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Just as your body can build up an immunity to certain antibiotics and other drugs, insulins can lose their effectiveness. There are different formulas and they all work in slightly different ways. You should ask your doctor if there is an insulin similar to the Novorapid that is less expensive. I am, however, confused by his choice. The Mixtard is a combination of fast acting and slow release insulins, which cover you throughout the day. He has changed you to three injections of fast acting insulin which won't cover you throughout the night. Do you also take Lantus once a day and use the Novorapid at meals?? How have your morning blood sugars been since this change? Do you wake up with highs in the morning? It has been my experience that unless you are on an insulin pump, which supplies your body with a stead stream of fast acting insulin, you need something long acting to keep your Blood sugars even between meals and during the night. Let me know how you are doing and about whether or not you are taking Lantus as well.
I really thank you for your reply.Usually doctors say that diabetic patients shoud be aware of the discese.But if we ask doubt they are getting irritated.They are all money minded.If i ask my above question, the doctor either keeps quiet or he says that you take this treatment,let us see.He is not answering my question of my possibility of reverting back to Mixtard.As you said ,i tested my blood sugar 2 hours after the night meals,the reading was 150 and the next day morning with empty stomach my blood sugar reading was 155, which i intimated to the doctor also.Actually as you said i need a long acting insulin also.So i need a reply for my querry from any one who knows well about this.
But those aren't bad numbers, you know. I am amazed that your blood sugar wasn't way high in the morning. I know you would prefer your numbers to be lower, but at this point on a new insulin, you want to see that the numbers are stable, not all over the map. I have no experience with the insulins you have been on. I am old school, was diagnosed in 1965, wore an insulin pumps for many years and finally had a pancreas transplant. I totally understand about the way doctors treat you, but you have to be demanding. You have to force them to give you information. It is your body!!! I always felt that they feel, because they paid for medical school, that it was their information. Those that want you to do whatever they say are not looking at your future health. You need to understand how your body and insulin work together.
Doctors are like plumbers ~ there are good ones and bad ones. If you weren't happy with the plumber you chose, you would choose another one. People seem to feel that they aren't allowed to do that ~ to find a different doctor. If you can't talk to a man that is so much a part of your day to day life, then find a better one!! There has to be open communication about diabetes.
