# Forgotten bolus - argh!
**URL:** https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/forgotten-bolus-argh/4302
**Category:** Type 1 & LADA
**Created:** [June 26, 2018, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/forgotten-bolus-argh/4302 "2018-06-26T17:36:33Z")
**Posts on this page:** 6
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### Author:  [@Jen](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Jen)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 5:36pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/forgotten-bolus-argh/4302/1 "2018-06-26T17:36:33Z")
I used to forget boluses on a fairly regular basis before I got a CGM. But it’s been quite a long time since I’ve forgotten one, especially since must of the past few years has been eating low-carb.
I’m currently burned out (not being able to eat eggs has done a serious number on my happy low-carb routine) so am not eating low-carb. This morning when I went to bolus for breakfast my pump alarmed that it didn’t have enough insulin. So I changed cartridges and then ate breakfast.
Realized on the way to work that I was feeling high. Nothing will ruin reveling in a 24-hour almost flatline (minus two fairly severe lows) like testing to find you’re 19.1 mmol/L (343 mg/dl). Checked IOB to find nothing except the small one-unit correction I’d given before getting out of bed for waking up at 7.1 mmol/L (127 mg/dl).
About 13 units and two hours later I’m down to 13.3 mmol/L (239 mg/dl).
Ugh. One of many advantages (to me) of low-carb: forgetting a bolus would result in a high of maybe 11 mmol/L (200 mg/dl) that could be brought down in about an hour. None of this battling all morning nonsense.
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 5:55pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/forgotten-bolus-argh/4302/2 "2018-06-26T17:55:43Z")
> [@Jen](#):
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> This morning when I went to bolus for breakfast my pump alarmed that it didn’t have enough insulin. So I changed cartridges and then ate breakfast.
Anything that takes us out of the normal routine, right?
Like I can bolus before meals every single time, but if it is something out of the ordinary - like maybe being very low and thinking I should bolus after the meal instead of before - and just that little change in the normal routine can potentially mess you up, right?
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### Author:  [@T1Allison](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/T1Allison)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 6:10pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/forgotten-bolus-argh/4302/3 "2018-06-26T18:10:51Z")
@Jen, I hate that for you. I that for me, too, when I do it. We all do it.
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### Author:  [@Aaron](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Aaron)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/forgotten-bolus-argh/4302/4 "2018-06-26T19:57:29Z")
> [@Eric](#):
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> Anything that takes us out of the normal routine, right?
You said it.
@Jen I missed on the other morning. I think I had all four of my kids making noise and my wife was talking to me while I was carb counting and punching the carbs and insulin dose into my phone. Then I forgot to punch the insulin dose into the pump…
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### Author:  [@docslotnick](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/docslotnick)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 8:16pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/forgotten-bolus-argh/4302/5 "2018-06-26T20:16:57Z")
I feel for you. Twice last week I walked out of the house without taking my Tresiba or my other meds. Thank the Lord that my wife noticed and texted me to come back and take everything.
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### Author:  [@Eric](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/u/Eric)
#### Post date: [June 26, 2018, 8:24pm UTC](https://forum.fudiabetes.org/t/forgotten-bolus-argh/4302/6 "2018-06-26T20:24:02Z")
> [@Aaron](#):
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> I missed on the other morning. I think I had all four of my kids making noise and my wife was talking to me
But see, that’s normal for me. I might miss it if everything was quiet.
😀