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Insulin pens

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Stressabeccy

Stressabeccy

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Hello my name is Stressabeccy and i am New to this forum. I have had diabetes for 10 years and previously used tablets as medication. I recently switched to insulin pens but they do not work as good as they should. Is there a spesific tecnique to applying it? My doctor doesnt pay enough attention. Tried many ways but my bloodsugar Just Will not reduce. Does anyone have any advice 4 me?
 
Stressabeccy said:
Hello my name is Stressabeccy and i am New to this forum. I have had diabetes for 10 years and previously used tablets as medication. I recently switched to insulin pens but they do not work as good as they should. Is there a spesific tecnique to applying it? My doctor doesnt pay enough attention. Tried many ways but my bloodsugar Just Will not reduce. Does anyone have any advice 4 me?
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Hi there and welcome to the forum

What insulin/s are you using? It might be that your dose/s need adjusted which your doctor or a diabetic nurse would need to work with you in doing

@everydayupsanddowns can you split this into a new thread as worried it will get missed xx
 
Kaylz said:
Hi there and welcome to the forum

What insulin/s are you using? It might be that your dose/s need adjusted which your doctor or a diabetic nurse would need to work with you in doing

@everydayupsanddowns can you split this into a new thread as worried it will get missed xx
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I use treseba and novorapid. I used 35 units and IT Just stood still. IT is not worlimg at all
 
Tanks for answering me. I cant eat ore drink anything but weather. If i do it is afawl
 
Hello my name is Stressabeccy and i am New to this forum. I have had diabetes for 10 years and previously used tablets as medication. I recently switched to insulin pens Tresiba and Novorapid Flexpen but they do not work as good as they should. Is there a spesific tecnique to applying it? My doctor doesnt pay enough attention. Tried many ways but my bloodsugar Just Will not reduce. Does anyone have any advice 4 me?
 
Hi and welcome.

Sorry to hear that you are struggling with your diabetes management.

What sort of BG levels are you getting?

Can you talk us through the technique you use for injecting?
The nurse on my DAFNE course once told me about a patient who wasn't removing the needle sleeve when he/she was trying to inject, so obviously no insulin was being injected into them. When you are first introduced to insulin use, your mind is often in a whirl of emotions and it is difficult to take everything in. I know I made one or two silly mistakes in the early days of injecting insulin, like doing the air shot upside down. Do you do an air shot and make sure that insulin is actually coming out of the needle before you dial up your dose and inject it?

Which part of your body are you injecting into? Do you find that the site has become lumpy through injecting into it?

Would it help you to watch a video tutorial of someone going through the routine of injecting so that you can see if you are doing anything different that may be why it isn't working?
 
Tnx for answering 🙂

I have been told and i have seen multiple videos and i am doing right following them. I sat 35 units of novorapid but it is not gjetting down. Nothing. I cant eat ore drink anything but water. Mye blod sugar is on 14.7
 
Stressabeccy said:
I have been told and i have seen multiple videos and i am doing right following them. I sat 35 units of novorapid but it is not gjetting down. Nothing. I cant eat ore drink anything but water. Mye blod sugar is on 14.7
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For most of us 35 units would definitely change things. Not immediately, but within an hour (likely much sooner).

If it didn't, I think we'd suspect something wrong with the pen (the mechanisms are really good but do occasionally fail) or with the insulin (insulins are temperature sensitive, though modern ones are less so). If the Novorapid has been frozen or very hot then it's not going to work. Beyond that, I think you'll need to get back to your healthcare team for help.
 
Do you know your correction factor? 35 units seems a lot if you are not eating anything!

I agree that you need more support from your Diabetes nurse. Something isn't making sense.

When did you last take your Tresiba and how many uints?
 
To add to what the others have said have you been taken off all previous meds? There is only one Type 2 insulin dependant on the forum regularly that I know of with I'd say extreme insulin resistance (sorry hun I do apologise) and that is @Lanny

How long have you been using insulin? xx
 
Two things - what length needles are you using? Perhaps you need a longer length. And how much Tresiba are you taking?

If you’ve just been started on insulin, it’s likely that you were started on less insulin than you actually need so that it can be increased gradually (for safety reasons).

All that assumes a) you’re injecting correctly; and b) you’re waiting long enough for your Novorapid to work. If your blood sugar is high, it can take 3hrs plus before you start to see a drop.
 
Stressabeccy said:
Hello my name is Stressabeccy and i am New to this forum. I have had diabetes for 10 years and previously used tablets as medication. I recently switched to insulin pens Tresiba and Novorapid Flexpen but they do not work as good as they should. Is there a spesific tecnique to applying it? My doctor doesnt pay enough attention. Tried many ways but my bloodsugar Just Will not reduce. Does anyone have any advice 4 me?
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Hi @Stressabeccy ,

I also use Tresiba, although I have type 1 diabetes. Just a couple of things that are worth mentioning about tresiba and insulin in type 2 use. Tresiba is a very long acting insulin and can last up to 48 hrs (but it is taken every 24hrs or around about that, no need to be precise with tresiba). It's also recommended to only change doses no nearer than 3 days between, because it takes 2 days to change effect from one dose to another, leaving at least a day or more to test if the change in dose has made any changes to blood sugars.

Also, from what I have read on the forum from other Type 2's, it can take quite a lot of insulin to bring blood sugars into a reasonable range (4-10 mmol) for type 2's. Also, there seems to be a limit to how much the amount of insulin makes a difference in blood sugar. Once you get to a certain level of insulin dose, the extra amounts that get added on top of that makes no difference. Obvioulsy, plenty of blood testing for blood sugars are needed when changing insulins or doses etc and great care needs to be taken when usisng insulin as it can result in hypo's (low blood sugar), which needs immediate treatement with glucose tablets (or other sweets etc) to bring up blood sugars into a safe range (5-10mmol)

Best speaking with a diabetes specialist or a diabetes nurse, that know what they are talking about (not all of them do).
 
Hello and thank you for answers.

I have had diabetes in 10 years, but started a week ago on insulin. I use 30 units of tresiba. I have Just 500 units with novorapid in 5 days and IT still not working. Nothing.
I have been watching videos on YouTube how you setting this insulin and i do it right. I have only had 3 glass og water today and 30 units og tresiba and mye blod sugar is on 16.8 right now. I dont have a diabetic nurse. I dont know What to do. I feel not good... I hate this Dieabetis. Tank you for this🙂
I am so sorry of my english
 
Thank you for all the information, but still i am so confuse.
No, i dont have a diabetic nurse.
I know alot about diabetisk but inslun i very knew for me and i dont understund because it is not working. I dont know What to do. I Just want it to work so i can live.
 
Stressabeccy said:
Thank you for all the information, but still i am so confuse.
No, i dont have a diabetic nurse.
I know alot about diabetisk but inslun i very knew for me and i dont understund because it is not working. I dont know What to do. I Just want it to work so i can live.
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There is clearly something very wrong going on and as you say you cannot go on with it happening and not being able to eat. At the very least if there is nobody at your GP surgery who can advise you then you need to ask for a contact number of your local diabetic clinic.
You could always phone the diabetes uk helpline, the number is at the top of the page.
 
I have tried 3different pen now and IT is No change so i dont know What to do. I took 10 units for ca 30 minuts ago and nothing.
 
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