Must be something about thyroid meds that we forget them. Done that many times. I take T3, which is taken twice daily. Recently read it's best to take T3 3x daily. Try remembering that!
My wife found this very frustrating: "Did you do your insulin?" ... "Eh, I don't know."
We have an answer; I use an Omnipod now, so every time the pop injects insulin there is a record that I can look at on the controller (the "PDM").
Still, we have these curious conversations: "What is your blood sugar?", "Let me check." ... "What is you blood sugar?", "Eh, I can't remember, let me check the meter."
I suspect I'm particularly bad though; I have a memory that does not remember "facts" as such, rather I remember conclusions. A non-descript BS reading just isn't memorable.
John Bowler jbowler@acm.org
LOL -- I can't tell you how many times I've had "BG amnesia" ten seconds after testing. I have to haul the meter back out and jot it down so I can calc my correction. Ooops. It's that darn short-term memory -- it can't be bothered by anything less important than, "Am I currently being chased by a bear or not?"
Heck, just trying saying "take tee-three three times daily" three times fast. It's too hard to say, much less to do.
LOL!
Different people take different stances on their privacy. You are "out" and I expect this is a well informed decision on your part. While I agree obscurity is alone never ideal, I also believe my enemies are lazy and they will bother others before they find and get to me.
In either case, the majority of users should be prudent about revealing their identities and personal information. It is never wise to invite attention.
I think it is a common mistake to take basal for bolus and vice versa. One thing that can help is rituals. We ritualize in one form or another. And we do this with our injections, the way we put on the needle, the way we prime. And rituals make things seamless so that don't have to think about the process. That is a mistake. We make a mistake by ritualizing basal and bolus in the same way, it leaves us vulnerable to mixups.
If you adopt some rituals that are different for basal and bolus, and practice them all the time you can establish a set of layered defenses against a mistake. For instance, place a rubber band on you basal. Every time you go to injection the basal, move the rubber band from the barrel to the tip and vice versa. The rubber band itself and the placement means nothing, but if you go to inject your basal and there is no rubber band you notice. A couple of these ritial variations and pretty soon it becomes much more improbably that you would inject the wrong insulin.
Hmmm...good point. Maybe just keeping the basal pen in a plastic baggie -- and not the bolus -- would be enough "separation" to make me think? I could add a 3 x 5 card to the baggie that says, "HEY! I'm a Lantus pen for basal injections only!" Or perhaps I could compose a bolus "fight song" that focuses my mind: "I'm the mighty, mighty Purple and Gray and Lantus is my name!" OK, maybe that's delirious. LOL Anyway, I'm one pen away from switching to Levemir -- I'd better wait until I get those pens before I start composing rituals. Right now, the Lantus is banished to my chilly kitchen.