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Hi, I hope im posting this in the correct place, may I ask anyone who has started taking humalin I, what their experience was please?
I ask because I took my first dose last night at 10pm, l have been struggling with my bgs for the past few years after an initial very successful control, going from 126 to 35 and apparently curing myself. The more recent past I have really struggled to get my numbers down whilst trying hard, I never really fell from the wagon in the sense I have kept my carbs lower than a “normal” person, avoid the normal culprits but not technically low carbing or not 25/30g I was originally on. I eat very well, my wife cooks our food from scratch, we dont have take aways, I never drink alcohol etc etc, a pretty healthy lifestyle all in all. This has been frustrating as my numbers have progressively got worse, I have been taking 4xMet Alogliptin, Jardinace and still havent been able to get my numbers down, if I dont eat from breakfast to evening meal, after a 12 hour fast I will still be bg13-18. I havent had alot of fun with it all.
Sorry for droning on, I wanted to give you background to my question so here goes
I took 10 units at 10pm, although my bgs were pretty good last night, nothing spectacular, at 1:30am It had gone down to 8.5, I have no idea if this was good or bad as I dont usually or ever test during the night but today! Oh my, it was up to 9.5but had gone back down to 8.5 by the time I ate, 13.3 after so that was under wealmingly what I would expect but before lunch 15 hours after the insulin 6.4 I was having a false hypo and feeling a little bit wishy washy, 2 hours after eating an M&S chicken wrap 7.5 Thats a massive big deal for me but how can the insulin be doing this 17 hours after a small (I think) dose? Would this be your experience? Can it make this much difference? Is this a one off or what I can expect? Will this amazing effect wear off as I become accustomed?
I have been reluctant to take the insulin as I was worried about being insulin resistant but havent done a test for this, but I have been diagnosed with background retinopathy and my DSN said “we have no where else to go”, I am hoping this means I wont need to keep upping the insulin, throwing good after bad if that makes sense. Fingers tighly crossed this is normal and I am in for some great hba1c numbers once again
So sorry for the long post, thankyou if you managed to get through it.
I ask because I took my first dose last night at 10pm, l have been struggling with my bgs for the past few years after an initial very successful control, going from 126 to 35 and apparently curing myself. The more recent past I have really struggled to get my numbers down whilst trying hard, I never really fell from the wagon in the sense I have kept my carbs lower than a “normal” person, avoid the normal culprits but not technically low carbing or not 25/30g I was originally on. I eat very well, my wife cooks our food from scratch, we dont have take aways, I never drink alcohol etc etc, a pretty healthy lifestyle all in all. This has been frustrating as my numbers have progressively got worse, I have been taking 4xMet Alogliptin, Jardinace and still havent been able to get my numbers down, if I dont eat from breakfast to evening meal, after a 12 hour fast I will still be bg13-18. I havent had alot of fun with it all.
Sorry for droning on, I wanted to give you background to my question so here goes
I took 10 units at 10pm, although my bgs were pretty good last night, nothing spectacular, at 1:30am It had gone down to 8.5, I have no idea if this was good or bad as I dont usually or ever test during the night but today! Oh my, it was up to 9.5but had gone back down to 8.5 by the time I ate, 13.3 after so that was under wealmingly what I would expect but before lunch 15 hours after the insulin 6.4 I was having a false hypo and feeling a little bit wishy washy, 2 hours after eating an M&S chicken wrap 7.5 Thats a massive big deal for me but how can the insulin be doing this 17 hours after a small (I think) dose? Would this be your experience? Can it make this much difference? Is this a one off or what I can expect? Will this amazing effect wear off as I become accustomed?
I have been reluctant to take the insulin as I was worried about being insulin resistant but havent done a test for this, but I have been diagnosed with background retinopathy and my DSN said “we have no where else to go”, I am hoping this means I wont need to keep upping the insulin, throwing good after bad if that makes sense. Fingers tighly crossed this is normal and I am in for some great hba1c numbers once again
So sorry for the long post, thankyou if you managed to get through it.