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Do you store your unopened insulin in the refrigerator?
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I store ALL of my insulin in the refrigerator, except the insulin I’m using in my pump, of course.
Yes, I have a special refridgerator just for insulin, and I only take out the vial to refill the pump.
I store all insul, including opened in frig
Yes, or after a month, all the vials would be unuseable
Supposed to be refrigerated isn’t it???
I was always taught that unopened insulin should be stored in the refrigerator and that is what I have always done. Now that I am on a pump and have been for many years now, I keep the vial that I am currently using in my medical bag since you should not use refrigeratored insulin in an insulin pump.
Unopened yes. Once opened it sits in a kitchen drawer. I hate putting cold insulin in a syringe or pump!
I store both my opened and unopened insulin in the refrigerator.
Don’t have
Yes, all of it. The open vial that I’m currently using is in the butter compartment. All the rest is stored on the side of three shelves with the date of the prescription marked on the box.
Yup! All of it. Mine is in the butter compartment, too! My family has never been able to use the butter compartment for butter! ;p
Yes, it’s in the door of my fridge. The current vial I keep in a small case, along with 2 extra infusion sets, a cartridge, a couple of syringes and various wipes, and that stays in my bag.
This is interesting! I haven’t stored insulin in the fridge for years, now. I prob’ly stopped keeping it in there when I went on a pump, but I never put insulin in the fridge and as far as I know it hasn’t caused me any problems.
My Script allows me 6 Vials which last 6 Months. On Dex G6 and Tandem X2 w/CIQ. In Jan 2023 my A1c was 5.4 🙂
Old habits die hard…… Mom was told it had to stay refrigerated back in 1966. I still keep all my vials in the fridge