Lanny
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 2
I wasn’t sure at first, but, suspected for a while, that injecting insulin at night seems to have an opposite effect, on me, & actually raises my blood sugars. There is maybe an issue with me being menopausal now: hormones?
I slept this afternoon, just after having my dinner early at 15:00, & woke around 19:00. I got up & tested at 19:30 BS 8.2. I thought I might get hungry later but, no was quite happy. 21:30 rolled around & still not hungry! So, decided to test to see if my basal dose was right for me, as I remember from a link from Trophey wench. BS 8.3, reassuring that it’s holding steady!
Now, this next bit may not have been completely sensible but, I wanted to test how much 1 unit of Novorapid would bring my BS down by in 1 hour.
After seeing my hospital team on 22/03/18, my dietian, despite officially not advocating carb counting in T2’s, agreed to teach me. I got my appointment to see her on 24/04/18.
I’m getting 2 free new meters from Freestyle Abbott, from their Progress programme, an upgrade of my very old Freestyle mini to a Freedon lite & an Insulinx. I told them I had been testing 8-12 times a day since being ill in hospital last May 2017, due to the high doses of steroids I was on for weeks & the ongoing effects on my BS. My hospital team need the readings to adjust my insulin doses. There’s a insulin calculator on the insulinx.
After searching for threads about the insulinx, I found one very helpful post, about 5/6 years ago, where there were 2 links, 1; her review of the meter & 2; the training course that was run by the Abbott company to train people about carb counting & how to use it in conjunction with the meter.
That 2nd. was very useful in that I learnt how to work out my insulin to carbs ratio & how to use how much 1 unit of bolus brings down my BS by in 1 hour with the calculator.
So, I thought I would try & find that out. I injected 1 unit Novorapid just after testing at 21:30 & tested it exactly 1 hour later, timer on Timesulin cap, & was mildly surprised to find it had risen to 9.2.
I had noticed that if I bolused for a late night night snack; sugars are higher on waking in the morning. But, if I didn’t bolus for it, my sugars were lower in the morning. I wasn’t sure as I’m not snacking as much as I did since my reduction in cals from around 4000/day to around 1200-1500/day.
Not only that, I wasn’t hungry at all before injecting & now started to get very hungry. I gave in & had sandwiches & tea around 23:00 & bolused for it. I wouldn’t be surprised if my BS is higher in morning.
Is this normal? My BS always dropped as the day went on & overnight before I was menopausal: less than a year now!
I slept this afternoon, just after having my dinner early at 15:00, & woke around 19:00. I got up & tested at 19:30 BS 8.2. I thought I might get hungry later but, no was quite happy. 21:30 rolled around & still not hungry! So, decided to test to see if my basal dose was right for me, as I remember from a link from Trophey wench. BS 8.3, reassuring that it’s holding steady!
Now, this next bit may not have been completely sensible but, I wanted to test how much 1 unit of Novorapid would bring my BS down by in 1 hour.
After seeing my hospital team on 22/03/18, my dietian, despite officially not advocating carb counting in T2’s, agreed to teach me. I got my appointment to see her on 24/04/18.
I’m getting 2 free new meters from Freestyle Abbott, from their Progress programme, an upgrade of my very old Freestyle mini to a Freedon lite & an Insulinx. I told them I had been testing 8-12 times a day since being ill in hospital last May 2017, due to the high doses of steroids I was on for weeks & the ongoing effects on my BS. My hospital team need the readings to adjust my insulin doses. There’s a insulin calculator on the insulinx.
After searching for threads about the insulinx, I found one very helpful post, about 5/6 years ago, where there were 2 links, 1; her review of the meter & 2; the training course that was run by the Abbott company to train people about carb counting & how to use it in conjunction with the meter.
That 2nd. was very useful in that I learnt how to work out my insulin to carbs ratio & how to use how much 1 unit of bolus brings down my BS by in 1 hour with the calculator.
So, I thought I would try & find that out. I injected 1 unit Novorapid just after testing at 21:30 & tested it exactly 1 hour later, timer on Timesulin cap, & was mildly surprised to find it had risen to 9.2.
I had noticed that if I bolused for a late night night snack; sugars are higher on waking in the morning. But, if I didn’t bolus for it, my sugars were lower in the morning. I wasn’t sure as I’m not snacking as much as I did since my reduction in cals from around 4000/day to around 1200-1500/day.
Not only that, I wasn’t hungry at all before injecting & now started to get very hungry. I gave in & had sandwiches & tea around 23:00 & bolused for it. I wouldn’t be surprised if my BS is higher in morning.
Is this normal? My BS always dropped as the day went on & overnight before I was menopausal: less than a year now!
