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Hello @Vwvonnie Taking insulin shouldn't make you feel sick, unless it's injecting which I understand you're fairly new to, which is making you feel unwell.
 
I hope not: as type 1, I have no choice.
After 14 years of taking insulin, I am no more sick than I was before I had diabetes.

As I think @ringi is suggesting, perhaps your sick feeling may be due to lower BG than usual: nausea is a common symptom of a hypo (or false hypo)/
 
ringi said:
Have you just started the insulin? Whats your BG levels like?
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Only a few days on it one reading is down to 13 then shoots up to 28-30 after iv eaten just trying to juggle it as I work nights and only really eat once a day
 
I can get nauseous on higher doses of novorapid. I usually split the dose if its a carb heavy meal
 
Vwvonnie said:
Hi all
Can taking insulin make you feel really sick? X
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some people can't tolerate artificial insulin , ie , human and analogue , if you go on the IDDT website there is information there , there is an alternative of pork insulin which I am on but you may have to fight to get on it with your healthcare people telling you its not available any more and other rubbish - crazy really as its cheaper than the artificial
 
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