Novarapid

[Deleted member 25429]

I have to inject in my leg as I have bad scaring on my stomach due to an emergency operation. Looking at my novarapid response time, unless I go for a walk straight after injecting it is just under an hour . Does anyone else experience this ?

 

[Kaylz]

Different sites absorb at different rates, it can also depend on time of day, it varies for everyone but longest I need to wait is 25 minutes after using my thigh and that's for breakfast, dinner I use the other and only need 10 minutes xx

 

[Ljc]

There was a time when I had to wait around 50 minutes before I could eat, others here experience the same. Puttiting it politely it was a pain in the backside.

I am wondering if you tried other sites thou can use to inject, would help, I will try to find a diagram

 

[Ljc]

Apologies if you already know this, I just though it may help.

 

[Inka]

Have you experimented with different length needles? Too long or too short can affect things, and it’s not unusual to need a different length for a particular body area.

Novorapid might just be playing up to its nickname (Notveryrapid) so another option is to try Humalog, for example.

 

[Pumper_Sue]

I have to inject in my leg as I have bad scaring on my stomach due to an emergency operation. Looking at my novarapid response time, unless I go for a walk straight after injecting it is just under an hour . Does anyone else experience this ?

Hello Freddie,
what are your blood sugars like before you inject? Have you done any basal testing to see if you actually need more basal? It would be interesting to see what happens to your blood sugars if you skip a meal.
If your bloods are stable would a different length of needle help?

 

[Robin]

I inject basal and bolus at the same time at breakfast time, and I have been known to stick my Novorapid in my leg by mistake. I’ve found it takes a lot longer to get going when I've done that,(maybe an hour as opposed to the usual half hour) causing a spike a breakfast, though the end result is the same.

 

[Deleted member 25429]

Hello Freddie,
what are your blood sugars like before you inject? Have you done any basal testing to see if you actually need more basal? It would be interesting to see what happens to your blood sugars if you skip a meal.
If your bloods are stable would a different length of needle help?

Hba1c is always around 40 . Basal is ok as tested that . Needles is a thought I’ll look into it . Just doing tests now every 1/4 hr to see when sugars start to fall . Nothing yet and I’m at 3/4 of an hour after injection

 

[Deleted member 25429]

Apologies if you already know this, I just though it may help.
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Thanks for this really helpful x

 

[rebrascora]

I have occasionally gone an hour and a half at breakfast time between injecting and eating with NR, particularly if my levels were a bit high to start with. I too find stomach is the fastest site and thighs slower even if I do squats after injecting... makes no difference at all. Lunch and dinner time is usually about 20-30 mins.
Libre has been great in identifying the point at which the insulin starts to work and I can eat, but there have been quite a few occasions where I found something to do in the interim period and then got distracted and ended up going too low.... I soon come back up though when I eat breakfast.

 

[rebrascora]

I am swapping back to Fiasp which works a bit quicker.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I’ve been using sides and lower back as pump infusion sites and they have worked as rapidly as my abdomen ever did.

Weirdly I have found my ‘need to wait x minute’ times have tumbled over the last year. No idea why, but I almost daren’t prebolus at lunch any more, and Breakfast has dropped from 45 minutes to 15-20

 

[trophywench]

Well it took a good while for any medic actually responsible for my 'brands' of insulin to get around to prescribing Novorapid for me - I'd already been T1 for over 25 years by then - so that might be the difference, but it starts to work approx 10 minutes after I inject it - and always has unless my pump cannula is inserted in a malabsorption area. In which case deep sigh and correction bolus by pen into my 'midriff bulge' fairly instantly sorts it. Then insert new cannula elsewhere and put it down to more experience. There are still some areas of both belly and bum that absorb quite well, it's just trying to remember where they are and aren't that's the puzzle!

More recently I'm experimenting with my thighs - outer thigh, front thigh - forget them. Slightly to the inner of front thigh - so far, brill!