Travel w meds: dosing

Karin

Hi,

I am a frequent traveler and I often even travel across time zones. When I dosed insulin this was very complicated since my long acting insulin really needed 24 hrs between doses and the meal time insulin was used right before eating. It took me a day or so to adjust and it often posed issues. W my transplant meds I try to adjust my schedule as well so I keep my tac levels stable. This means I should dose every 12 hrs and I often do a two day transition moving the dosing a few hrs each day to allow for this cadence yet letting me sleep!

how do you do it?

AliEm14

I always keep a watch in my original time zone and go based on that. I did it when I had meds every 2 hours pre transplant and I do it now with transplant meds.

I find it a lot easier to stay on one time zone versus doing all the calculations and switching over. I’ve also mastered the art of doing the middle of the night wake up take meds and go back to sleep because I had to do it for so long pre transplant that I’d rather do that than the math to adjust 😅