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<blockquote data-quote="iHs" data-source="post: 453041" data-attributes="member: 8799"><p><strong>Re: Big mistake!</strong></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Hi Geri</p><p></p><p>What has happened to you over the wrong insulin being prescribed is common, Lilly should re name Humalog Mix 25 or 50 to being another name then there would be no mistake made by doctors. Its very easy to mistake the word Lispro to mean the bolus version instead of the mixed.</p><p></p><p>You should find using the mixed insulin much better than just using the bolus to control the bg levels with the food that you eat. If you tend to eat the same breakfast every morning, the same lunch (a sandwich for example) the amount of carb eaten in the evening can be dealt with an increase in the eve dose of mixed insulin so if for example the usual eve dose of mixed insulin will allow you to eat 40g carb and you want to eat 50 or 60g, you can increase the eve dose up a tiny bit or if you want to leave the eve dose alone, you can simply give 1 or 2u of the bolus to add a bit more punch to the mixed. The only thing I would stress on is that when going to bed unless bg levels are up on 10mmol, then eat a carb snack to prevent bg levels falling in the early hours of the morning, but testing bg levels in the night will help guide you on what to do for the best. My bg levels rapidly dropped but yours might not............</p><p></p><p>Don't move to bolus/basal unless you get some guidance on how to adjust the bolus insulin using a ratio and you will also need to prepare yourself for a lot of bg tests.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iHs, post: 453041, member: 8799"] [b]Re: Big mistake![/b] Hi Geri What has happened to you over the wrong insulin being prescribed is common, Lilly should re name Humalog Mix 25 or 50 to being another name then there would be no mistake made by doctors. Its very easy to mistake the word Lispro to mean the bolus version instead of the mixed. You should find using the mixed insulin much better than just using the bolus to control the bg levels with the food that you eat. If you tend to eat the same breakfast every morning, the same lunch (a sandwich for example) the amount of carb eaten in the evening can be dealt with an increase in the eve dose of mixed insulin so if for example the usual eve dose of mixed insulin will allow you to eat 40g carb and you want to eat 50 or 60g, you can increase the eve dose up a tiny bit or if you want to leave the eve dose alone, you can simply give 1 or 2u of the bolus to add a bit more punch to the mixed. The only thing I would stress on is that when going to bed unless bg levels are up on 10mmol, then eat a carb snack to prevent bg levels falling in the early hours of the morning, but testing bg levels in the night will help guide you on what to do for the best. My bg levels rapidly dropped but yours might not............ Don't move to bolus/basal unless you get some guidance on how to adjust the bolus insulin using a ratio and you will also need to prepare yourself for a lot of bg tests. [/QUOTE]
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