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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Recently I found myself spiking quite often, even after probolusing A LOT. The food I eat causes me to spike a lot and very quickly. I eat on breakfast, for example one crumpet 16g carbs, 250g yoghurt 12g carbs, and one medium apple 20g carbs, so in total it is 50g carbs so it is 5units of my Humalog insulin. But I add extra 1unit cuz I know I will spike. And I injected 2h ago and the insulin is still not working. My carbs are being digested very quickly and cause spikes, I sometimes pre bolus even 1h, just to see, that sometimes, the insulin I inject, it is not delayed, it simply doesn't work at all, or, will work after like 5h in the middle of the night. I know this is to be not advised, but I gave up, and I simply inject into the muscle. I cannot wait 2h and gamble if insulin will work or not, or plan 6h ahead. I eat now and I need my insulin to work now, or even 30min is still acceptable to me.
I found different spots on my belly react at different speed. I will attach a picture. Please let me know if you experience same thing and what parts of belly do you inject too. I feel a bit lost. Sometimes insulin seems like doesn't work, but actually it works, but is delayed 5h-6h.
In general, the further from the belly button, the slower the insulin works, and, sometimes, doesn't work at all.