[Diabetes-talk] forgetting insulin

[Eileen Scrivani]

Sally:

If you have a Victor Reader Stream, could you simply create a little voice 
recording with the date & time & amount of insulin each time you take it and 
only when you take it?  At the end of the day you can just delete your 
little messages and start the next day with a clear slate.  I find the 
Victor Reader very useful for short notes although my insulin routine is so 
second nature I only forget if I get badly distracted between the time I 
test and get to the area where I keep my insulin supplies.

I can honestly say that forgetting to take insulin is an extreme rarity for 
me after all these years.
Eileen

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Sally Maguire" <1.sally at comcast.net>
To: <Diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, August 26, 2009 3:19 PM
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] forgetting insulin


>I cannot remember when I have taken insulin.  Sometimes when I write it 
>down, it makes it worse.  Doing something, like putting it on the computer, 
>makes me think I have done with it and then don't take the insulin after I 
>have written it down.  I have tried it so many before and after.  This is 
>how I found the islet transplants are working already.  I forgot my lunch 
>novolog insulin and 3 hours later, my blood sugar was 120.  The docs have 
>told me they want me to continue insulin for 3 weeks after transplant, so I 
>have another week to go.   The islets should prevent blood sugar from 
>getting too low also.  About .5 unit before a meal is what I am going to 
>try.
> Even now, I'm still having trouble remembering if I took the insulin or 
> just thought about it and wrote it down.  Part of the problem is that I 
> take insulin after I eat, rather than before.
>
> Sally
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