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In which room(s) of your home do you store diabetes supplies? Select all that apply and share how you organize your supplies in the comments!
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I store items to raise my glucose in an end table beside my bed. In my bedroom closet is where I keep my dexcom and tandem pump supplies. I keep my glucometer and my skin-tac in the bathroom.
I have a FL room with an extra fridge and keep my insulin in the crisper drawer.
The boxes of supplies I am currently using are in the bathroom. The other boxes from my 3 month supply are in the basement.
Main supplies above the refrigerator. Insulin in the refrigerator. Supplies for immediate us, on hand, next to the dining room table, where I put on my CGM’s, cannulars, etc. Closet in hallway, any old, unused supplies.
My bedroom closet!
Pump and dex supplies in dresser drawer. Glucose tabs in kitchen cabinet and nightstand. Adhesive, skin barrier wipes, alcohol wipes in bathroom
I have main supplies for pump and cgm in closet in bins, insulin in fridge. A small bin with the supplies for when I’m changing sensor, a drawer in bathroom for a few supplies I Ned to add insulin and change reservoirs and insets. Cupboard underneath sink for alcohol, medical hand wash and alcohol wipes. I carry my bg and meter kit where ever I go………
Everywhere! It’s everywhere!
My pump and CGM supplies and an open insulin vial are in the bathroom linen closet. Unopened Insulin is in a drawer in the kitchen refrigerator. Glucose tabs and jelly beans are in almost every room in the house.
most in kitchen closet with insulin in fridge. do have supplies overnight in bathroom in case I go low since that forces me to get out of bed to deal with it. Libre2 readings not always reliable in bed.
Most of my supplies are stored in a kitchen cabinet, with currently opened boxes of reservoirs and bladders in my living toom and overflow on a shelf in my laundry room. Extra insulin is stored in the refrigerator, of course.
We have a closet in a mud room by our back door where most supplies are kept. We have an exit plan if we needed to leave in a hurry. We also have a fully stocked “medical bag” in our basement with close to a months supply of infusion sets/Cgm supplies/syringes, etc. There is also a fridge down there with extra insulin, and several ice packs in the freezer along with an insulated bag in case power goes out. Our son, now eleven, is very invested in being prepared for disasters.It helps him feel safe. Not what you asked, but…
Insulin, of course, is in the fridge. All other supplies are on a shelf in my master bedroom closet.
Daily basket of supplies if in the kitchen. Insulin in fridge. A pack of juice is upstairs in the bathroom for nighttime lows. And all excess/stockpiles supplies is in a janky dresser in the basement.
I’m a musician and have a music studio in my house. I store some of my overflow supplies in there.
Basic supplies in the bathroom. Insulin in fridge. Overflow and back up (extra pump, etc) under the bed 🙂
Glucose in the rooms I use. Pump supplies in the living room in a cute wooden box/chest that closes. If I can fit the Dexcom box in there too I do, otherwise it sits on top. Current insulin vial either on my desk or a side table in the living room. Sharps=little ones in an empty glucose tab container (hubby is T2D so he uses that too), but the Dexcom & infusion set sharps are still in boxes until I can figure out how to dispose of them properly.
I keep my insulin supply and snacks in the kitchen. I keep my flextouch pens and glucose meter on a tray table next to my recliner in the living room where I spend a lot of my daytime hours. My phone, which is my dexcom sensor reader, is next to my bedside at night when I’m sleeping.
Glucose tabs and extra supplies like G7 supplies, insulin pen needles, test strips, Frio packs.
Kitchen has insulin and I keep my pens on counter as I use several times a day. Box of pen needles in drawer for easy reach.
Oh and glucose tabs in purse and car.
I have magnetic containers on my fridge. One stores all my used needles (that I later dump into an appropriate container). The other one has my needles, insulin pen and glucose monitor. Love having everything right in front of my on the fridge. Of course unused insulin in the fridge. In my bathroom cabinet, I store my CGMs and have clear plastic drawers (4 drawers for each storage container). The drawers have syringes, bandaids, alcohol wipes, my Lexcam adhesive patches for my G7 (much better than Dexcom’s flimsy patches), lancets, meter strips.
In the kitchen: insulin is in the fridge, Tandem pump supplies and Dexcom CGM supplies in kitchen cabinets and two utility carts along with alcohol swabs, lancets, glucose meter, CGM overpatch supplies, glucose tabs on kitchen counter. In bedroom on nightstand, glucose tabs, in nightstand extra glucose test strips. There are various new and old supplies throughout the entire apartment.
Forgot to include two gallon size sharps containers that are on a utility cart in the kitchen.
I keep unused boxes of syringes and lancets and old backup bg meters in a kitchen closet. Fridge contains fresh vials of insulins. Vials of in-use insulins at room temp in bedroom w/ in-use syringes, and finger-stick meter. Box in bedroom for alcohol, cotton swabs, fresh Dexcom sensors. Sugar cubes everywhere in empty pill bottles/empty finger strip containers. Dexcom receiver is in my pocket during day, on bedside table at night getting recharged. Also move syringes and insulins and finger stick meter to bedside table at night. When I leave house finger stick meter, and pre-loaded syringes go in backpack.
I keep Fiasp in the fridge. An armoire in the master bedroom stores my pump supplies, syringes, batteries, extra glucose meters, testing strips and tape. Rubbing alcohol, ketone strips and skin lotions/oils are kept in the bathroom. Some glucoses tabs are strategically left in the main rooms of the house like living room, and bathrooms.
I accidentally marked Laundry room instead of just bedroom. I keep a box of each supply in a tote bag in a closet. The backup equipment is stowed in the back of the closet in a box. So, when I need to change something, I just need to use the tote bag. Inside the tote bag, I have a plastic zip lock bag with 1-3 times change needs. So I just need to grab the plastic bag is I am changing my infusion set or CGM
I keep my CGM supplies in my bedroom closet, my insulin in the refrigerator and syringes in a kitchen cabinet.
I keep a good supply in our basement where we have to go if we have a tornado warning. I have a months supply along with snacks! And in my closet I have an evacuation box of to grab and go!
In my bedtime closet. Stored in the boxes they came in.
You have asked this question before.
I store my diabetes supplies on two designated shelves in a closet located between my dining room and living room.
All pads are kept together, reservoirs, separate from CGM, separate infusion sets. With single glance know which items need to be reordered
Glucose tablets in every room and car. Insulin in butter section of the fridge, Trulicity in fridge. Pump, CGM supplies plus Glucagon and reserve meds in y loft/sewing room. Weekly pill container is in my bedroom closet. Electric charger upstairs and in the living room. I need a regeneration chamber like 7 of 9 in Star Trek!😝🥰🌸🏡💉⏱️📟
Hallway linen closet.
I keep at least one box of pods and a spare dexcom sensor (along with my skin prep wipes) in my bedroom, my office, and my living room. The hard part is where to keep the open insulin, it usually lives in the bedroom but if I know I’ll need a pod change elsewhere it’ll move with me. All of my “spare” supplies live under my bed (I specifically purchased a bed frame with cabinets and drawers for this reason). My insulin and ozempic takes up about half of my fridge! Supplies for older systems that I no longer use tend to live in the basement for quite a while. I do keep a sharps container in both the bedroom and the living room.
Large basket holds pump and CGM supplies. Insulin kept in fridge.
I have an armoire in my bedroom that holds all of my pump supplies, tapes/adhesives, sensors and everything else except insulin. That’s in the door of my fridge.
Insulin in the refrigerator in both garage and kitchen (in case one freezes it).
Pump supplies in closet and in the bathroom in a closed vanity .