Anyone tried intermittent rapid insulin as lifestyle choice to cover occasional high-carb events?

[Jasperville]

Hi,
I've got down from Hba1c of 10.5 in January to hopefully, based on a home test, about 6.3 currently with low carb and lots of supplements. This was in response to the threat of needing insulin.

I have always been afraid of insulin, very afraid, as I had a theory that high BG causes microvascular complications, but it is the insulin and hypos that actually kill you.

I've now looked into it more, and it would appear that the very rapid acting insulins are out of your system in about 4 hours, so for me, with severely delayed gastric emptying, I think the risk of overshooting and having a hypo would be low.

My worry is that whenever I have low-carbed before, I have got bored, drifted away and starting bingeing on carbs. My dream would be to have a supply of insulin that I perhaps only injected 2 or 3 times a month, to cover Christmas, holidays, occasional meals out or takeaways with friends, only giving myself enough to keep BG at 8-10, not 18-20. ie damage limitation, so I can have infrequent big treats without spiking too high................is this feasible, am I mad, has anyone ever looked into this or tried to persuade their GP to give it a go?

 

[AndBreathe]

I've never taken any medication for my diabetes, so clearly have never considered the approach you are contemplating. To be honest, I would be surprised if your Doc or nurse would support it, but I've been known to be wrong in the past!

As I understand it, insulin takes quite a bit of getting used to, in order to know how much to dose. You could argue that you could use a small dose, because effectively you just want to take the edge off it, for an instance.

My other concern would be, would there become more and more exceptions in your life, so you'd be potentially using more and more insulin. Where's the incentive to "be good"?

What sort of thing to you go off the wagon for, and have you looked at things you could have as alternatives.