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Posted 6/28/2011 7:32 PM (GMT 0)
I'm starting college this fall and I'm going to have 3 roommates. My college doesn't want people to bring a mini fridge because there's a full sized fridge that is to be shared. So I had to ask for special permission. But some people are saying I'm being too picky. But I just don't feel comfortable putting such costly and important injections where they can be mistakenly dropped or drunk people taking them out of the fridge. I don't know, do you think it's too demanding to want my own mini fridge?
Posted 6/28/2011 7:33 PM (GMT 0)
Nope. Tell those people to mind their own business.
Posted 6/28/2011 8:23 PM (GMT 0)
I don't think that is an unreasonable request. Even though there is a full size fridge why do they care if you have a mini fridge in your room?

Your roommates and other students don't need to know, but have you told the college that it is for medication. Expensive medication at that and are they prepared to reimburse you if something happens to it?

Just an idea, but I know they make little tiny fridges for desks at an office. I think they only hold a few cans of pop. That would be big enough for your Humira and maybe because it is more the size of a cooler and not fridge you could sneak it in when you move!
Posted 6/28/2011 8:28 PM (GMT 0)
Well maybe not. I just googled it to see if I could find you a picture and the ones I found all got terrible reviews!
Posted 6/28/2011 8:33 PM (GMT 0)
Hi yes you should be able to have a small refridge. at school for your
Humira.
Posted 6/29/2011 12:26 AM (GMT 0)
Why would you be too picky? That's bull! Don't listen to them. They have no idea what they're talking about.
Posted 6/29/2011 1:26 AM (GMT 0)
I'd do the same thing if I were in your position. Plus, it would make it less likely people would steel my beer :D
Posted 6/29/2011 4:42 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Lovely985,

No, you are not being picky at all!! With this disease, we need as much help as we can and a mini fridge surely helps. Plus it makes more room in the big fridge for food and hides the injections from the roommates who most likely do not want to see them. Colleges are extremely picky as to what you can bring and what you can do even if it is for medical reasons. I'm in college too. This fall I will have my own mini fridge and my own bedroom though i'll share a dorm with 2 other girls. This did not come easily though. I had to fight them on every little reason. Eventually I got my two GI doctors, my Endocrine doctor, AND my regular doctor to all fill out (on their stationary and sign) notes to my University's housing. I learned the hard way not to deal with another girl in my same room - she was needle phobic and a hypochondriac. I'm sure whoever you room with won't be that bad though. Good luck :)
Posted 6/29/2011 10:12 AM (GMT 0)
I have Humira in university and bought a mini fridge - once I told my housemates that each injection was worth about £350 they understood why I wouldn't leave it in the communal fridge - just ask them if they'd like to foot the bill for replacements if they accidentally left the fridge door open (which I find happens a lot in shared accommodation!) or it got knocked out and broken!
(total wind up about footing the bill but it worked, but I remember when I first got put on it the nurse told me how much they cost and to do my best never to misfire or damage them because it makes the company livid so thats a phonecall I never want to make!)
Posted 6/29/2011 1:25 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks for your responses! Nice to know I'm not being to picky to have my own fridge and if they tell me something about it and I'll bring up the cost of the injections. I hope not to get a needle phobic but I use the pens so hopefully that won't be a problem. I don't know if I should bring it up or just not say anything.  I just hope they aren't weird about it or think it's contagious or anything.
Posted 6/29/2011 7:18 PM (GMT 0)
Definitely take your own fridge. You do not want to use a communal fridge for the entire dorm for Humira. Cost is an issue. You'd also think that colleges would not want personal prescription medication in a common area.
Posted 6/29/2011 7:52 PM (GMT 0)
I have Humira at school and I keep it in our health center. They let me leave it in the fridge there and I come in every two weeks and do it with no wait or anything. That might be an option.
Posted 6/30/2011 5:17 AM (GMT 0)
You are definitely not being too picky. I would feel out your roommates first and see if they are more chill or up tight about these kinds of things.

Another thing you need to look into though, is how to dispose of them. It's different everywhere....possibly different on a college campus. Concerning this your roommates might need to be informed...that its not a garbage container but a sharps container.
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