Mince pie high

[Andy41]

I had a mini mince pie, well 2 in fact, this evening with no insulin. At 10 I checked by BG and it was 18.5 so I took 7 units of novorapid. 2 hours later it's still 15.5. I haven't eaten anything for at least 3 hours. Anybody have any reasons why this is. My Bgs have been below 10 for last few days.

 

[TorqPenderloin]

Insulin doesn't start to work automatically. Even in perfect situations it will take 15-20 minutes. It can take much longer if your blood sugar is very high and even longer if your blood sugar is very high and increasing (like yours probably was).

In short, it's a heck of a lot easier to keep your levels regulated if you take insulin before you eat.

Is there any reason you didn't take insulin when you ate?

 

[SWUSA_]

I have found that when I have to take extra insulin (long acting) it seems to actually stay around for a few days for me. Maybe I'm wrong but long acting is very long for me sometimes-and @Andy41 you ate a lot of carbs at one time my friend. (Not to shame you-I just confessed to my own Christmas cookie disaster in another thread.)

 

[Andy41]

Mince pies have got between 40-50g of carbs in. That'll be why.

These are mini ones with 12.3 g of carbs.

 

[Andy41]

Insulin doesn't start to work automatically. Even in perfect situations it will take 15-20 minutes. It can take much longer if your blood sugar is very high and even longer if your blood sugar is very high and increasing (like yours probably was).

In short, it's a heck of a lot easier to keep your levels regulated if you take insulin before you eat.

Is there any reason you didn't take insulin when you ate?

I just didn't think when I was offered them.

 

[Andy41]

Thank you for your replies. I took another 4 units and woke up this morning on 4.1 which suggests insulin kicked in after I went to bed. Lesson learned.