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Type 1 Novorapid simply not working?

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Snazeh

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I don’t know if anyone can advise on what to do next, this morning when I woke up my BG was 6.2, I had 4 slices of toast which worked out to be about 80g of carbs, my carb to insulin ratio is 1 unit for every 7g carbs, but recently it seems my insulin hasn’t been working well so I changed to 1 unit for every 6g of carbs, so injected 13 units of novorapid, it’s now been 2 and a half hours since my novorapid and my BG is 11.3, what is going on? I’m at a complete loss as to why this is randomly happening, it’s only happened since maybe Wednesday? Just seems like my novorapid simply doesn’t work, any ideas? Type one recently diagnosed btw, thanks in advance
 
If it's suddenly changed it could be a number of things, could be that you need a new pen/cartridge, sometimes the insulin does go a bit funny, it could be that since you're newly diagnosed you may be in your honeymoon stage which as far as I heard can be a bit random at times, maybe you're coming down with a cold/infection/illness that you don't know about yet - that raises blood sugars.
Though one thing I will say is that when I was using Novorapid, expecting it to do anything fast in the morning for me was just a pipe dream, it always took well more than 2-3 hours for my morning Novorapid to bring me down to something sensible.

The simplest thing you can try at the mo is probably just to replace the pen/cartridge and see if that fixes the problem if it does then it was just a dodgy pen/cartridge.
 
Rokaab said:
If it's suddenly changed it could be a number of things, could be that you need a new pen/cartridge, sometimes the insulin does go a bit funny, it could be that since you're newly diagnosed you may be in your honeymoon stage which as far as I heard can be a bit random at times, maybe you're coming down with a cold/infection/illness that you don't know about yet - that raises blood sugars.
Though one thing I will say is that when I was using Novorapid, expecting it to do anything fast in the morning for me was just a pipe dream, it always took well more than 2-3 hours for my morning Novorapid to bring me down to something sensible.

The simplest thing you can try at the mo is probably just to replace the pen/cartridge and see if that fixes the problem if it does then it was just a dodgy pen/cartridge.
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I’ll replace the cartridge now and see if it makes a difference later in the day whenever I eat next, but as I said it’s happening at every meal, but I’ll definitely try what you suggest! But I’m not holding my breath as I have a few disposable pens left over from when they first diagnosed me which I was using when I went away from home for a few days, it wasn’t working effectively then, and now I’m home I’m using my cartridge pens and again, they don’t seem to be effective! But thanks for the advice. The one thing I worry about is if my BG is high for 3/4 hours every meal, that can’t be healthy, as if I’m eating 3 time’s a day that’s gonna be at least 12 hours of the day my BG is out of target; that can’t be good for me...
 
Just did a bit of reading on good ol google, and I’ve got a feeling I’m maybe having absorption issues, have been injecting my novorapid in my stomach ever since diagnosis (mid December) so gonna try a different site and I reckon that’ll be what’s causing it
 
Hi, I've always found that if I start going higher than normal relatively suddenly and it lasts for a few days then it's an immune reaction to some kind of bug. I can usually tell I've caught a virus a couple of days before any symptoms appear because of bg readings, and then it's hard to disentangle any viral symptoms from generally feeling rough because of high bg.
I would advise 1. Swap the insulin out, it might be damaged 2. If no joy after 1-2 hours then up your dosage by say 20% and watch your levels carefully.
 
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