I do, but only because I haven’t replaced it with insulin yet. That place is definitely going to be the insulin drawer whenever the medical team decides that’s the next-indicated treatment step. But for now, it’s got Kerrygold and Tillamook happily living nice, short life-spans in there.
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I don’t follow the “throw it out 28 days after opening” rule, and I don’t pay attention to the expiration date. I have used very old insulin and it works fine.
32 years ago I got snowed in. Stuck in the mountains for days and ended up with no insulin. I vowed that would never happen again. I started saving up after that horrifying experience.
Zombie apocalypse? Bring it on!
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Eddie2, you surely must have been a Boy Scout in your youth…
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If you are interested in submitting one, I would be happy to review your resume or CV in order to consider you for addition to our post-ZA clan.
Quick question, though: Have you earned the Z Warfare Badge? No offense, but I will need to verify this if your answer is “Yes”.
I’m pretty simple. Novolog, Victoza and some Smlylin. And I’m sorry to say, new refrigerator a few years back and no butter compartment. What are we going to do now?!
You’re only inviting me to get my insulin stash…
No, I’m inviting you for your mad skills.
We are not Sanctuary (Walking Dead reference.)
No butter compartment?!?!? Sounds like a manufacturing error to me. Is your fridge still under warranty?
Do you still use the NPH?
I do on non-pump days. I use the Lilly Humulin version of NPH.
My basal arrangement was Lantus and NPH (in separate injections, of course). I like the timing of NPH. For the nightime basal increases (like the 4am bump so many people have) , NPH fits so well for me.
Trying to do nightime with just one Lantus shot would never work. I am not sure how people do that.
A lot of people badmouth NPH, but I like it!
This didn’t work for me, either, when I was taking Lantus. If I ever went back to MDI, it would not surprise me if I needed NPH.
Do you find that there’s a big variation in NPH? One of the reasons for its downfall as a good insulin, I"ve read, is that there’s a 30-50% variation in its absorption rate. So sometimes it’s much more effective, sometimes much less effective, which probably contributed (in part) to things like the nasty lows it has a reputation for causing.
I don’t have a problem with it. I take my NPH in two separate doses, a few hours apart, so that instead of a big peak, it has two smaller peaks, if that makes sense.
NPH is about 70 years old! Of course it has been changed/refined, but that’s amazing to me.
In the cheese compartment…cheese (!!!), Lantus, butter and an Ouch Mouse for booboos.
You made me look up “Ouch Mouse”! 
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No pump vacation Eddie2, I have RA and use an infusion every 4 months., The infusion includes Sucrose and Steriods. It takes about 72 hours to get my blood sugar back to normal and requires the use of two-time basal Insulin for at least 48 hours.
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Wow! There are so many things to fight through. Press on!
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The little cubes are chilled/frozen and slipped into the mouse (looks like a mini slipper).
I had purchased these for my children for their bumps and bruises…now a benefit to the next generation, with the added comforting comment of “your mummy/daddy loved Ouch Mouse”.
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So not to be a weirdo stickler, but I remember reading that some of the earlier vaccines (can’t remember if it was an early incarnation of the measles vaccine or the MMR or something) had a lower overall efficacy in the population because doctors were initially keeping it in the door (where butter compartment lies), which is exposed to higher temperatures than is optimal. So wouldn’t it be bad to keep insulin in that compartment as compared to other sections of the fridge?
I just realized yesterday that none of my insulin/glucagon is kept in the butter compartment, but rather in the door below the butter compartment. The butter compartment itself is empty. I found insulin kept falling out of it, which got annoying, and since I don’t eat dairy I couldn’t think of anything else to keep in there!