Im very glad that I found this channel and again thank you so much for making me feel less alone on the Diabetes journey ❤😢

I have a similar system for the same reason. Each supply has a spot, or box. Same spot and only that supply. So it is very intuitive what is low by just looking. Then it is one less this thing to think about. Supplies that have random demands, similar to glucose gel. These have two boxes. One I always grab from. The second is always back up and full. Then if life happens….need more than normal….can’t refill right away. There is the second box to pull from. A comfortable safety net when a lows happens, knowing it is always available.

It's better when everything is organized especially to know if running low on anything i need💙

I have the most immediate supplies in a bathroom cabinet, and the backup supplies are in a cabinet in the laundry room. Immediate supplies are pump site changes, and strips, Lancets, and a meter. The backup supplies are the unused G7 boxes, unused pump supplies, lancet boxes, strips boxes etc. everything is within 12 feet of one another. Great video.

Andrea, your videos are so comforting, and your warmth radiates through the screen. My organization could be streamlined, but it works for now. I'm type 2 and old school with my supplies. My insulin pen needles and lancets are kept in a drawer of a bedside nightstand. Test strips are in a kitchen cabinet next to the medications I take for my kidney transplant, and insulin pens are stored in a refrigerator in the basement. My glucose tablets are on the nightstand, with a travel tube in my glove compartment that I refill as necessary. Stay strong and as upbeat as possible! Adam

Hello Andrea I recently reorganised my supplies but mines in our shoe cupboard! lol. It really helps as you say to be able to quickly see what you have. Just even the simplest things you do keep me motivated and know that we are not alone Thank you

I am so glad you made this video. I am wanting to organize my Diabetes supplies as well. I really need to. I am now a pump user but I still have a lot of my supplies left from when I was taking injections. I know I will feel much better afterwards once I can get everything in order. Please continue to make your encouraging, inspiring videos. ☺️ I enjoy them.

Great video, you’re very organized! I love watching your videos, thank you!!👍🏻

Thank you so much for your time sharing all these tips. I’ve learned so much from your videos.

OMG - past Andrea and future Andrea. Me too! I do much of the same, except I'm MDI. And I have more non-diabetes pills so they get space in my stash too (HBP, etc.) I love the Stasher reusable bags for quick trip "extras" and highly recommend the vial protectors. Lost a brand new bottle of Lantus many moons ago before they were around (in a Tim Hortons, no less!). Appreciate the video! ✌️

I am blind with almost no sense of touch. I track everything in a spreadsheet and keep supplies in stackable tubs with nfc stickers to easily find things. My local pharmacy also helps keep track of when I should need refills of everything. There's a lot to keep track of with diabetes and heart failure.

Andrea you should do a video on Correction Factor. You did that video about carb counting that used your insulin to carb ratio as an example. You should do one about how people who use MDIs estimate how much insulin is given for as a correction.

This is a great way to organize your supplies. ❤Definitely need to organize mine. 😂

I love learning how others organise their diabetes supplies, I always take a tip or two away. I have made kits for each action (1 for pump site changes, 1 for CGM changes, 1 for emergency situations etc) and put my bulk things in bins and just top up as I go. Each kit has everything I might need (needles, swaps, tape, adhesive removal wipes, patches etc) and I just grab the kit and my insulin out the fridge and I’m good to go 💛

Yep! I have a similar system; however, I have translucent boxes. . To this point, I’ve used the GoStak for treats. In fact, I have a GoStak in every room of the house! And I take a GoStak with me whenever I travel in the car🙂 Now, thanks to you, I will use the GoStak for supplies and take those with me in the car😊 ❤GoStak and you!❤

Thankyou for sharing Andrea, what ever we can do to make us feel more secure is very important. I keep my glucose tablets on the top shelf of the food pantry, with all my spare freestyle libre sensors, (I get 6 sensors at a time, and when fien to the last 2, reorder. Also keep a spare box of pen needle ends there, as well as box of lancets. My everyday go-to is a cooler smash bag , has two zipped compartments, with glucose meter, glucagon hypo kit, insulin scrips, glucose test strips, ketone strips, and the libre2 meter for ketones. Just leave my pens on top of bag. My spare insulin in a hard plastic lunch box in the fridge . Take care, Rex

Thank you very much for posting videos with your story. I appreciate them greatly. My son was diagnosed in December and you gave me much needed hope. Keep up the great work!

Those tubes for the glucose tabs should be clear or a translucent white for the purpose of eyeballing the full tubes

any information is always helpful for newly diagnosed, and thank you for sharing

I have been doing MDI for a couple of years. Excited to start Omnipod 5. Received my Intro box last week. I have everything I need to start, just waiting for the training to be scheduled. Thank you for creating these videos.

Thanks you for the wisdom that you share. God bless you and your husband. A personal request: please contiue your uplifting videos 😂❤

Hello Andrea! Lovely to see you back here on KZfaq! I’m having some stubborn blood sugars and I have been rewatching some of your earlier videos to try and figure out some strategies to help. You were one of the first online diabetic people I discovered when I was first diagnosed. Should I mention that you were just reaching 500 subscribers? Hope all is going well with you.

Great video. I have very my supplies organized in a similar fashion. One thing I have done recently is to keep some basic supplies at my office too. I had my pump run out of insulin at the office once so it made sense to start that tradition. Luckily my office is close to home so it wasn’t a real emergency.

Thanks for sharing your organisation system! I need to look into getting those vial rubbers.

Hi Hon! I am new here. Diabetic 25 years. I use Medical Supply Corner. They have saved me so much money on my needles. I use the pen and my hubby does too. 100 needle for 7.00. If you are planning ahead, like you spoke about. Its another discount. I think over 78.00? They are super fast, and so nice to deal with. I get my wipes from Amazon. But not always. I check the prices then buy. Hope this helps someone.

love the grab-n-go box :) with a pen!! genius lol i feel like i worked out a similar system for myself for the same reasons - to take a load off of my brain a bit. i'm a messy and forgetful person, i can forget to give myself insulin sometimes, so organizing for the sake of future me is crucial 😄

I had to laugh when you talked about changing lancets or not. I have had type 1 for 46 years. Early on I was neurotic about changing them each time. Certainly not know. As longbas the lancet still pokes my finger I am good. Regarding organizing, I have a linen closet in my bathroom that I keep my pump and sensor supplies in and my ketone test strips are in drawar near my toilet. . I.have a bottle of glucose tablets at my bedside, on the kichen counter, and in my car. I carry a tube of glucose tabs in my purse. I also have a box in my closet that has old glucose meters and no test strips and another box with my books re pumps and diabetes. I likely have to purge some of this lol. Thanks for sharing.

OMG! I need to get a few of those vial protectors. I’ve been lucky a couple of times when I drop a vial on the tile floor. My supplies are in a large wheeled container that’s under the bed. Time to reorganize! Thanks for this video.

I do exactly what you do, it's the only way to be in control of your suppliers 😊

You are much more organized than I'm, but my wife would love it when I was so organized 😁. In my case it is mostly put the box I just received from the hospital near the previous box that is not yet empty in the closet. I have also a big plastic box with all the stuf I'm currently using. More then that I not do. Most of the time I got enough supplies from the hospital for the next 4 month. When running low, I just send them a mail and receive a moment that I can pick them up in the hospital next day. When I need a prescription for insuline, I send mail to hospital and in a couple of hours it is added to my IdentityCard with wich I can go to the pharmacy to get it. So I can get fast extra stuff in this way. For low suggar I mostly use sport drink like Aquarius. Work fast because of the nitrates and is a drink without gaz so you can drink fast. I like that. When I do my normal shopping I just bring them also from the supermarket. Most of them are at a fixed place at home, and I have several on place that I use when I'm on the road. The number I have there stored I check always before leaving. Next week I switch from the G6 to the G7 that now can work with The tandem pump. Curious to that.

i need to reoranize ie clean up my diabetic shelves I am looking at them and know it time to tidy it up has your diabetes changed I got a new one a few months ago and need to tidy it up too glad you did this video .?

I havent used glucose tabs simce i tried the soft puff munts, 5 carbs each and the bite size gummy bears, good video also.

I have an armoire in my bedroom that holds all my stuff. It takes up the whole top half. I keep infusion sets & cartridges and sensors in their original boxes. I have another box that holds boxes of test strips. It's not as neat & organized as yours but I know where everything is. I noticed you don't have anything like SkinTac and adhesive remover. Everything will fall off me if I don't use SkinTac!

Pretty sure I still have every blood monitor I had... with exception of the more modern ones. I have the OLD one touches, OLD glucometer... interesting to look at sometimes.

5....I have 5 blood sugar machines. I wish I still had my blood sugar machine that I used when I was first diagnosed with juvenile diabetes in 84'. I had to use 2 control solutions for calibration (High&Low).

I have a similar system with a small cabinet dedicated to to my diabetic stuff. One thing to add, which could make for a difficult time, are whatever powers pump. Medtronic uses readily available batteries. But Tandem pump have a rechargeable battery. Having a spare charging cable, which isn't the same as an Apple phone charging cable, is good to have. I don't know if that cable is proprietary and have been too chicken to try charging with another cable. Perhaps someone out there knows? Spare power adapter though I have used other adapters without a problem.

Your video glosses over “emergency low blood sugar glucose stuff.” What do you have in reserve for the serious unexpected low? I have a product prescribed by my physician for a true emergency called Baqsimi. It is inserted into the nose and the push of a button sends a dose of glucagon spray. Since there is no swallowing or injection involved it can be administered to an unconscious person by someone who is not a medical professional. Like you I have never used this product, but it buys peace of mind.

I wish I was allowed backup supplies. I'm not even able to order a new Dexcom sensor until days after I've put on my last one. Same with insulin, it's down to the last vial and I can order more. One thing I might note is to keep the boxes of the Dexcom sensors. I've been denied a return because I didn't keep the box, which had some pertinent info. on it. Question: is your iWatch 40mm or 44mm?

Great organization skills! Is there any reason why you have a bunch of G6 supplies and not G7s? Just curious.

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I change out my lancet after every use!!! (Said no type 1 diabetic ever😂😂😂)

Oh my, recent to tandem pump n G7 blood sug reader. Honest, I feel suddenly very vulnerable as relient on the del comp re dexcom...who won't leave my supplies with neighbours? What if I don't have car to drive to del shop in another town?what if I dont have a mob or a mob that can't access apps?? Seems were all very vulnerable, even if Internet savvy...😢....Big Negative.

Hey are you looping yet? have you looked into that yourself?

Wow you have so many sensors