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Side effects of analogue insulins?

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I think I just really need to do some adjusting with the amount of insulin I need.

The good news is that I don't feel like my sugars are adjusting up and down quite so rapidly. I feel like it isn't quite as 'harsh' as what NovoRapid was.

Will keep you informed. Just a few teething problems, as to be expected on first day I suppose 🙂
 
Catherine-louise said:
Ugh! I have been into town today with my Mum and walking around shops for an hour and a half and it has been one hypo after another, I feel absolutely ghastly and so exhausted and weepy :'(
I don't know whether to decrease my afternoon basal rates or my carb ratios/boluses with lunch?

Cate
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Cate, that's horrible, but don't panic, that can happen to anybody starting on a new regime. The reason is clearly too much insulin, but it could be either the bolus or the basal rates. You'll have to talk to the nurse again. It would be wrong to use the same rates as you did with the other insulin because if the theory that your body was reacting against the other insulin is correct, it would not be working efficiently. My instinct would be to say reduce the basal, for sure, and it wouldn't do you any harm to reduce your bolus for your evening meal, say by 20% for now. I'm sure Sue will see your post and advise you with more certainty. You may have to go through the routine fasting establishment of your basal rates on the new insulin.

With all that going on, it would be a daft question to ask if your other symptoms are any better.
 
I would suggest you reduce all of your basals by at least 20% and if you didn't change your duration of insulin that certainly wont help. Animal insulin also kicks hard at the 6 hour mark as well so you need to factor that in.

You need to do a lot of basal testing as animal insulin is a completely different ball game to analogue insulin.
 
Thankyou both of you for your support. It's so nice to have somewhere to come where other people know exactly what it feels like. 🙂

I'm glad I've experienced a hypo (or many hypos!) on porcine insulin. I was intrigued to know if there would be any difference in hypo symptoms. The hypo symptoms didn't pack quite as much punch as the NovoRapid hypo symptoms. In fact I was walking in town and felt that familiar low blood sugar feeling and when I tested it was 3.3mmol. Normally on NovoRapid, I would feel hypo at anything under 5.0mmol. It's certainly quite fascinating, getting to grips with it all.

My pre-meal blood sugar before my evening meal was 8.8mmol. I was expecting a rebound high reading after my hypos this afternoon. That's what usually happened on Novorapide. But I was very pleasantly surprised this evening on Porcine 🙂
Cate
 
I'm so, so pleased that you can find it fascinating after the torture you've had all this time. It will be interesting for you to get it sorted. It's a bit like getting a vintage Bentley after driving round in a Lamborghini🙂
 
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