If you take 10 units for a sandwich and your blood sugar is only 14.6 an hour later don't take more insulin. That's asking for a hypo. See what your sugar is like 4 hours later. To me it almost sounds like 10 units was too much, and then you took more. I call that "stacking" which is many times an invitation to get low.
i agree with thebignewt do you carb count as 10 units for a sandwich seems an awful lot my bgs spike after 2 hours of eating but are normally back in range by my next meal and as for people getting annoyed at you for leaving the shop floor to take medication is a disgrace hope you get it sorted
As my sig says "you're either on your way up or on your way down". And I think you were on your way down after the sandwich at 14, and you were only an hour into 10 units. You don't take more insulin an hour after a dose (unless you're eating some more food). I'd quit worrying about postprandial blood sugars (I don't hardly ever check mine, just before meals/bedtime/ awakening).
With novorapid I had to pre-bolus up to 45 minutes, as the food started working faster than the insulin. Pre-bolusing worked pretty good for me, but please be careful if you want to try it: use your meter a lot and keep quick acting glucose handy. And don't experiment when you're about to drive. I'm on Fiasp now, which I like a lot better as I can eat directly after injecting without spiking much after an hour and then waiting to see if it comes down by itself.I took 10 units of insulin. In the car about an hour later, my sugar was 14.6.
I was just about to suggest trialling a libre - I believer there is a smartphone app that can replace the scanner so that the cost would only be for the sensor???you say you arent testing that much... you may be able to get a Libre
Yesterday at work for example, I had a sandwich before I left for work, and I took 10 units of insulin. In the car about an hour later, my sugar was 14.6. I took 2 units to try and get it down a little, I had a yum-yum at work as they were offering them, didn't take any insulin as I was doing physical work. 45 mins later I start going hypo, drop to about 5 and I can feel it coming. I eat 2 more yum yums and half a sandwich and only go up to 6.9.
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