Hi. Thanks for asking. I was using Humalog, with Levemir as my long-acting. I've used more insulins than I can remember over the years, mostly with reasonable control, but finally moved on to a pump because I had become a lot more flaky, both during the day and overnight, sometimes but not in a predictable way. Now, with the Fiasp, things seem to be under much better control, but I just generally don't feel on top form: tired and/or a bit sad (!), which is not like me at all. I felt much the same way when I was first prescribed statins, which I took for a couple of weeks before rejecting them as I was exhausted the whole time.
Hello and welcome to the forum.
Well, I will see what my diabetes clinic thinks I could try next, to see what difference it makes. Thanks 🙂
Thanks. I saw this and will follow it up. I did search and couldn't see any reason given as to why, though.
Thank you!
I see I've learned something already! I used to use Novorapid, and before that Actrapid (possibly in the other order, I don't remember now), and I do know that whenever I have been told to change to a different insulin it was because it was beginning not to suit me for one reason or another. The liberating thing about Actrapid, then Humalog, was its fast-acting nature, because it seems rarely to be convenient to have to inject and wait for ages. The wonderful thing about having the pod is that I can now feel free to have a snack if I want to and "just" have a bolus to take care of it. I've already noticed in the forum that several people call Novorapid "sluggish" and "not-so-fast", which is less encouraging, although if these insulins all work better for some than others, I guess it may be down to trial and error.
Good to know that there's a "club"! Also very interesting to see how many insulins are being mentioned here that I have never had any reason to have heard of. I suppose that once you get into looking at forum discussions, these names will crop up and if you don't, they won't!
I expect so. My next job is to tie down my diabetes nurse, which is easier said than done. Thank you.
Thanks. We really are all different by the sound of it. This must be a challenge in itself for the diabetes teams to manage. I've moved house three times in the last 20 years and have noticed that each clinic seems to have products that "they" use. I'm very pleased to have been offered the pod, which is only a minor inconvenience when it comes to wearing it. I was given a combo pump about 4 years ago and found it worse than useless (for me) as the applicator for the cannula failed as often as it worked and then I seemed not to be getting the insulin even though the boluses were shown as being given. I had too many readings of HI or 2.6 to feel I dared ever go out anywhere. And then there was "what to do with the tube?". Now with the pod I feel freeeee!
I've a clinic appointment in July so am hoping to get Libre2. I can't see why they haven't funded it as it's the same price as Libre 1. Yes, we are grateful for the fast attention hubby got for his prostate.
I can't see the logic of their not wanting people to swop from Libre 1 to Libre 2. Libre 2 is hardly any different from Libre 1 except that it has an alarm (it's optional) so if your blood glucose level falls below a pre-programmed level, it gives a loud warning. This has been really helpful for me over the past few months as i tend not to notice if I am going low. In the middle of the night the alarm is even more of a bonus as you are awoken at the point it has dropped (well, ten minutes' leeway), which means you are less likely to wake up with a really thick head the next morning.
