What would you do......

if you're a type 1 diabetic on 4 (sometimes more) injections per day, you have 1 pen for QA & 1 pen for BI, your pen for QA suddenly goes faulty on a Sunday?


Ps re the above question, i'm just purely wondering what you'd do, i do luckily have 1 spare pen for QA & 1 spare for BI, my in use pen for QA went faulty on me earlier today so i'm now using my spare one, i'll have to get in touch with the surgery tomorrow to issue me with a "new" spare one.

Have spare pens at home and change to a new one every three months. Just would like to change the script to blue and silver to save spray painting them!

I do have a spare pen for both QA and BI insulin; however still using the same QA pen which I was given about 12 years ago when first diagnosed.
I don't believe in waste!

Fair point - I teach product design so my old pens get studied by my classes. I used to think they were a good design before I was diagnosed but now depend on them - kind of gets them to think about design on a whole new level. That can only be a good thing.

Always have a spare QA pen in the cupboard...except for now!
Using the Lilly Humapen Memoir for Humalog (with dose memory display) and when the battery of my usual pen clapped out I had to press the spare into service.
When I contacted Lilly in September to supply a new spare, I discovered that they are in the process of bringing out a new type of pen and cannot supply any service at this time. So I will have to hope that this one lasts until March 2012 when they release the new type. Good thing is that this pen still can be used as a manual type....but I can imagine it being quite difficult to use in this way, as I’m a bit deaf and counting the pen clicks whilst turning the dose adjustment, would not be straightforward for me. Lilly support has been first class and I was surprised that they had no stock of old pens left with another 6 months to go.
I also always keep a bag of disposable syringes too for QA which I can use as last resort.
My BI pens are disposable, so no problem there.
Meltow....you sound like a true Yorkshireman. Have to admit though to using the manual forerunner of the pen that I use now for 3 or 4 years generally before breaking them somehow.
Regards
Garry

I have a spare pen for both QA and BI though I am using my spare BI now and haven't ordered a replacement yet.
I also have some syringes which I keep just in case the pen fails.

I use the Flexpen disposables for my Novo and Levemir......................so no spares as such, just fresh unused ones........................

Was told on my dafne course to have spare pack of syringes just in case. Also have spare pen though.