What's In My Diabetes Bag?
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- čas přidán 3. 04. 2012
- A description of the diabetes supplies that I carry with me in my diabetes kit! :)
I forgot to mention Ketone Strips, I usually have those as well!
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Hi Danica, I have been using a bag/satchel/purse etc., I do not much care what other people call it. My whole life is in my bag. Diabetic supplies, in case my pump dies I have an insulin pen fully loaded. My blood sugar test machine Bayer Contour. Juice, power bars, cellphone. I carry my bag everywhere! Been using them for 30 years plus.
I keep all my stuff in my girlfriends purse which she lugs around. She's really kinda awesome like that. Started looking into the pump today, yours was the first channel I stumbled on. Have read a few comments unbelievable how some people were never hugged as childern. Your top three bad habits I do all of them except maybe the teststrips to the same degree. But my solutions for two of them are this just put kleenex in the mesh and replace it when it gets gross, and with the teststrips just keep the strips in the case and when the tube is empty pitch em in that or just use two tubes. Been diabetic for........20 years now. Cool channel congrats on nurse schooling (my girlfriend is a nurse awesome people) cheers thanks for the helpful information thanks from calgary canada.
+Cam Bowkowy If she is lugging around your stuff... you need to marry her quick
I have a old military bag I keep my log books,insulin, meter, needles, and test strips that clips onto my belt. Working on getting the pump so your videos are very helpful
I have the same problem with test strips!! I started to keep an empty Tic Tac container with me. I just slip the used strip in the opening and we're good to go.... its the perfect size and easily fits into any bag. [and a little more sanitary i guess] lol =] I love all your videos!! I was diagnosed type one about a year and a half ago and started the one touch ping about a week ago and your videos are so helpful!! Thank you so much!!
I use a used tic tac container to put my used test strips in, just a suggestion. I love your videos, keep up the great attitude!
genius!!
I have watched all of your videos Danica and it'ss great to hear a type 1 with a positive attitude about having this condition.I was diagnosed .
I love your positive attitude
You keep a good variety of supplies!! All those strips in my purse would make me nuts, though! LOL! I usually do zip mine up in my meter pack too, but every day or so, I end up dumping them into the trash. But I'm a stay-at-home mom & probably test more often at home than you do! Makes a big difference! Keep up the great positive attitude & helpful videos!
I carry my supplies around everywhere with a Vera Bradley purse/bag.
I'm a guy and I carry my diabetic supplies in a satchel. It's actually a Czech army shoulder bag, not a purse or a murse. The Chech army does not carry purses! :-) I'd actually bought it before my diagnoses to use while riding. It's great for carying water, air pump, head lamp and bike lock as well as meters, insulin, and snacks.
My 7 yr old son is type 1 we carry his supplies in a small camo backpack :) his glucometer, extra test strips, syringes, PDM for his omnipod, an extra pod incase his fails, juice boxes, fruit snacks, granola bars, glucose tabs, a pen, small water bottle, glucagon, and a vial of humalog :)
Hi again, Danica. I'm a guy and I am in a wheelchair. I carry my spare infusion set, meter and such in a backpack on the back of my chair :)
I carry my supplies in a small backpack like the hydration backpacks runners and mountain bikers wear. Inside I keep jelly beans, glucogon kit, hypostop, tissues, dextrose tablets, extra battery, insulin pen, usb cell phone charger, and a solar powered battery charger.
Yea your videos are helpful to many diabetics and non diabetics too
I am 22 years old and I am a type one diabetic. I am an EMT and am almost always on the go, so I have trouble remembering to bring my supplies with me. I use a 5.11 tactical sling bag to carry my supplies. It works great and I recommend this to any male who wants a "manly purse" to carry their supplies.
Totally left out the alcohol swabs in my little zipper pouch lol. I carry those with me too. If I run out it's ok I would just wash test/injection site with soap and water right before. But they're great.
Hi Danica, Yes I have been to the Banting House in London.Novo-Nordisk sent me a painting of it for my 50th anniversary as an Insulin Injecting type 1.It is now the head office for the Canadian Diabetes Association
Try Quicksticks, comes in Watermelon and sour Apple. 15 grams, can get it at Walmart in a box of 10 for about 5 dollars. Really love them.
That's a ton of test strips lol. I usually only find a few at the bottom of my purse. I carry what I call my 'dia-kit' in a little pink polka dot pencil zipper case thing that a friend gave me randomly as part of a birthday gift. I am a master of fitting everything I need into it. I carry my meter, test strip vial, lose lancets and pen needles, a pack of life savers and a small plastic bag of 2,000 mg of metformin. (Type 2) I used to take it all at night, but it gave me such bad side effects that way. Now I break it up into 4 doses a day and just take it whenever I'm eating. I used to carry my lantus pen with me, but recently decided to keep it at home since I always do it before bed anyway. It was nice to have with me in case I got stuck somewhere overnight though. It just doesn't quite fit with the addition of the life savers. And I don't want those just loose in my purse because I always end up with random bits of fuzz and dust and stuff in it and I'd rather not eat that lol. Maybe I'll just keep my pen in the purse separate. Im always looking for new container ideas for all my stuff. When I was first diagnosed and put on lantus I got this big case from lantus to carry everything in, but it was so big and ugly I hated it... This is at least cute lol. And I also keep a jar of glucose tabs in my car, and a few in my gym bag. Also, another good thing that doesn't really expire or Gerry's wrecked if it gets squished is those little applesauce pouches. They're great in a pinch.
As a diabetic guy I waive the flag proudly! I have a "bullet bag" (think messenger bag) with a giant Biohazard symbol on it. Inside of that I keep a metal case with my insulin pens, strips, needles, panic meds, glucose gel, an emergency pack of skittles (medical skittles). I'll have to update soon, start on Omnipod and G4 next week!
Hello aain Danica.I'm a real rookie at this computer stuff and I tried to respond to you question of when I was diagnosed,with no luck.So here we go.I was diagnosed in 1960 in London, Ontario.Insulin was discovered there.I see my Endocrinologist in London too.Still glad I watched all of your videos.YAHOOO
As a type one diabetic fifteen year old I carry it in wan "AIM" (diabetic organization) lunch box with test kit, glucagon, icing, and glucose tablets.
I clip the pump on my belt and put the cgm in my pocket or in a phone arm band. some candy in my pocket. Super easy these days. Of course I would not be as prepared as you for things. Once I was hundreds of miles from insulin when my pump went empty. I do keep a syringe near like in the glove box in case pump fails. I drove to a pharmacy and bought prescription insulin. Looks like you never drop used test strips which is good.
You mentioned you glucagon kit here in Canada we don't have the new one and the syringe is huge ! So it still comes in the vial powder. Yikes your lucky ! I want the new one
I have an artificial leg so I use a Maxapedition Fatty attached to a sling pack to hold both my extra “socks” for my leg, a meter to supplement my Dexcom G5, Insulin Pen, needles. Food, Glucose Tablets, M&Ms and such go in the Maxpedition.
I use a purple badged shoulder bag, but I change them every once in a while
I have an emoji bag and that's where I carry my diabetes stuff all around. This is the emoji bag: 😁
I just have a small messenger bag. Inside I keep a insulin pump, Glucose Quick Sticks, extra vile of insulin, extra syringes, snacks... Etc. I'm so luck to have an older sister, who's a type 1 diabetic also!
Im not a diabetic but i love watching your videos.... you could iron on your initials or cute patches if possible to a plain diabetes bags. :)
Will do. I go to the doctors august 1.
Hi DiabeticDanica I love the part of all the test strips have you tried a ziploc bag I use one about a medium size in my bag for all my used test strips I throw it out when it full that way I have no test strips at the bottom of my bag thanks
I carry my checker and pricker in a black cross body. I have not been diagnosed yet but they gave me a monitor and pricker to watch it.
I guess I'm atypical because I'm in a power wheelchair, so I have a cargo bag on my chair. I keep my meter, strips and finger pokers in there as well as a spare site change and cgm supplies. if I'm going to be out for a whole day, just in case.
At my camp my counselor told me a story of how her teacher thought her insulin pump was a phone so he snatched her pump and her pump tubing came out and she had to go home to get a new pump site.
My two most weird diabetic stuff in my purse is my diabetic proof paper and my "emergency skittles" too!
Cargo pants are great for carrying supplies around and I can get away with the look, but for those times where I cannot wear the pants there is always a cute mini backpack.
Just to clarify for anyone who is interested the 5.11 bag. It is very small and slings over like a single strap back pack so looks nothing like a purse lol. The bag is the 5.11 rush moab 6.
Hi danica do you have any plans to updated video on your diabetes bag i think i am do to make a new myself thanks
do u have to wait two hours before you can bolus again with the insulin pump
I keep my meter and stuff in the cargo bag on my wheelchair. Slick!
Can you do a updated version of this video?
Thanks! it helps so much!
I keep mine oin a backpack along with extra supplies snacks water ect. grab and put floorboard of my truck. always have it. forget my phone more often then backpack
Insulin pen and tester go in the pocket along with glucose tabs. My girlfriend is awesome! Whenever we leave the house she says "Wallet, Keys, Tester, Phone, Insulin, Tabs" That way I don't forget anything :-). I have forgotten my tester and insulin before and it sucks when you are getting ready to order and you don't have it.
Hey I really loved this video and you have given me a new Idea of what my next video on CZcams should be about, So Thanks. I just started buying last year something called Glucose Quick Sticks. You can find them either online on their website or at your local Walmart in the Diabetes Isle. They come in Watermelon and Sour Green Apple. they taste Pixie Sticks! You should try them out!
Do you know how a canadian can get one of the new glucagon kits?
You should do a video about College life...and how you managed your diabetes!This video was pretty cool :)
I use just a messenger bag or when I'm in school it's all in one pocket of my backpack... Having diabetes and colitis I carry A LOT of medical supplies, basically now I don't go anywhere without my bag, even if I just leave it in the car for quick errands... Going for runs has been the hardest, I usually end up running around the neighbourhood since I don't like carrying things when I run, this limits me from running with friends but until I figure out a solution that's what I do
i dont have diabetes but i carry all the things i need for asthma in a daw string bag so that my family always knows were it is. ps i a getting tesedfor diabetes next week any advise on that i have been showing signs for a while and i am terfied of needles.
Hi love you vids but. I am trying to get my a1c down and. It is really hard sense sugar and salt are in everything. Help please thanks
im a guy i normally put stuff in my jeans pocket and sweater i put a snack and juice box in sweater and put a vile and syringe in my meater and my meater in my pocket... btw i dont have a pump. does the pump give you more freedome?
It would be cool if you can make a video about school and diabetes
I keep my supplies in a mini backpack with my name monogrammed on it!!
I am the same with the test strips! They are EVERYWHERE!! (:
Roxy... the quick stics... they probably are just about as effective as pixie sticks would be, and ten times as expensive... but that gives me a good idea I hadn't thought of... ill bet each one of those regular pixie sticks is about 5 grams of carbs and would be easy to carry and work really well for lows! But like I wouldn't use expensive gels when I can carry a bit of natural honey, I probably wouldn't pay big money for special diabetic pixie sticks either heh. Now real supplies like glucagon, insulin and the like.. that is one thing.. but sugar is pretty much sugar, though you want one without fat initially (though I have found that if I follow up with fatty sugar, like chocolate, I am not as likely to get a secondary low, so, fast sugar like honey or pixie sticks (honey is a double sugar and being liquid is my favorite for fast acting, especially as it is less likely to choke you if you are having any reaction.. dry sugar they say is good but chokes me) then when my sugar starts coming back up, a small piece of chocolate is a good stabilizer if I cant get to REAL food, like protein...Danica, im sure you have a video out there that says something similar?
I use a over the shoulder bag.
Just curious, have you ever actually used Glucagon ?
Hi Danica,
I was just wondering if u have an animas 2020 pump and if u lived in Australia
Do u still have that kit I would love to see it
What insulin do you use
How do you deal with going out to eat?
i used to use a pink bag
U can get a pump that goes in like a needle
omg... that thing when you opened your kit... yeah. so many times, so many public places LOL. And the bottom of my purse, if I cleaned out all the rest of the trash first, would definitely look just like that LOL. Cept all my strips look alike cause right now I only have one working meter. Around my house though there are like five other kinds of strips in vials laying around, most of them expired LOL. Ah, the life of the diabetic. I think the word you were looking for, about your first diabetes bag, would be, "utilitarian" meaning it does what it needs to do but isn't exactly stylish. I need a bigger bag, stuff is always falling out of my purse LOL. Not great when one of the things is my test kit, WITH my insulin pens. I had to go to the er for a bad burn that wouldn't heal the other day, and after sitting there for two hours I realized I didn't have my kit and I was feeling lowish... bleh. Guess it was the place to be if I was going to have a diabetic emergency, eh? But I was fine, they got me in and out before hubby could even bring me my kit after that, and when I got it my sugar was only 86, so not really low, either I was having a false low, or my liver took care of it heh.
Did you ever use a Real inslin pen i do right now :)
Hi, my best friend Destanee has type 1 diabeates how can I help out ?
I sometimes wonder what people would say if I talked into it?
THANK YOU !
My favorite sweatshirt has huge pockets
you should make a video about when you were diagnosed
Ever been so low that you were nearly paralyzed and when you try to scream this horrific noise comes out as if you're deaf. I scared myself by that sound, fell out of my bed and crawled to my kitchen to my fridge for the juice in there. I said I crawled but my chin hit the floor several times. When I was in my wet bed I tried moving my arm from one side to the other but before it was done moving it dropped because my brain didn't keep the command I gave it to move. Very strange especially if you try to speak! SCARY! That was the worst. I think it took me half hr. to get to fridge.
Im on a backpack. Meter bag. Insulin bag with heavy ice brick. A cute 1 pint plastic bottle that unscrews for a small sharps box. My 7 inch tablet to log entries and internet. I need to start packing low snacks.
i throw them away when a big pile forms lol. i got to stop doing that (:
What do you take for like a trip. You mentioned a Disney Land ticket.
I have a messenger bag and I got a blue bookbag with rufus the bear in it
good video. we can relate i usually leave my dirty strips in the bag :P
Yea no problem :)
I get embrassed when i have low blood sugar during class and i have to eat. And i go to a christian school and they told me i did something bad in my life to get a disesase and i cried. It really didnt make any sense when they said that....
The bottoms of our bags look the same!!!
ewww used test strips!! I thought I was the only one that find those on the bottom of my purse. Do you use alcohol pads? Also do you scrub out/disinfect pouches and purse? And my final question what does everyone use to blot the blood? I end up with a red and white poka dot tissue. These are things that no one taught me. We seem to have to wing it. Also since you need batteries so much do you think you should have a solar or crank power source in case of a storm?
+Joe Jon Hi ! In order to avoid red and white poka dot tissue, I use to put my lancet at low measure ( the mximum is 5, but I have it on 2) becouse you only need the minimum blood for the glucometer to work, you don't really need to much blood, just a little pick, then, after I put the blood on the glucometer, I pres with some piece of a soft dry napkin and hold it for 2-5 minutes in order to absorb the blood. Then for 10-15 or even 30 minutes I avoid putting that finger in contact with liquids, so I avoid washing hands or stuff or getting cream on my hands... it is good to also desinfect the finger before you take your glucose check in order for the inpurities not to end into the broken tissue made by the niddle pick and make the healing process last longer. For me it works. Good luck !
babis
thank you babis, I think I need to switch strips.
I dont have diabetes but bought one for my disorder for my meds
I have a camouflage diabetes kit
DANICA! hey, i don't know if you remember me..but this is aubrey from GCC i was working on a marketing project and looking at JDRF videos and it led me to you! hope you're doing well, seems like you are!
I have a little bag with all my needles in it
i have a sugar kit with a strap.
I use a little backpack
The old one the blue one if u know what I mean because I do this time :)
The used test strips is me with my diabetes bag kit!!! Haha
hello, I am a 13 (turning 14 in 5 days)year old diabetic and usualy I mix it uip a bit like one day ill carry my tester on a lanyard or in a pencil case or in a small black bag it gives diabetes a bit of fun or diference
I have a bag that is camo and fit it all in their
I have an Omni pod somebody thought it was a tracker
And I meant pen, as I wear my pump!
I have it
ur meant to keep the glucogun in a fridge
I'm diabetic and I carry my stuff all in my pockets I have a animus vibe pump
I use a make up bag
How old is she????
i had to show a marketing tactic/commercial so i showed one of jdrf's and your video was just on the related videos, and i've been pretty good, just schoolin, yourself?
I Carrie mine in my back pack
i sent you a PM earlier. did you read it.