Humalog 25 mix

[MeganN]

Is anyone on this?
What dosages do you take? (I know we are all different I'm just curious 🙂 )
I'm now up to 10 units. Started on 4 units on Wednesday but it doesn't seem to be doing much. Am I expecting results too soon?

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Hi Megan,
stop being impatient 😛
Yes it does take a little while to sort out your right dose. Even though you are frustrated it's better to take it slowly rather than going in gun ho and ending up with a massive hypo.
Can you see any difference at all in your numbers?
Also are you injecting once or twice a day?
Is your nurse easy to get hold of, if so give her a ring and say how much at a time can I increase from and in what time scale?

 

[pippaandben]

Is anyone on this?
What dosages do you take? (I know we are all different I'm just curious 🙂 )
I'm now up to 10 units. Started on 4 units on Wednesday but it doesn't seem to be doing much. Am I expecting results too soon?

I am on this mix and have been since the end of September. I started on 10 units before breakfast and before dinner. However I was finding that this was giving me really low BG readings late morning ie about 4 hours later. To the extent that if I was gardening or carrying heavy shopping it went down to the 3s and I felt shaky and sweaty and having to take glucose tablets. So after a week I was changed to 8 morning and 12 evening. This has been ok but morning readings were still closer to 10 than was liked so it was tweaked to 13 in the evening and this - at the moment - seems to suit me. It did surprise me how quickly the insulin took effect. After being in the high 20s and low 30s within 24 hours I was in the 5s and 6s at bedtime and paniking I would have a night hypo. It took a couple of meetings with my nurse to cover every detail eg sickness rules, how to tweak doses yourself and travelling problems to consider. Do make a list of questions as they occur to you - it is so much easier for both of you. My nurse then said what she would cover at each of the next meetings. Hope all goes well.

 

[MeganN]

Hi everyone.

Nurse said I can move it up 2 units per day and see what happens. I think it's the night time that needs more tweaking as I'm waking high. I took 8 units last night and woke up at 10.1.
Took 10 units this morning and 2 hrs later was at 10.4.

Think it's deff the evening that needs the correction.

 

[lisa pirinc]

humalog mix 25

Hi megan,

I am on humalog mix 25, after have a blip with my diabetes I started taking it on 10/7/12 after being admitted to hostpital and they started me on 4 unit twice a day b4 breakfast and b4 dinner by the time I was discharged I was taking 16 units in the morning and 8 in the evening.

I went on holiday with my family on 26th of september🙂 and I was taking 30 units in the morning and 28 in the evening and the 6 weeks prior to the holiday taking them units by bms were spot on always between 5-7 only had hypos if i skipped a meal or eat later then normal by which I mean if we had dinner at 5 if i didnt eat till 7 say i would know about it.

but I also take 2 metformin 500mg twice a day.

all in all it took me 8 weeks give or take a few days to get my dose right.

stick with it from my 7 year of being a diabetic and all my life having a family member with diabetes I have learned its like a growing person always changing a needed and wanting differnt things I have been on 4 differnt insulins till I found thay humalog mix 25 worked for me and as stressful and mentally challanging as it is you have to stay strong and wait ill you find a dose and insulin that works for you.

 

[MeganN]

I'm so impatient 🙂

 

[Northerner]

I'm so impatient 🙂

Megan, you're not the first person to feel that way! 🙂 I have 'met' so many people here who have felt exactly the same, but remember - it's a marathon, not a sprint! 🙂

 

[MeganN]

Thanks northener. It's nice to have some like minded people to get advice from.

Have to go back to nurse on Monday. Getting little red rings appear at my injection sites. She thinks I may need either a needle or insulin change. They don't hurt and aren't large they are just 'there' lol