Oh wow, how’s this for a strange happening? Remember how we have talked a couple times about insulin having a date to be thrown away, even if there is still some left in the bottle? I mentioned that my Lantus bottle and information page said to throw it away after 28 days. Bill was just telling me a few minutes ago (he just got up from sleeping from work, gets home at 3:00 a.m.) about a guy who is another skilled trades worker at GM had been gone from work for over a week and was finally back at work last night. Turns out he has been in hospital for the past week. He is diabetic and he got really sick and was hospitalized. His glucose was way off, but they couldn’t figure out why since he was telling them he was taking his shots as supposed to. Well, they of course used their Lantus from the hospital’s supply and his glucose immediately started showing different than it had been. It took a few days of everyone wondering what was going on, but he happened to mention that a
bottle of it “lasted forever” and the nurse asked him what he meant by that. He said he had been using his for 3 months and would be on his 4th month in a few more days. He had never read the information nor the instructions that came with it. The doctor explained that it has to be thrown away after 28 days. He didn’t believe him. They had his wife bring in his bottle from home and tested it and showed him the test, and what the results of it was: the insulin had been loosing it’s strength and by the age it was that he was using it, it was not giving him the amount of insulin he needed. So even though he was taking the correct units of insulin, it was too week to do any good. He ended up so sick from it he had to be hospitalized. And it is a good thing he went to the emergency room. If he had not had it checked out he could have had more serious happen to him. He could have even died, because of not getting the insulin.
Love and best wishes,
Sue
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1 Von Delta // Jan 10, 2004 at 1:45 pm
I have said it all along drugs once opn loose potencey when I worked on teh ambulnce we threw away probly 900 bucks worth of drugs evry moth. sAME WITH WORKING HAS A WILD LAND FRE PARAMEIDC. IN MY PERSON DRUG BAG I THROW AWAY ALL MEDS THAT HAVE BEEN OPEND for 28 days
Oh wow, how’s this for a strange happening? Remember how we have talked a couple times about insulin having a date to be thrown away, even if there is still some left in the bottle? I mentioned that my Lantus bottle and information page said to throw it away after 28 days. Bill was just telling me a few minutes ago (he just got up from sleeping from work, gets home at 3:00 a.m.) about a guy who is another skilled trades worker at GM had been gone from work for over a week and was finally back at work last night. Turns out he has been in hospital for the past week. He is diabetic and he got really sick and was hospitalized. His glucose was way off, but they couldn’t figure out why since he was telling them he was taking his shots as supposed to. Well, they of course used their Lantus from the hospital’s supply and his glucose immediately started showing different than it had been. It took a few days of everyone wondering what was going on, but he happened to mention that a
bottle of it “lasted forever” and the nurse asked him what he meant by that. He said he had been using his for 3 months and would be on his 4th month in a few more days. He had never read the information nor the instructions that came with it. The doctor explained that it has to be thrown away after 28 days. He didn’t believe him. They had his wife bring in his bottle from home and tested it and showed him the test, and what the results of it was: the insulin had been loosing it’s strength and by the age it was that he was using it, it was not giving him the amount of insulin he needed. So even though he was taking the correct units of insulin, it was too week to do any good. He ended up so sick from it he had to be hospitalized. And it is a good thing he went to the emergency room. If he had not had it checked out he could have had more serious happen to him. He could have even died, because of not getting the insulin.
Love and best wishes,
Sue
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