To give the Fiasp more of a challenge, I rolled out the Chicken Katsu Curry challenge.
OpenAPS and Fiasp would need to keep me on the straight and narrow with a 160g bucket load of carbs (if you're going to have them, you might as well enjoy them) combined with fats to make the absorption profile a little painful.
In the interests of safety I Pre-bolused five minutes before eating as I knew it would take the five minutes to deliver the 12u I was giving up front. The rest was over to the system. And it delivered.
Boy did it deliver. Peak at 8. Back to 6.8 3.5 hours after eating. Smooth and low. Very impressive stuff!
What do you mean @Sideburnt ? It's there, available and prescribable by anyone. The only limitation to getting Fiasp is the Medicines Management Group in your CCG. They need to sign it off for it to be paid for directly by specific name.
So how good is this stuff? Well... After my Krispy Kreme, my glucose level never exceeded 9.3 mmol/l and I was back at 7.3 mmol/l three hours later. With a 10 minute pre-bolus. Wow!
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So to crank things up, I had a second Krispy Kreme waiting (with similar CHO properties). This one was given a n 18 minute lead time and so far my BG has remained flat. I ate it an hour ago!
The underlying insulin is the same as Novorapid @Eldorado, so it made sense to use the same numbers. I did some testing to confirm this though, which turned up okay.Can I ask, did you bang in the same number of units as you would have done for your 'old' insulin?' I'm just wondering if the strength varies between makes? I hope that's not a daft question.
48 hours in am finding quite a lot of tweaking to be done, particularly dawn phenomenon where I'm about to increase the basal a little. Am also having to use extended bolus for most meals to avoid a dip post eating followed by a rise. Successfully ate huge bit of salted choc cake with extended bolus at 5pm yesterday and numbers all good. Ate cheese/ ham roll and large orange today for lunch without extended bolus and BS was 12.3 three hours after. It's early days and as with all new insulins, pumps etc; there will be settling in period.
my pumped humalog works very quickly when in normal range. I rarely pre bolus, only it I am a bit high then oly for 10mins. I found pumping humalog works faster than on mdi. I have been on novo rapid long time ago (mdi) and was changed to humalog and found it to be faster