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So far today my insulin dose has not had any affect on my numbers. But this can be normal for me. When I was on a basal bolus routine this happened too.
With 100 units basal and 30 plus bolus units.
So I'm not surprised. And I didn't eat today with the insulin as I'm not interested in making the numbers worse.
 
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One of my old issues has returned. When I eat anytime it sets off a weird eating thing (even when I had a normal amount of food and not with diabetes). It's that when I first eat in the day anytime that may be-- a sort of frenzy starts. Where I just eat and keep eating.
Now with the days of having to try to eat before noon--- as opposed to waiting til 5-- I just want to eat and eat. Thereby using my 2nd meal up. There's only 1 thing I can think of to solve this. Just take the evening injection.
(My family claims the same issue but is not diabetic and has no health issues and exercises properly and isn't overweight and eats good foods.)
 
Going to need to miss a few suppers now. Which means to be safe no supper injection.
 
Tuesday said:
It didn't matter if it was a can of tuna or soup or cheese. But now it's a carby drink sometimes with a little shredded cheese.
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If it was just one can that would be ok. Perhaps you are actually hungry if you’ve only been eating one meal a day?
 
Inka said:
If it was just one can that would be ok. Perhaps you are actually hungry if you’ve only been eating one meal a
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I can trace the extreme hunger back to 2010 . Nothing significant happened in my life. So I'm not sure what's going on. I've only been diabetic since 2014.
And the binging (with purging) I can trace back to 1995. Nothing happened then either. The purging part stopped in 1998.
I got help when it was with purging.
But the hunger stays with normal eating. Which I did do until these prices pushed me out plus the digestive issues worsening and can be traced back to 1979.
So it all seems continuous and not able to be helped.
 
Honestly I can’t understand why you switched to mixed insulin. Why didn’t you just switch to a different basal bolus so you can eat when you choose to? You’ve made things more restrictive for yourself and now you’re skipping injections and putting your health at risk because when you do that you have no background insulin on board.

I’d go back to basal bolus, a different one to previously if you prefer, and document all of your finances, every single income and expenditure, to work out how you can get more coming in or less going out to spend slightly more on food.
 
Lucyr said:
Honestly I can’t understand why you switched to mixed insulin. Why didn’t you just switch to a different basal bolus so you can eat when you choose to? You’ve made things more restrictive for yourself and now you’re skipping injections and putting your health at risk because when you do that you have no background insulin on board.

I’d go back to basal bolus, a different one to previously if you prefer, and document all of your finances, every single income and expenditure, to work out how you can get more coming in or less going out to spend slightly more on food.
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Side effects.
 
Tuesday said:
Side effects.
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Mixed insulin is just long and short acting insulin mixed together, it’s not some magical completely different medication. Seperate insulins would give better control, if you reacted to one specific insulin you can try a different one
 
So if you like the novolin 70/30, here’s what’s mixed into it (from Google)

Novolin 70/30 is a mixture of 70% NPH, Human Insulin Isophane Suspension and 30% Regular, Human Insulin Injection (recombinant DNA origin).

Novolin NPH is an intermediate insulin, essentiallly being used in the mix as a background insulin. Novolin R is being used as the short acting insulin. If those specific insulins work for you when mixed up into one injection then they’d work seperately too, but be more flexible to match the carbs you eat.
 
Lucyr said:
Mixed insulin is just long and short acting insulin mixed together, it’s not some magical completely different medication. Seperate insulins would give better control, if you reacted to one specific insulin you can try a different one
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My plan only covers trurapri. And 3 forms of glargine. I've tried all those 4 .
 
Anyway I'm well into the adf. No bs issues. I'm very insulin resistant.
But I'm finding the not eating difficult on the non eating day. So switching to eating when I reach a 4 and only then. Well drinking things not eating, due to mouth pain and no teeth.
 
Tuesday said:
My plan only covers trurapri. And 3 forms of glargine. I've tried all those 4 .
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Have you asked if there’s a way for it to cover NPH and R? They’re old insulins so should be fairly cheap just less popular.
 
Lucyr said:
Sounds like that’s the clear next step then. If you don’t ask you won’t get.
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I haven't asked because I'm 100 percent stressed about the diabetes and other health issues and completely overwhelmed and nearly and very close to NOT doing a thing about the diabetes. I would have to have this change in some way before making any changes.
 
Tuesday said:
I haven't asked because I'm 100 percent stressed about the diabetes and other health issues and completely overwhelmed and nearly and very close to NOT doing a thing about the diabetes. I would have to have this change in some way before making any changes.
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Wouldn’t having the flexibility to match your insulin dose and timings to when you drink the carbs and when you need corrections reduce the stress about diabetes as would improve blood sugars?
 
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