Pumps and insulin active time - advice needed

[Riri]

Sorry if this has already been covered. My DSN left my active insulin time at 6 hrs when I went on the pump 2 and a half weeks ago. She is currently off for personal reasons but I speak to the consultant every 3 days and she expressed surprised that it was at 6 hrs! She changed it to 5 hrs (I was a bit nervous about changing it to 4 hrs strait away), is anyone else on 5 hrs or are all your pumps set to 4 hrs???

 

[Dragonflye]

mine is set at 2hours and then Im considering dropping it to 1hour30minutes if im "high" at 1hour30 after eating I do a correction and disregard the active insulin because I have found little (if any) change in my sugars in the following 30mins if i dont correct

 

[MushyPeaBrain]

Mine is set to 4 hours and as that seems to work well I've seen no reason to change. I'm on Novorapid if that helps

 

[Cheryl]

My pump is old, so doesn't have an active time thingy. But, experience shows me that for me, Humalog is active for about 5 hours, perhaps a bit more. It's also quite slow to get going in me, so I have to bolus 30 mins before a meal if I can. My BG peaks around 2 1/2 to 3 hours after my meal, so if my pump was set to a 2 hour active time as above, I'd be all over the place. We're all different, you'll come to know how it works best for you in time.

 

[Riri]

Thanks all. As you say in the last post we're all different so it's never a case of one size fits all. I've got this feeling that 5hrs is too long so I will adjust to 4rs to see how that goes - I'm on novo rapid by the way. roblem:

 

[docvern]

im on novorapid and mines set at 3 hours which i sometimes think is too long ,,,,,,its a case of trial and error,,,,,,,,,,you wont die,,,,,,,,,,,

 

[candi-girl]

mine is set for 3 hours. however, when i used to inject, larger doses, it would last 4 hours...