Anyone take Novolog after meal?

[Oradev]

Does anyone take their Novolog bolus after they eat?

[cat_collector]

depending on what my blood sugar is I might wait until after my meal . But foro the most part I take it right before i eat .

Tracy

[sweetlife]

My daughter doing this since last 2 days after lunch and on 1st day her ppbs was 122,next day it was 160.

[Oradev]

My daughter doing this since last 2 days after lunch and on 1st day her ppbs was 122,next day it was 160.

Why did she start doing this? I was wondering because when I take my Novolog before my meal my sugars are always low after the meal (one to two hours). I think it's reacting too quickly.

[Subby]

Oradev, given relatively normal carbs in the meal, this suggests to me you are taking too much, not that it's too fast.

[brendersue]

I used to be on Novolog. I also had gastroparesis, which made my digestion go very slow. I always had to wait until after I ate to take Novolog, or I would go low as I was finishing my meal. If I ate Pizza or anything with fat or lots of cheese in it, I had to eat, wait 30 minutes, then bolus. Lots of meat will take longer to digest also. Not sure if your high fiber would affect the situation, but others might know.

[sweetlife]

Oradev
Coz of exams going on and timings are such that she hardly finishes her study,get on dining table for meal and then go to school after taking shot,this is temporary but I dont see any major change in her ppbs if she takes shot b4 or after meal.

Problem is with our diet,we are 100% veggie and most of our foods are with carbs,can't help,no she has no issue of going low after or before meal in any case.
I was wondering because when I take my Novolog before my meal my sugars are always low after the meal (one to two hours). I think it's reacting too quickly.

[Oradev]

I have not digestion problems (I've had that checked). Also, when I take a correction (sugars above 200), my sugars drop really fast (like within 30 minutes). Is this normal or way too fast? What is everyone's experience with this?

[Subby]

Can you give actual examples of how fast a correction typically works, and what happens with your BG?

As an observation, if it really does all rush in at 30 min, the low with your boluses would be more likely to be at 30 - 50min mark, not 2 hour mark.

I'm not saying it's not possibly a problem of speed, but given no digestion issues and normal carbs, at the 2 hour mark your carbs should be well and truly in effect, and it's more likely too much effective insulin eing too much for the carbs, once the fully fledged battle is joined at that stage.

How do you know your I:C is currently correct, and not just too low (too much dose)?

What happens at the two hours.... what do _you_ do, how do you BGs react? What occurs over the next few hours?

The reason I'm suggesting you look right into this first, is that if you follow the track of it being a speed issue and it is not, and you decide to defer your bolus, it can appear to improve the situation, but will complicate things and will not be able to ultimately provide the solution.

[Mich]

I take my novolog afterward sometimes if I am eating a low GI food, or if a large part of my meal is a low GI food.

For me, fiber and fat added to a meal cause slower absorption. Wasa crackers with anything else makes it lower GI, for instance.

Mich

[UpNorth]

I mostly take my bolus while eating or just after finishing my meal. I only really take it before eating if i'm a little bit higher than i'd like to be. And i never know before how much i'll eat LOL

[Lizzie G]

I generally bolus up to 30 minutes before I eat, depending what Im eating. If Im eating pizza I would tend to take say 3 units 20 minutes before then another 3 or 4 units about a half hour after; i cant think of a time where i would take it all after a meal unless i was eating something super high fat!