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How Often A Day Do You Inject?

hya and welcome,
i can only tell you what i use,i have lantus..a long acting on a morning at approx the same time every day, i then inject novorapid...a fast acting at every meal where im eating any carbs, i would go see your diabetic clinic and explain to them what youve told the forum, i am sure once you know your hba1c and have started checking your blood again things will get easier
the diabetic nurse will help you and then once under better control you can decide whether you would like to change insulin or not, as for the testing you mentioned in your other post ,i myself check my morning fasting to see if my basal the lantus is doing its job then i check before every meal so i know how much fast acting..my bolus, i need to inject,i do this by carb counting,when trying something new in my diet or when i first started on basal bolus i also checked at 2 hr after a meal so i could see if i was injecting the right amount
i hope this helped but i really would advise u to seek medical help and advice to get u on the right track
let us know how u get on :D
 
I was on that and it wasn't enough so they changed me to 4 jabs, one with each meal (Novrapid) and on 24hour background (glargine).
I found I instantly had more control over things and never looked back. But it is all individual and different for different people. If your current meds are not working maybe try something else, but oy must discuss it with your diabetic nurse and dietician first.

all the best
 
4 jabs a day usually.
A fast acting one before each meal and a long acting one at night.
Personally i find the injections the easiest part of my diabetes a bit like brushing ya teeth ....... only before a meal not after lol
 
Levemir morning and night.
Novorapid Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner. And any other time I'm eating a lot, like when ordering pakora at a mate's house.

I was on Actrapid way back, and I have to say it's a world apart from NovoRapid.
 
My son is a type one. He injects basal insulin morning and night and combinations of novorapid / hypurin pork insulin before eating anything that is not to cover a hypo or exercise. We stick to the 7 unit rule to make the insulin action time entirely predictable so in any one day he can have say 10-13 injections separate injections but spaced out morning, lunch, dinner, bedtime.

Having more injections can give you better blood sugar control and meal flexibility.
 
Katharine said:
We stick to the 7 unit rule to make the insulin action time entirely predictable so in any one day he can have say 10-13 injections separate injections but spaced out morning, lunch, dinner, bedtime.

Having more injections can give you better blood sugar control and meal flexibility.
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Hello Katherine

Most evenings my meals contain about 25-30 grams of carb approx so I usually bolus about 7.5 or 8 units of Apidra depending on what my bg is which then gives me a bg somewhere between 5 and 7 3 hours later. Sometimes though I eat more carb like fish fingers, frozen peas, oven chips or fried onions, sausages, mash etc so then I bolus anything up to about 12 units. When eating a chinese consisting of prawn balls, rice, chop suey, sweet and sour sauce, I use about 14 or 15 units. I have never found any problem at all using insulin in excess of 7 units.

As a woman, my body was never designed to be a human pin cushion so for me injecting 5 times a day is the limit. If I have to go above that on a daily basis, then I will be on to my friends to give me some of their infusion sets or I will push for a pump.
 
How many times a day some injects is sorted of dependant on there regime...

When I was on injections, I used 2x levimer injects a day, Humalog with meals and to correct when necessary... For some found I would have to split the dose into two so that I wouldn't creat a hypo before going high ahhh, so I think I advaged out about 7 injections a day...

As you can imagine trying to fit all this into a busy day, of work, family commitments were just a nightmare indeed...

So I gave up and now using the insulin pump, which means that I change my cannular every two days (sometimes I can leave for 3 days) I finding that because it's gives me a much better delivery system and finer doasage that is possible with pen or syringe, that this has so much improved my quaility of life in all sorts of ways....
 
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