residue on my fingers
ahah thats so funny, but i can’t believe some moisturisers contain sugar or like the extract you were taking about
A couple times I’ve had a shot for some food, then sit down at the computer or get busy doing something to pass the 5 minutes…20 minutes later "What’s that weird feeling? Oh my gosh I had a shot!"
Then there are the times now then in the mornings when my phone-alarm will go off to remind me its time for my levemir. Turn the alarm off, do a few things first, and at some point I’m thinking, “Oops I think I forgot to have my shot…or, what if I already had it and just can’t remember?” Not fun. lol
There was the time we drove to the next state to a dinner birthday celebration, and I forgot my insulin. Dumb and dumber!
When I was a teeanger I went to a friend’s cabin on a somewhat remote island and discovered when I went to take my dinner shot that I’d forgotten pen needles (though I remembered insulin). My friend’s mom had to call around and drive to the one pharmacy on the island, which thankfully had the insulin I needed, though I was a few hours late in getting the shot (this was before MDI).
Been there, done that. ALL of it. 
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This is one of the things that stops me from throwing my pump against the wall when it wakes me up at 3 am for some damn problem and I’m totally ready to go back to MDI. You can always check when you bolused, how much, and what you’ve got on board.
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Going swimming and then using the sauna with my medtronic pump in the pocket of my suit. While sitting in the sauna me and the wife couldn’t figure out what the high pitch sound was. Come to find out, that is the medtronic “something is seriously wrong with your pump” sound. Needless to say, it didn’t survive that experience.
LOL thank you! I’m glad it’s not just me!
That would be handy. Someone on here told me a while back about “timesulin”, something you can put on the pen that keeps track of what you had and when. But it might be a US thing because my pharmacist looked at me like he never heard of it when I mentioned it.
It actually looks like a pretty clever device. It replaces the injector pen cap, and basically when you put it on after an injection it starts a timer and when you take it off for your next one it zeroes out. I’d definitely want to try one if I went back to MDI. Costs about $30 on Amazon.
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Last night at 9:30pm I checked my blood sugar preparing to go to bed. It was 436! I have Timesulin caps on both my Apidra and Levemir and saw that I had in fact taken Levemir for my dinner bolus rather than Apidra. Without the Timesulin cap, I wouldn’t have had a clue. I love my Timesulin caps! It takes a big level of distraction to get hold of the wrong insulin when you have a Timesulin cap on your pens, but for me it’s possible!–and it was a really dumb diabetes moment.
I corrected for the amount to bring my blood sugar down to 100 with my Apidra, and then stayed up reading until I got 98 at about 1:30am. Then, because I had more Levemir on board than usual, I had some yogurt and went to bed. I woke up at 6:30am this morning with a blood sugar of 82. By the way, the Timesulin caps do not tell you how much insulin you took, only how long it has been since you last removed the cap to take a shot.
What I just now did not mention is that I have Lumbar Spinal Stenosis. High blood sugars give me terrible, I mean awful, leg cramps, so it was an unpleasant night. I actually could not stand up, was basically paralzyed in a sitting position with a lot of pain for half an hour. My legs are still sore this morning, but I can walk. Lots of motivation to keep good blood sugar numbers!