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Lacey_The_Sailor

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Please share times when you may run high and insulin may not work as well as normal. My bloods have been really well controlled but the last few days I am running high and am having to inject twice as much to get back to normal...
 
Lacey_The_Sailor said:
Please share times when you may run high and insulin may not work as well as normal. My bloods have been really well controlled but the last few days I am running high and am having to inject twice as much to get back to normal...
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If you are running high this will make you temporarily insulin resistant and correction doses will take longer to work and you may need a higher dose. That's fairly standard. But it's always worth checking it's not a problem with the insulin and starting a new pen.
 
Lacey_The_Sailor said:
Please share times when you may run high and insulin may not work as well as normal. My bloods have been really well controlled but the last few days I am running high and am having to inject twice as much to get back to normal...
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Just change your pens to see if it resolves the problem, but if your unwell then this can explain your high insulin usage.
 
Lacey_The_Sailor said:
Please share times when you may run high and insulin may not work as well as normal. My bloods have been really well controlled but the last few days I am running high and am having to inject twice as much to get back to normal...
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I find this happens occasionally, my sugars will run high usually for about 48 hrs. Can never really pin point a reason.
Ratios and correction dose's just go out the window.
Personally I check more often and up my insulin uptake without trying to go to far and find myself yo-yoing between highs and lows.
It's annoying but I wouldn't get stressed for the first 2 days just manage the situation as best I can.
Obviously after 2days I would be looking for other causes, basal testing, adjusting ratios, any illness ( do I actually feel OK or am I feeling a bit off? ), have i changed my diet? And the list goes on.
 
Yes I sometimes go off. I can be very very good levels for about 3 weeks and then it goes up or down. This needs adjustment to basal usually, but because I am on very long acting it takes 3 day's to see the result of a dose change. Then often have to do it again, sometimes again. I have been not good for the last 10 day's but getting on top of it now.
Keep at it don't give up a lot of us are like this.
 
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