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Relatively new to insulin HELP!!

jimmy1221

jimmy1221

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Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Insulin
I have been taking novamix30 for the last couple of months upping the dosage all the time because my levels are higher than they should be. I've noticed a gain in weight. Is this normal??
 
Hi. I wonder is you are eating too many carbs? Insulin will always encourage weight gain as it enables the body to metabolise the carbs into energy for immediate use or stored as fat. Let us know your typical meal pattern.
 
Daibell said:
Hi. I wonder is you are eating too many carbs? Insulin will always encourage weight gain as it enables the body to metabolise the carbs into energy for immediate use or stored as fat. Let us know your typical meal pattern.
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Normally 3 weetabix for breakfast. Brown bread sandwich for lunch and then a meal at night. Normally something with rice or pasta. Need to try brown pasta as brown rice I can't get on with
 
jimmy1221 said:
Normally 3 weetabix for breakfast. Brown bread sandwich for lunch and then a meal at night. Normally something with rice or pasta. Need to try brown pasta as brown rice I can't get on with
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carbohydrates in weetabix 27.3 fir 2 so i would say in 3 approx 40 grams plus milk say 10 grams total = 50 grams
you may do need this much if you doing manual work as you would use it up over 3/4 hours if i had that for breakfast insulin would be about 3 units of insulin , you may need to reduce just a tad my intake for breakfast is 30 grams but i am old silver retired man
but we are all different ok good luck vic
 
vic hill said:
carbohydrates in weetabix 27.3 fir 2 so i would say in 3 approx 40 grams plus milk say 10 grams total = 50 grams
you may do need this much if you doing manual work as you would use it up over 3/4 hours if i had that for breakfast insulin would be about 3 units of insulin , you may need to reduce just a tad my intake for breakfast is 30 grams but i am old silver retired man
but we are all different ok good luck vic
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I take 50 units of insulin at night and 45 units in the morning something isn't right. Got hospital next week...
 
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