Forgot to Bolus and feeling kinda dumb about it...

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Permalink Reply by MelissaM on November 2, 2009 at 10:12pm

I have done it. a few times actually, the first time I did it was when I ate popcorn once. another time it was when I had breakfast.

the time I forgot to bolus for the popcorn, when I did finally check my blood It read HI. I was so shocked that I immediately took like 10 units of insulin via a syringe. then kept a close eye on my numbers. after 2 hours it went down to 200 something.

the time I forgot to bolus for breakfast I checked 2 hours later and it was only 290 something. I was lucky that time.

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Permalink Reply by Denise on November 2, 2009 at 10:13pm

many of us have done it--and some of us (she sheepishly grins) have done it more than a few times...my biggest time to miss is lun ch at work--very easy to get distracted :-(

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Permalink Reply by Robyn on November 2, 2009 at 10:19pm

Oh yes....I have done it quite a few times. Sometimes you just forget....Human. :)

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Permalink Reply by Gerri on November 2, 2009 at 11:34pm

Been there. Also forgot to take my bedtime Levemir a couple of times--oops. You're not alone in forgetting & feeling dumb about it.

Your family's right. Just a mistake & move forward.

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Permalink Reply by Louisa on November 3, 2009 at 4:03am

Don't beat yourself up Leanna, I've done it (quite alot :oS) Life gets in the way sometimes, brain fog.... distractions. So easily done x x x

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Permalink Reply by Elizabeth S. on November 3, 2009 at 4:40am

I used to do this ALLLLL the time. I've gotten a lot better, now it's just eeevery once in a while. Don't feel too bad about it. Sometimes our brains must just say, "NOPE I'm not going to be a pancreas right now, I need a break!"

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Permalink Reply by Leanna on November 3, 2009 at 6:20am

Thanks everyone :) Hearing from other that did the same thing helps alot :)

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Permalink Reply by Terry Keelan on November 3, 2009 at 7:13am

Yeah, it's just you.


No, I'm kidding. Of course, I've done it. More than once. It happens because we're hungry or in a hurry or distracted in some way. Sometimes we think we DID give a bolus but . . . no.

So just use it as a lesson and a reminder for your next bolus.


Terry

P.S. No, really, it never happened to anyone else.
P.P.S. Kidding again.

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Permalink Reply by Mike Shaw on November 3, 2009 at 9:56am

I have been there and done that. It is so easy to forget at times. Don't beat yourself up. It happens to the best of us. I have forgotten at all meal sittings, so I don't have one time frame that I usually forget. It is called life's distractions.

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Permalink Reply by Leanna on November 3, 2009 at 3:50pm

Thanks you guys :) Glad to hear I'm not alone!!!

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