I am Christel from Diabetes Strong and in this video,
we're going to talk about Myabetic diabetes bags and accessories.
I've been living with diabetes since 1997 and I've always just used
those little generic cases that came with my meter,
or alternatively, I just throw all my diabetes gear in the bottom of my purse.
Myabetic is a brand that's focused solely on creating products
for people living with diabetes. It's actually run and created by a woman who lives with diabetes herself.
So they've been focused on bags and accessories for years and actually just
moved into entertainment as well. They established something that's called Mybetic TV. So you can look
that up that's a free streaming service and I just happen to have created a show for them. But that's
not what we're talking about today. Today I want to show you my favorite diabetic bags and accessories.
The first bag I want to show you is a Brandy Diabetes Backpack.
This one, this is probably my favorite. So she is 10" wide she is 9.5" high and she is 6"
deep. She's all made of vegan leather and she also has an insulated pocket inside for
where you can you know store your insulin. It does require like a cooling pack for it to keep
cold, butlet me just show you a few photos of me wearing her, and then we'll look inside.
Let's have a look inside my backpack. So first actually there's a little
room here. I usually drop my cell phone in here. Start with the
big room. What I love about this, is there's room for so much stuff. So sunglasses, I have a whole
huge water bottle, my wallet. So all your basics. So you can see it's large and in
here it's an insulated pouch. So here if you put in a cooling pack this will actually stay cold.
Let's close that. This is where all I have all my diabetes gear.
So as you can see, there are actually, you know little elastic bands that
holds onto my meter, my test strips, this is my inhaler, for my Afrezza
A little band holds on to my insulin pen, down here, an extra pouch. I actually don't use that.
This little pouch, a lot of people use that for
used test strips and stuff like that. I have my inhaled insulin in there.
And then the last pouch here, I have my glucose,
my taps, alcohol swabs, extra needles, lancet, stuff like that. This is very roomy.
Let's go ahead and close it again. That is my backpack.
My next bag is the Joslin Diabetes Belt Bag
and this one is 6.75 inches wide, it is 4.25" high and it's 1.75" deep
and this one you wear on your hip or your waist either using the belt you can take the belt off
you can see you can open here, and put it on your, well if you're wearing an actual belt
so this one is Cognac, it is vegan leather which I like. It actually fits a whole cell phone in
here. And I'll show you the details inside in a minute. So fits a lot of things including
a cell phone. There's actually also little holes so if you do wear an insulin pump, your tubing can
go out through these. So this is this one, it's me wearing her, and let's take a look inside
So let's have a look. This, the belt, can be taken on and off, and the belt comes in different lengths.
So if you rather have it on your regular belt, you do that. Put it on like that. Let's look in...
So as you can see here, there's an insulated pocket here that
I have my insulin pen in here, and napkins. But if you have an insulin pump, there's a little hole here for tubing.
A little room, for secret stuff. I have my wallet in here, I have a fruit strip, chapstick because that's
just needed. These are glucose taps, I have a meter, test strips, and this actually also fits a phone.
That's what that looks like.
And then I have my Banting Diabetes Wallet in
shocking pink, which is because I like that color. So this one is 7 inches wide, it's 4.25"
high and it's 1.75" deep. So it's not huge, you can kind of see the size compared to my hand. This
is also vegan leather, like all the other products, and it actually fits up to two insulin pens.
So because I'm MDI I chose a wallet that goes with insulin pens. It also has room for my meter
as well as, you know all the extra stuff you need: extra needles stuff like that. It also have an outer
room here. I have fruit strips in here, but I mean, you can have your credit card in there and
just go out just holding this. It kind of looks like a cute little clutch. So let's look inside
Let's have a look at this one. So you see it is a little worn, it has been loved. It has a pocket out here. I don't
really use that and there's a pocket here, I have my fruit leather in here. Let's open it and have a look.
So this one holds a lot of stuff. My insulin, my lancet, and my strips, and then actually in here
I have two things. I have my meter and I have my Afrezza, which's inhalable insulin. That's the inhaler.
And then in this little pocket, I have, so these are glucose taps,
extra needles, extra lancets, alcohol swabs.
And then you use this little pouch for your used test strips and stuff.
I use it for my Afrezza. So this is inhalable insulin. But you can actually take this one on and off.
And that, that's what that looks like.
Those were my three Myabetic bags. As I mentioned
Myabetic also makes accessories. I'm wearing one here, this is a golden medical alert bracelet.
it says diabetes on the other side it's a little hard to see I'll show you a close-up
This specific design is not available right now on the Myabetic website
but they have other designs, so if you're in the market for a medical alert bracelet,
you can go check that out. I will leave a link to that as well down in the video description.
If you like any of those products, that you show you, want to get them, or you want to get any other diabetic
product, you can use my code DIABETESSTRONG for 15% off. You simply just at check out, type
in DIABETESSTRONG and they will automatically subtract 15% from your order.
Thank you so much for watching
and please let me know if you have any favorite diabetes accessories, bags, or wallets