2 part question novolog (blood, eat, blood sugar, insulin)
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If you take Novolog or another Rapid Acting Insulin. How many units do you inject at mealtimes? Is it a pretty standard amount or varies?
My other question. Does anyone get their insulin thru the mail?. I do but have started having problems with length of time to process and receive the shipment. The order I got Friday. Well that Novolog seems to have absolutely no potency. CVS Caremark received the script the 17th and I got it Friday the 25th. I'm going to CVS store with the pen, but I see problems with them helping me. Mainly because it came from the mail order end of CVS.
If you take Novolog or another Rapid Acting Insulin. How many units do you inject at mealtimes? Is it a pretty standard amount or varies?
i take it according to my blood sugar readings, if its high i could take as much as 20-30 units but be very careful with this drug as it can leave you hypoglycemic real fast. follow the directions of your endocrinologist.
Think about an insulin pump. My Type I diabetes is much better controlled since I went on Omnipod.
Carbs are not the same. Some will cause a spike, some will raise your blood sugar slowly but surely. Indeed, eating high spiking carbs with protein may delay the sugar elevation.
One nice thing about the Omnipod (and the other insulin pumps, from my understanding) is that you may program in the number of carbs you are about to eat, and then program the release of the insulin over a period of time to cover the carb action.
For instance, if I am about to eat 30 carbs, with a current blood sugar of 140, my Omnipod may suggest having (I am making up numbers) 20 units of insulin. If I think the carbs will enter slowly into my blood stream, I will ask the Pod to release 15 percent immediately, but the rest of the insulin over the next 90 minutes.
It is a science, plus guessing. If I am about to have 75 carbs, for instance, I may program 25 percent insulin dosage immediately, with the remainder over two hours. If my blood sugar starts spiking after an hour, I can still bolus to combat it. Sometimes I even cancel the prolonged insulin program, and keep programing immediate bolus.
It is a difficult condition at best to control. However, when I got my pump, it is easier.
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