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I hate to say it, I really hate to say it, but sometimes when I'm low, I brush it off and try to ignore it. Sometimes I almost feel proud. Maybe proud is the wrong word, but I feel like 'finally!' I wait until I feel really bad to treat it. Usually my liver kicks in before I do.
Do you think you're putting a lot of pressure on yourself? Maybe that's why you're crying when you have to correct the dose?
I hate to say it, I really hate to say it, but sometimes when I'm low, I brush it off and try to ignore it. Sometimes I almost feel proud. Maybe proud is the wrong word, but I feel like 'finally!' I wait until I feel really bad to treat it. Usually my liver kicks in before I do.
I'm only taking NovoRapid with meals. My before meal and fasting levels are ok, but very slowly getting worse. How much basal are you taking?
I used to go low and then high. Then I upped the fat and it seemed to help. Then I lowered the fat and my insulin and that helped as well. Adding avocado to every meal keeps me most flat. I'm getting a tad sick of it but will forge ahead because it Bridges the gap so to speak. Its like it slows the insulin as well as the spike. If I don't eat avocado I will go low first. I have messed with bolus timing and it has helped. I take it it 5 min before eating but I only eat 5 carbs if that at meals. After testing and testing I am most often very steady or I will go up just a small tad. Still under 100. I felt weirdest when I would dip down first and that's where avocado came in. It stopped the lows AND the spikes. It seems just moving bs, even just slightly make me feel weird. Gotta accept it I guess. Nobody can be flat all day everyday. It is better with less insulin but my meals are so regimented. Good thing I like them. And they agree with my stomach. Just as important.Could it be the timing of your bolus @Kristin251 ? If you were taking a while to absorb your meal, then theoretically the insulin coukd lower your blood sugar before it needs to, if that makes sense? If it was me, I'd do a testing marathon one meal - test before bolus, then test every few minutes including during the meal, to see if there was any drop. That's because I don't like things to beat me, but I understand you may not want to be bothered with all that testing.
My symptoms with the Humalog came on gradually. I felt unnaturally tired, had aching joints, weak and aching muscles (particularly in my arms in a really strange way) and thought I'd developed IBS. Within a few days of changing to the porcine insulin, I felt amazingly better I couldn't believe it - but the difference was huge.
I think that animal insulins are only available in the UK now. I know some people in places like the US do manage somehow to buy them though. I don't know how. But - in the absence of porcine - you could always try a regular human insulin like Actrapid, etc. By 'regular' I mean not one of the analogues that seem to be everywhere. You would have to check what was available, but I know there are some in the US because I think Dr B mentions them. They would still be human insulin, but wouldn't be analogues.
Yes it is lily. I didn't realize it wasn't an analog as that's what the nurse told me she said it was interchangeable with novolog. I'll look into it. Unless what you're talking about is something different. Or are humalog and humulin different?@Kristin251 I think Eli Lilly make Humulin, and that's not an analogue. I've never used it, but worth looking into if you're interested. It has both a fast acting and a slow acting form, so can be used for a basal/bolus regime.
@Kristin251 Humalog and Humulin are different. Humalog is an analogue, Humulin is not.
Edited to add that sometimes if you just listened to the doctors, you'd think there were only two or three options for insulin. Here at least, they tend to just mention the analogues, but other insulins are still available.
@azure and @catapillar thank you both for the concern. I agree 100% and know it's something I need to work on. I am on bolus only, and have been told not to correct a high, only to take it with meals, so this is where a lot of frustration comes from - I don't fully feel in control of my diabetes. I also seem to need a large bolus amount because I'm not on basal. I'm at a carb ratio of 1:3 now, and I don't like bolusing that much all at once. I would much rather have a background insulin working, so I could bolus less.