#1970 Once You Step on the Plane

And the first one is really basic, you know, that's take enough supplies, which should be obvious to everybody who's traveling with Type 1, but also know that insulin is much more resilient than what pharmacies want us to believe.

Mm-hmm.

You know, when we pick up the insulin, it's always super chilled, and they ask you, "Do you know how, do you know how to get home with that?" You know, "Can you cool it on the way?" And that gives you the impression that it's super fragile, and one ray of sunshine will destroy the insulin, and that's just not the case.

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I mean, insulin is being used across the world, you know, many places much hotter than ours, and insulin has fairly good shelf life.

So as long as you can keep it cool, on room temperature level, you will be fine.

Mm.

And I, I've been in the situation, you know, where it got warm, and I got really nervous, is it still viable? And I read other people's messages saying, you know, "It, it stayed out in the open for five days, um, on the table.

Do I need to throw it away?" And the answer to that is no.

You know, you can really keep, keep using it, and that can help you when you're traveling.

There are some studies, uh, just about that, that I have to admit I, I'd like to maybe dig into more to tell people about because- You're not wrong.

A lot of times people freak out, and then the minute they have an experience where their blood sugar doesn't do the thing that they want to do, they just, they'll, they'll, they'll leap over 20 possibilities and go right to, "My insulin must be bad."

Yep.

And that's, what a, what a, what a weird leap y- you know.

Uh, but not if you were told, because, like, what happens right away? You have to keep this cool.

Well, I just put it in my insulin pump, and my insulin pump's outside with me, and it's not cool outside.

How, a- and-

Still working

... it's still working.

Something's, you know-

How about that?

Yeah.

Hello.

Yeah.

[laughs] And then, and then like you said, they leave it on a table for a day, and they go, "This must be bad."