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Originally Posted by grace girl  When I'm in range I'm usually around 140-170...but should it also be there if you take a correction? Or would it be higher?
......So I ate and corrected, and two hours later I was 180, and having taken 9 units my mind went crazy trying to decide how to calculate what those remaining 4.5 units would do. |
I guess we are all different. However, like you I'm pretty spiky...there's no way I'm in the normal range at 2 h after eating, 140-170 sounds about typical for me. If I was already high, I would therefore expect to be above my "typical" 2 h of say 150. If I had 4.5 U still "on-board" I would expect that to drop me by 4.5 x 40 = 180 (your correction factor may be different). This would take me to zero except that there would probably still be some food digesting to raise BG. I certainly wouldn't take any more insulin, but would test again in 1h.
I used to use Novorapid (aka Novolog) but I found it too slow. If your food always beats the insulin you might want to try Apidra. It cuts in a bit quicker than either Novolog or Humalog (it peaks at 80-90 mins). With me I find it is 90% gone by 3 h and is completely out of my system by 3.5 h. This makes corrections
SO MUCH EASIER to calculate. I also get far fewer hypos because I don't get caught by the tail.
Sonofi Aventis do a decent disposable pen, the SoloStar.
Joel
