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- 165
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Just wondering if anyone else has experienced this - sometimes, when I inject insulin, the whole dose seems to act immediately. This has happened 4 times in the last year, 3 of which have been in the last 3 months.
The first time it happened was with a 3 unit dose of Levemir (injected into the leg); the last three times were with 3/4 unit doses of Novorapid (injected abdominally). I use the Dexcom G5, so on these 4 occasions, I have seen my sugars plummet quite scarily as if dropping off a cliff edge, and the fall-rate alarm has sounded - about 10 points over a 10-15 minute period. There's no error with the Dexcom, as I've confirmed the situation with multiple finger-pricks.
It's as if the insulin is being injected intravenously - but that seems so unlikely according to my consultant. Could it just be that I'm not rotating sites enough? - I know that can cause absorption issues, but this seems ridiculous. It's extremely frustrating, as ever since I had a really bad hypo in June 2016, this is exactly what I've been worried about, but constantly reassured would never happen. Have spoken to my consultant, but it just seems to be one of those unexplained diabetes-related things.
By complete chance, on each occasion, my sugars have been too high to start with, so luckily there's been time to react by taking lots of glucose gel; but it's quite worrying, as if my sugars were around 5.0 to 7.0 to begin with like they should be, such a drop would be horrific, and any glucose I took surely wouldn't be able to act quickly enough. Any thoughts would be most welcome! x
The first time it happened was with a 3 unit dose of Levemir (injected into the leg); the last three times were with 3/4 unit doses of Novorapid (injected abdominally). I use the Dexcom G5, so on these 4 occasions, I have seen my sugars plummet quite scarily as if dropping off a cliff edge, and the fall-rate alarm has sounded - about 10 points over a 10-15 minute period. There's no error with the Dexcom, as I've confirmed the situation with multiple finger-pricks.
It's as if the insulin is being injected intravenously - but that seems so unlikely according to my consultant. Could it just be that I'm not rotating sites enough? - I know that can cause absorption issues, but this seems ridiculous. It's extremely frustrating, as ever since I had a really bad hypo in June 2016, this is exactly what I've been worried about, but constantly reassured would never happen. Have spoken to my consultant, but it just seems to be one of those unexplained diabetes-related things.
By complete chance, on each occasion, my sugars have been too high to start with, so luckily there's been time to react by taking lots of glucose gel; but it's quite worrying, as if my sugars were around 5.0 to 7.0 to begin with like they should be, such a drop would be horrific, and any glucose I took surely wouldn't be able to act quickly enough. Any thoughts would be most welcome! x