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Originally Posted by Subby

I've used novorapid for many years, and since starting the pump. It has always taken long times - commonly 2 hours, and up to 4 hours to kick in for me. This lag time has improved on the pump but I still get caught in a huge upward spin if it decides for whatever factor, to hold off on action for an hour or so.

Yeah this Novoslow as many of us know it can last a long time like 5 hours or so and then again to what you are doing too like mowing the lawn or something physical and it's lunchtime so you count the carbs and see 5.5 / 99 so within 20 minuets it will swing in to action!! and that's no joke! but if you be at the computer and then time for lunch then you would be waiting forever for a onset of the insulin to work.
Gee if we have had a insulin to work as fast as the food to react then we would have better results would we.

What do you think? I may need to put up a good argument for the doctor to allow this trial. It sounds like it should be compatible with th pump, yes? Anyone know if it is available in Australia? I'd love some feedback from users of Apidra.

I think that you would have no problems on getting the insulin but the manufacturer say it's fast well I think that would be of some argument to say just on how fast it really is. Still have a go at this and post of your results.