Good Thing God Looks After Fools!!! - Osteoporosis Message Board

CrohnieToo · 08-24-2005, 04:42 PM

Well, I managed to pull a real boner. Sigh. Yesterday was a pretty busy day and I was tired. I did my Forteo deed .... and don't ask me how or why I managed to do it, but I managed to go back upstairs w/o putting the Forteo back in the frige and left it laying on the kitchen snack bar in its open travel case w/cold packs. All night long.

Fortunately, there was that delay between picking up the Forteo script and actually taking the first dose .... so I'm able to get the second fill of the Forteo script now. God looks after fools and I sure must keep him busy!

Altho the house is cool and the pen was in the travel case with the cool packs, the case was left open, laid out flat, so I just can't be sure that the Forteo wasn't "ruined". Gads, I think of all the money.... (Don't tell my insurance company I pulled such a stupid boner!).

taape · 08-24-2005, 07:17 PM

Oh, ChronieToo,
I'm sorry to hear that you forgot about putting the pen back in the refirgerator. Are you keeping the pen in the travel case all the time? Don't worry as doing the shot and putting the pen back in the refrigerator will become habit. I can't even forget my routine of the shot, the pen, etc., even if I try after a year of this. Last year I had a disagreement with the Endocrinologist about how long the pen could be out of the refrigerator for traveling. I called Eli Lilly and never got a definite yes or no, just keep it cool. He insisted that it was ok to have the pen out in 70 degree temperature for up to 14 hours per month. If your house was cooler than that maybe the pen was still good to use. But I prefer to just keep it cool.

CrohnieToo · 08-24-2005, 08:44 PM

Am sure house was below 70 most of the 9-10 hours but that was continuous rather than accumulative 14 hours, if you understand what I'm trying to say. I'm just so darned disgusted w/myself for doing something so stupid. Ah well, off to bed I go. Hope you all rest well tonight.TTYT.

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taape · 08-24-2005, 10:45 PM

ChronieToo,
Don't get too down on yourself. We all make mistakes. I had a real rocky start with the Forteo thinking that there was something wrong with the pen and had to be off of it while a replacement was sent. 2 months later after it was analyzed --"no problem" from the manufacturer. Boy, I felt stupid but then I didn't know what to do so erred on the safe side like your doing.

newbones · 08-25-2005, 10:18 AM

Crohnie Too,
First of all, I want to congratulate you on finally doing "it" and becoming one of the group!
Secondly, don't be too hard on yourself for your goof. As taape says "We all make mistakes." Let me tell you about my big goof. We just returned from our road trip which I had been worried about regarding keeping the Forteo cool while on the road for several days. Well, I had decided that I would put the pen in the little travel case with the cool packs and put that in the styrofoam chest with the ice packs from the specialty pharmacy and switch to ice later on if necessary. My husband later convinced me that a six-pack cooler would work just as well and fit more conveniently in our car. The day before we were to leave I put the travel case with the cold packs in the fridge to get cold. That night I took my Forteo injection and put the pen back in the fridge (I should have put it in the travel bag then, but I didn't, thinking that I would get it all ready the next morning. Duh!). The next morning, as I was getting ready to leave, my husband, trying to be helpful, took the travel bag out of the fridge and put it in the cooler with the ice packs. He told me what he had done and I didn't think anything about it until we were about 3 hours into our trip. Suddenly, a light went off and I said "I don't think I have my Forteo." My husband asked if it wasn't in the travel bag and I told him that I hadn't put it in there, and, of course, he didn't think to look! Just to be sure I hadn't done it and forgotten about it, I checked the cooler and sure enough, it wasn't there. My husband asked if we needed to go back to get it, but that would have pretty much wasted our first day as it would have taken at least 9 hours to get 3 hours down the road. I thought about calling my doctor when we got to our destination to see if I could get a prescription there since we were going to be gone two weeks. But I figured my insurance wouldn't pay for it as I'm not due for a refill for another month. So I decided to just not worry about it until I got back home. Unfortunately, I had just started a new pen a few days before we left, so now after 28 days I will have only used about half the pen. I just hope the two-week interruption won't set me back.