Restaurant eating and insulin dose

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Hi All, i started on my insulin yesterday and have been aiming to take it at 06:00 and 18:00, my wife has booked us in to a restaurant tonight for 19:30, can i leave it until then, before taking my evening dose, I'm taking Novomix 30?
 
Longer term this is one of the snags with mixed insulin. It does sort of tie you in to its schedule - and you can’t so easily alter meal sizes, skip, or delay meals without things going a bit out of kilter.

I guess it would depend on how much insulin you are still making yourself, and whether the mixed is just a bit of a ‘top up’ to help… but you may ultimately prefer a system with separate jabs for ‘background needs’ (once a day) and a faster acting one whenever you are eating a meal. That way you can skip a meal, or have much larger or smaller ones at times to suit you @Alba14
 
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Longer term this is one of the snags with mixed insulin. It does sort of tie you in to its schedule - and you can’t so easily alter meal sizes, skip, or delay meals without things going a bit out of kilter.

I guess it would depend on how much insulin you are still making yourself, and whether the mixed is just a bit of a ‘top up’ to help… but you may ultimately prefer a system with separate jabs for ‘background needs’ (once a day) and a faster acting one whenever you are eating a meal. That way you can skip a meal, or have much larger or smaller ones at times to suit you @Alba14
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Hi, Its only been a few days having to take insulin, readings have been a bit up and down. Aye Wed night was an eye opener, thought I was eating the right things, no chips, lower amount of carbs, reading in the morning was 11.1, probably the crackers with the cheese, lol. I'm taking 2 x 4ml Novo mix along with Metformin 2 x 500mg (Twice daily) & Dapaghflzin 1 x 10mg, pretty sure I'm not producing very much natural insulin 🙂 Och well, its all a learning curve and this site helps a lot.
 
If that is 2 x 4 units of Novomix (rather than 4mls) then it is likely that you are still producing quite a lot of your own insulin as that is a relatively small dose. Insulin is generally administered in units and most pens contain 3mls and there are usually 100units per ml, so 4mls would be a whole pen and a bit, whereas 4 units would just be a very small dose from one pen.
Hope you have a lovely meal but I agree with the others that it will likely be best to take it just before you eat the meal.

How long have you been diagnosed? That seems like quite a lot of different medications to be taking for your diabetes!
 
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If that is 2 x 4 units of Novomix (rather than 4mls) then it is likely that you are still producing quite a lot of your own insulin as that is a relatively small dose. Insulin is generally administered in units and most pens contain 3mls and there are usually 100units per ml, so 4mls would be a whole pen and a bit, whereas 4 units would just be a very small dose from one pen.
Hope you have a lovely meal but I agree with the others that it will likely be best to take it just before you eat the meal.

How long have you been diagnosed? That seems like quite a lot of different medications to be taking for your diabetes!
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Aye it will be 4 units 🙂 properly diagnosed for over 10 years, i thought that once i went on insulin that i wouldnt be taking anymore pills
 
Alba14 said:
Hi All, i started on my insulin yesterday and have been aiming to take it at 06:00 and 18:00, my wife has booked us in to a restaurant tonight for 19:30, can i leave it until then, before taking my evening dose, I'm taking Novomix 30?
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I'm on novomix 30 and like you I am taking my doses at 6am and 6pm. This is perfect during the week because of my working schedule etc, but I find that at the weekends I'm taking breakfast later, up to 7.30am. Also I have been away recently and so both meal times were different meaning later breakfasts, and evening meals up to 7pm. I googled about the times for novomix and read that doses are to be taken between 10 to 14 hours, meaning my deviation is covered and I have had no issues with this. So your 7.30pm should still be ok, but as others say don't take the injection any earlier as you will go hypo. It's a little daunting taking insulin in a public place, but I have done it a few times now and it's not an issue for me. Nobody takes any notice.
 
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