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Lorraine Strachan

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This just happened 10 mins ago don't understand why?
Took 7 units of Novorapid with supper, pasta. Sugars were 9.4.
at 7pm. At 9.50pm I started feeling sick, shaking, hot. Thought I would check bloods and they were 3.9. I'm quite new to all this injecting but don't know why this happened so quickly!!!! Novorapid meant to last 4 hrs?
 
Are you carb counting?
You could be more sensitive to insulin in the evening ) +/or your digestion could be slower. I find I have to bolus about half an hour after I've had my evening otherwise I'm guaranteed to go hypo.
 
What was with the pasta? - if it's a fatty sauce or cheesy - this slows down the speed at which the carbs hit the blood stream. Typically I'll get a spike a few hours after I eat such things so have to split my bolus for it. I have some immediately before eating it, and then the rest about 60 minutes later. It's known as the pizza effect and that's the way you can get round it - but nobody can tell you how much of when, you have to test test test and find out how it affects you and proceed accordingly.

If I have more than about 50g carb-worth of either pasta or rice with such a sauce, bolusing for it, for me, is complicated - so I simply don't eat any more of it these days - it is enough for me in truth so that's fine. But everyone is different and you'll have to do whatever's best for you and you can cope with.
 
The other thing to consider is that there's a good chance your pancreas is still producing irregular amounts of insulin, so even if you calculate your dose exactly right for your meal, you may still get a hypo.
 
Lorraine you've asked on another post about gastroparesis. I'm not saying that you have that but one of the signs is going hypo after a meal because insulin is hitting the system sooner than the food digesting. However the comments from others on this thread could equally explain why you are having a hypo after your meal.
 
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