No QA Insulin with me....

Hi all

It seems I have forgotten to refill my QA insulin before I left for work this morning. I now have nothing to cover me for lunch or any snacking during the day. I do have my BI Insulin.
My morning BGL was 7.3, so I know I am currently within or not far from target levels.

The trip home to get it is over an hour and I still have about 5 hours of work to go.

What should I do?

Thanks

Matt

Do you have access to food (supermarket or something), get a carb free lunch (not sure what though, tinned tuna/mackerel, eggs, cheese, meat), this might be a good test of how you background works

Hardest part is thinking of a carb free lunch! At home I would have an omelette or scrambled eggs or meat and veg, but at work it might be more difficult.

Personally I wouldn't mess with background, not sure what others think?

How did you get on Matt? Hope you managed ok

Just as Phil says for me I'm afraid - either Carb free or no food. Or snacks that have either low GI or just a small amount of carbs so that if you're sugar levels do rise then it's not too much or for too long.

Had a thought (this is way too late, but might be an idea for the future for others), meat/cheese salad or those health snacks of carrots from Boots etc...

Had some soup for lunch that I had with me, however I still had a 17.1 BGL when I got home from work.
With corrective measures in place, I had it sorted by time I woke the following morning.

Thanks for the replies everyone.

Hi Matt

Didn't see your post until well after the event so apologies for the late reply.

If it happens again, maybe these suggestions would be helpful. A certain large supermarket (I won't name them - but Ant and Dec are usually in the advert!!! naughty me for giving you clues!) have a "slimmers" soup that only has about 12g carbs in it, and they do taste like the "real deal". Others often have 25/30 and would have had a similar effect on my BG as it had on yours. I haven't had tinned soups for a long time but I recollect many of them have 45/50g Larger supermarkets in the same chain sometimes have a salad bar where you can choose your own ingredients. I've found that more useful than the pre-prepared ones because I don't like pasta or goats cheese. But you can mix you own salad and make it low/no carb depending on how you feel. I noticed your post was at 12:03am so I appreciate my comments are academic as you might not have been able to access a shop of any kind in the middle of the night. But hope my suggestions might be of help for the future.

Regards

David :

And to help prevent a next time, are you able to store a spare insulin cartridge at work in the fridge there (assuming there is one)? I have a little container labelled "Warwick's Insulin" with a spare cartridge inside and it works when I forget to replace the nearly used cartridge.

Remember that a carb. free meal which uses protein to fill the gap will also have an effect on BS. When looking at the basal levels it really only works if you skill the meal entirely. I manage to do that occasionally (with the help of the odd TicTac) but don't have such a long commute and so can get access to insulin (and food to go with it!) more easily.