Started Insulin

[veganlass]

Novamix 10u for now twice a day Morning/ evening and be re assessed next week after seeing my BG's. Injected just now. Easy peasy.🙂

Ive bought some barley sugars in case of any hypo's.

 

[Robster65]

Well done! 🙂

Just resist the urge to pop a barley sugar in until you've tested (we know all the tricks and we'll be watching! 😎).

It really is quite easy isn't it? It's all the dietary stuff and the rigmarole that goes with it that is the pain in the bum.

Have you been told to stick to fixed amounts of carbs at meal times to match the novomix?

Rob

 

[veganlass]

No. For the first week I think she wants to see how it goes firstly before suggesting anything. I am controlling my carbs snyway.

 

[Robster65]

Good thinking. Hope you're testing plenty.

And I hope it gives you a bit more freedom in your life. I always feel that injecting insulin (by whatever means) to enable eating of carbs is a much more flexible regime than simply restricting food.

But not one that's open to everyone.

Rob

 

[Northerner]

Well done veganlass 🙂 I hope that the insulin works really well for you 🙂

 

[veganlass]

Thanks folks🙂. DSN wants me to test 3 times a day for now pre brekkie, pre lunch and at bedtime. The one thing I did forget is I forgot to rotate the pen and upturn it a few times!!.

Still I will remember tomorrow.

 

[Robster65]

Easily done but it will become a habit and when I stopped using 'cloudy' insulin I still found myself gently turning the syringe/pen.

It is important though since the suspended bits are, I think, what delays the absorption.

I'm sure it gets a bit shaken up while dialling the dose though.🙂

Rob

 

[AlisonM]

I have to be careful to mix mine as well it looks horrid if I don't though so I'm unlikely to forget. I hope it goes as well for you as it is for me.

 

[trophywench]

Snap Robster!

Funnily enough - Pete's younger daughter, now kocking 40 had a diabetic best friend who spent more time at their house than hers, so there was always insulin in his fridge years before I was in his life, and today I'd got my Novorapid out of the fridge and it was sitting on the table getting a bit warmer before I filled a new pump reservoir (less air bubbles LOL)

Pete moved it to put something else on the table and automatically inverted and righted the vial before he put it back down again ! - and I have to actually stop myself doing that, and the reservoir before fitting it, since it's open at the top until you do!

 

[veganlass]

Its working. Took it just before teatime and this morning its 7.5 . The lowest its been prior to starting insulin was 9.

 

[Northerner]

Its working. Took it just before teatime and this morning its 7.5 . The lowest its been prior to starting insulin was 9.

Excellent! 🙂

 

[robofski]

I've been injecting Levemir for a week now 14u in the morning and my BG is between 11 and 20, getting quite fed up that the number isn't coming down.

Glad it's working well for you, I guess it's just a case of getting the dose right (and the medication!)

 

[trophywench]

Well Levemir doesn't even last 24 hours, unless you are taking a dose in excess of about 1u per kg. I know you are T2 not T1 - but !

 

[Northerner]

I've been injecting Levemir for a week now 14u in the morning and my BG is between 11 and 20, getting quite fed up that the number isn't coming down.

Glad it's working well for you, I guess it's just a case of getting the dose right (and the medication!)

Robofski, if you're only injecting your levemir in the morning than there is a distinct possibility that it is running out before the following morning. Levemir is thought to have an active profile of around 18 hours or so, so a lot of people split their dose into two injections in order to get better coverage. I'd suggest speaking to your nurse about this possibility 🙂

 

[robofski]

Who says I'm not 14kg

That's interesting to know I'll bring it up with my diabetic nurse next time I see her, but that's going to be at least 4 weeks as I'm away on business from this weekend, not really happy about maintaining such a high BG for so long but don't think I should be messing around with my dose with the minuscule amount of knowledge I have!

 

[robofski]

Splitting the dose is another good idea, thanks.

So much to learn!

 

[veganlass]

Disappointed this morning BG 10.3 and it was high last night.

I think I didnt mix it enough as looking at it inverted this morning the cloudy bit took a while to sink to the needle. Hopefully it will be better today.

 

[Northerner]

Disappointed this morning BG 10.3 and it was high last night.

I think I didnt mix it enough as looking at it inverted this morning the cloudy bit took a while to sink to the needle. Hopefully it will be better today.

Early days still veganlass, it will take a little while to get used to everything. Hope you fare better by tomorrow morning 🙂

 

[mcdonagh47]

Disappointed this morning BG 10.3 and it was high last night.

I think I didnt mix it enough as looking at it inverted this morning the cloudy bit took a while to sink to the needle. Hopefully it will be better today.

Check out some of the Dose Adjustment advice in the pages listed in the link below. I was on Humalog Mix 25 for 8 years and it worked OK as long as I cycled up and down according to the Dose Adjustment notes we were given, there must also be a Dose Adjustment sheet for Novomix ?

Links ...
http://www.google.co.uk/#hl=en&gs_n....,cf.osb&fp=3d43471f6c4e140c&biw=1300&bih=584

 

[veganlass]

Yes I have thought of increasing it slightly but for the first week, I will stick to what the DSN has told me.

It is early days.