Newbie here

[ali705]

Hi all
I'm Ali, almost 60, diagnosed T2 in 1995, recently been plugged into a Libre 2 Plus and started on Humalog a few days ago and struggling with it! My Libre daily charts look like a map of the Himalayas, including some pretty spectacular sudden hypos and hypers! After 30 years of T2 and being pretty stable until the last year where my numbers have increased steadily, the sudden peaks and troughs are worrisome. Any help/suggestions welcomed.
Cheers

 

[Antje77]

Hi all
I'm Ali, almost 60, diagnosed T2 in 1995, recently been plugged into a Libre 2 Plus and started on Humalog a few days ago and struggling with it! My Libre daily charts look like a map of the Himalayas, including some pretty spectacular sudden hypos and hypers! After 30 years of T2 and being pretty stable until the last year where my numbers have increased steadily, the sudden peaks and troughs are worrisome. Any help/suggestions welcomed.
Cheers

Hi @ali705 , welcome to the forum.

Are you logging your meals and your insulin doses to see if you can find patterns between the two?

Humalog is a fast acting insulin, are you on a long insulin as well?

How are you dosing your Humalog? Do you take it before every meal? Are you on fixed doses or does the dose depend on the type of meal or your blood glucose before eating?

Sorry for all the questions, they may help in working out what is going on though.

If you've only started the humalog a few days ago, do you have regular contact with your doctor or diabetes nurse to talk your doses through? Finding the right dose is trial and error, so in the beginning doses usually need to be adjusted very often.