I have the Medport Pen wallet and the Dia-Pak Daymate I like the daymate compact style. The Medport holds more. I also bought the Dia-Pak Deluxe to travel with.
I have an insulated lunch bag that my work gave us one year. It is small enough and light enough to walk around with and not feel like I have a purse.
I just keep mine in the inner zip pocket of whichever purse I’m using… Then when I get home, I’ll put my used pen needles in my sharps container. My dad is always like “maybe think about the pump…” and I’m like “no I don’t want to be attached to anything” and he’s like “well you seem to be pretty attached to your purse ;)” and I’m like “yeah, that’s true, it’s become like a security blanket, but at least I can set it down and not have it always be physically attached to me” Just sucks when I want to go out and all my friends have cute clutches or nothing at all and I’m like “hmmm, well I gotta bring my phone, ID, money, oh and my tester, my pen, my needles, and like something that’ll raise it should I be low like cake frosting or a couple of glucose tablets” Doesn’t easily fit in a teeny clutch or nothing at all for that matter!!
They do make those glucose tab key chains
As soon as guys can carry purses let me know until then I guess its either a jacket or some kind of bag???
I carry two insulin pens pretty much everywhere I go. I have a silver Novopen for my novolog and a green Novopen for my NPH. (Interesting story there.) They both pack into a little tri-fold wrap-up nylon carry case which I don’t recall where I got (but think I got from Novo Nordisk when I got the pens). The case holds a few extra needle heads too. All of which slips into a little narrow profile belt pack which also contains glucose tabs, my cell phone, my reading glasses, a check book and whatever else I can fit into it. So its got most everything I need and I carry it everywhere. I almost feel naked if I walk out the door without it. But I refuse to call it a man-purse.
One more little thing I carry in my belt pack which I have found a wonderful addition is something made by Lilly called Tes-Tape. It is a very small little roll-pack of paper-like tape which can be pulled out and ripped off and used to test for sugar content in a fluid. Pull off a little piece and dip it into the diet Coke to confirm that it really is diet Coke. The yellow tape instantly turns a bright shade of green in the presence of sugar. 90-95% of time it really is diet Coke but catching those few times when it isn’t? Priceless! I don’t drink a soft drink dispensed at a cinema complex or fair or wherever without testing it first anymore.
Sadly, Lilly doesn’t sell Tes-Tape in the U.S. (Go figure.) I got mine from a friend in Canada. I’m sure Lilly doesn’t want to hear this but I’ve been carrying around the same little roll of Tes-Tape for years and it still seems to be working just fine. I’m sure its waaaaaay past expiration BUT it still finds unwanted sugar every time. I mean, I don’t really care how accurate it is. I don’t care whether it shows 1/10% of sugar, or 1/4% of sugar, or 2% of sugar. I just wanna know if my none-sugar drink has ANY sugar in it. And my really old expired Tes-Tape proves it every time! So, why can’t we get this product or something like it in the U.S.? Do we really want to know?
I use a cosmetics organizer for all my D stuff (meter/strips/lancet/glucose/insulin/extra stuff)… I will add a smaller freezer pack if I know I’ll be somewhere very warm for a long time.
I saw a Novo Nordisk insulin pen case on ebay and called novonordisk about it they are sending me one!!! Who knows the quality but I will find out…