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In which room(s) of your home do you store diabetes supplies? Select all that apply.
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Tubing, sensors, emergency kit, lancets all live in the closet. Alcohol swabs, alcohol, cotton balls, IV-preps, and sharps disposal all live in the bathroom where most of the action occurs. The charger gets its own private room in the computer room. The insulin lives in the refrig.
Ahh, and the glucose tablets get to live in both cars, the garage and the bedroom. They must be the most happiest of all. (•‿•◍)
Very similar to my storage plan!
I store my insulin in crisper drawer in extra refrigerator in our Florida room.
Many places sensors and pump supplies in closet, strips and snacks in frig and bedside, and kitchen closet, insulin
frig, but I have one of everything in a carry on bag in the closet next to my frig in case of EMERGENCY
Bedroom, kitchen, bathroom and a drawer in the living room.
I, like most diabetics, have a “medical supply box’, which I happen to keep in the basement. Also, I have diabetic supplies all over. This disease not only takes up a lot of my time but a lot of room.
Mostly in boxes on a shelf above the stairway to the upstairs.
All depends on what you mean by supplies.
My Dexcom and pump supplies are in my bedroom bottom drawer
Glucose tabs and SOS powder is in the kitchen and bedroom
Opsite Flextape, Sensi care skin barrier, alcohol wipes in bathroom
Extra supplies, old pumps etc. in tub in basement
I have an assortment of supplies, readily available, in a buffet next to the dining room table. This is what I use daily. The main assortment of supplies are in cabinets above the refrigerator in the kitchen. Of course, the insulin is inside the refrigerator.
I think the most important considerations for storage include storing supplies at a safe temperature range, keeping supplies out of reach of children, and organization for easy access and inventory.
I have an armoire in my bedroom that has all of my pump stuff in it, along with test strips, tapes, old pumps etc. My insulin is kept in a plastic bin in the fridge door.
Bar fridge
Unused insulin must live in the refrigerator. Daily insulin is in a half bathroom away from humidity, extra heating, and temperature variations in the main bathroom.
We we remodeled our kitchen, I added a special drawer for my daily medicines.
I wrote bathroom, but that is where current pump supplies are. I store everything in the bedroom closet
The need for additional storage space keeps growing. Insulin(fridge), CGM sensors and some pump supplies are in the kitchen. Boxes galore of current pump supplies, Animas pump supplies, disposable syringes, pen needles, and lancets are in the studio/second bedroom.
Extra insulin in bottles and pens live in the butter compartment in the fridge. Pump, CGM, and other diabetes lifestyle & self-care supplies live on two shelves in a small hallway closet next to the dining room. It is dry, temperature controlled and safe in the center of the house. I keep oral meds taken daily in a little tray on the kitchen counter. Baqsimi glucagon, Transcend glucose gel, and apple juice packs live in drawer in bedside nightstand.
None in a “spare” room. I use the dining room hutch, my regular office, etc.
I added “other” because, while my supplies are in a closet in my bedroom, my insulin is in the refrigerator.
Purse. It’s where I keep my glucometer so I am never without it and snacks. Otherwise, refridge, closet for insulin supplies, bedroom armoire for my insulated bag that I keep pump supplies and what I transport them in when traveling.
THEY ARE EVERYWHERE!
I have a box of supplies to change out my sensor and a box of supplies to change out my insulin pump, both stored in a drawer in the master bathroom. The new supplies are in the basement, I bring them up a box at a time. Insulin in the fridge.
I also have supplies in my car.
A closet in my bedroom.
A closet in my computer room along with all my writing supplies, along with my printer stuff, U.S. Navy memorabilia.
My pump supplies live in my closet until I need them; my meter stays with me, but extra test strips are kept in my bedroom nightstand; my ketone strips, naturally, are in the bathroom. I didn’t select kitchen, but I guess the insulin lives there since it’s in the fridge.
Extra supplies are kept in the car for when traveling.
Now I keep them in two cubbies of one of those Ikea cube shelves in my living room but before I lived in this house I kept them in a kitchen cupboard. This house has such a small kitchen I had to keep them somewhere else.