How many seconds PER UNIT of insulin do you count for a Humalog pen injection?
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on average about 5 to 6 sec per 10 units at least that is what i have found to work the best. otherwise the best thing to do is just trial and error!
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Most Dr. say the avarage should run between 80 to 180 if you are below 80 you get what my family calls weak trembles. (Eat a small spoon of sugar to get it up quick then eat a meal, sandwhich, fruit and veg) If you get above 180 you are too high best thing to do then is to drink lots of water, and take your insulin which your Dr. should have set your amounts at and eat a small orange or something so you don't drop to far. Diabietes is very tricky. My oldest has had it from the time she was 10, she is 22 now. My daughter wants me to add when you are high drink 8 oz glasses of water every 30 min. It also depends on your Dr as what your blood sugars are. Type 1 and Type 2 carry different sugar levels.
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Inhaled insulin has many long term effects, namely lung damage.\n\nInsulin shot have no long term effects, you just need to make sure you rotate where you are injecting so you don't get a fat build up.  \n\nIf you have type 1 diabetes, there is no alternative to some form of insulin.  If you have type 2, you may be able to try diet and exercise (no side effects) first, or pills, but pills can cause upset stomach and liver damage.\n\nComment on post below:  No such thing as a pump you don't need to check your bs with.  You always need to check your bs.  The new minimed has a continuous meter built in, but that still needs to be calibrated with finger sticks, and it does not decide and give insulin doses automatically.  It's not approved in the US anyways.
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i think it was called 6 second abs...due to the 6 seconds each crunch was supposed to take
861021
It depends on what food it is.  When I go hypo (low blood sugar) I take dextrose tablets.  As soon as they go in my mouth my blood sugar starts going up.  I have to follow this up with more long acting carbs so that I do not have a rebound low.  A meal would give a maximum blood sugar count at 2 hours (NOT1!) but would probably start to raise the blood sugar after 10 mins or so...;
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ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS   CHECK BLOOD GLUCOSE 30 MIN'S B/4 MEALS.  TAKE THE MEDICATION ACCORDING TO THE DOCTORS INSTRUCTIONS.  IN MY CASE I TAKE 1 SHOT B/4 EACH MEAL AND AT BEDTIME.   KEEP IT UNDER CONTROL OR IT WILL CONTROL YOU.  GOOD LUCK
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target level is below 180 but ideally below 140 (but this will carry a higher risk of hyoglycemia).\nnever make it below 80 or even 100 as hypoglycemia will be a real danger.
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Aprox 5lbs per minute give or take 5lbs
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I highly recommend an Insulin Pump.  I have been an insulin dependent diabetic for 21 years now.  I have worn a pump for around 10 of those years.  I got my pump from MedTronic MiniMed.  I currently have the Paradigm 511 pump. I would put up a major fight before I would give up pump therapy.  I definitely would not change my choice.  At first it felt akward wearing it on my side-now if for some reason I take it off or forget to put it back on I feel akward.  If anyone ever notices they think its a beeper.  It's very compact and versatile.  My life is much better- I was taking about 4 shots a day before-which I didn't mind the actual shot-it was the rollercoaster up and down;having to get up from the table becaused I forgot my shot or maybe even forgot if I had taken my shot.  The pump has the history of when you took extra insulin how much you took and its right with me;I dont have to leave the table or run to the bathroom in public to take a shot(some people don't understand!!)You don't have to get up early on the weekends just to eat and take your shot-your diet is much more rewarding.  You don't have to eat at the same time everyday.  And you only change the site of delivery about once every 3 days.  The pump provides so much freedom and flexibility as what I had been accustomed to.  It is worth ever penny.  I guess I wrote too much but I would love to tell you more.  GO FOR THE PUMP NOW!!!!
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Try this online IV infusion time online calculator, not sure if it is what you are after but it looks like it is in the right direction\n\nhttp://www.manuelsweb.com/basic_time.htm
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It depends a lot on what type of insulin you use.  If you are taking R and N, that costs about $60 for a month supply, plus $30 for syringes for about $90 a month.  If you use pens instead of syringes, those cost even more.  For Huamlog and Lantus, which aren't availible in generics, the cost is closer to $200 a month plus syringes.  It also depends on how much you take.  Many people get by with one bottle of each type of insulin a month, while some need two bottles or even three.  Insurance coverage also changes how much it costs.\n\nPumping is definitely more expensive than shots though.  Pumping costs about $10 per day, if the infusion set and reservoir are changed every three days as they should be.  And you still need to buy insulin, and have back up syringes availible in case the pump fails.  The initial cost of a pump is about $7,000.
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It's actually plenty of time. Count with the clock for like three minutes. Yipe! it's longer than you think. When you're in pain, 60 seconds is an eternity. It's plenty of time. Unless you're a bomb technician :0)
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Your reading should not exceed 100 two hours after eating. If you are diabetic than a good controlled reading is more like 120. Anything over 150 causes damage to the eyes and other organs. If your reading is over 110 everytime you test see a doctor immed. Remember test at least two hours after eating (or before you eat again) to get a good controlled reading. If you are having issues with your sugar have your doctor check it out. If you are diagnosed as diabetic ask to take classes. These will teach you the how to's about the disorder like eating (what to and not to).
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they have that hemoglobin test (every three months for me) requested by the physician, that is the accurate results for testing the glucose in the body.\n\nbut any test relates to diabetics, the blood is required no matter what. it will be less pain depends on the lancing device and lancets to prick the skin. if the gluco meter required small amount of blood, you need to adjust the lancing device accordingly. some people have a thin skin layer so you need to to use the lower number, but if it is thick layer, it need to be adjusted to the higher number. that is where the pain occurs..\n\nthere are multiple brand, precision extra by medisense, freestyle by therma-sense, those are the two we have in the house. my mom carry the one touch ultra..
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You'll get various opinions from different individuals, frankly...  You might check the American Diabetes Association for their guidelines--they are what most of us try to run by.\n\nOn the whole, ideally your fasting sugar should be 110 or less, and I like to see people in the 80-100 range most of the time.  I'm willing to settle for anything less than 125, though.  As for the postprandial sugars, I focus on the 2-hours-after-eating (or 2 hour postprandial) sugars.  Prefer to see them below 140 mg/dl; I'll tolerate them less than 160.\n\nIncreasingly, however, I tend to focus on the Hemoglobin A1c value.  That's a measure of the proportion (expressed as a percentage) of the hemoglobin that is tagged with a glucose molecule at a particular site (the 1c site on Hemoglobin A.  DUH!)  Dr. RIchard Guthrie, a decade or two ago, showed that the Hemoglobin A1c correlated very much better with the rapidity of the diabetic damage being caused than anything reasonable you could do with individual sugar readings, or with aggregate calculations of the readings over a couple of months time.\n\nDO NOT take this to indicate that the fasting and postprandial sugars are not of use; they certainly are, but they are of greatest use in recognizing the presence of complicating illnesses (on the whole, you can look at the sugars of a diabetic and use them to get a handle on the presence of an infectious process just like you can use the body temperature), and the presence of patterns in the sugars to guide in the alteration of long vs. short acting insulins to control the sugar.\n\nOK, so I'm longwinded.  I knew that.  Hope this gives you some useful insight!
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Glucagon...that's why they sell glucagon pens you can be injected with in cases of extreme hypoglycemia.
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Don't worry... one of the things that will happen when you get the insulin pump is a couple of hours of teaching... the nurses will teach you all about your insulin pump... the ins and outs... how to use it... all that stuff... that is one the nurses main jobs... teaching patients on new procedures... From what I have see, they are great... I am a nurse... so be at ease... it will all be great and you will really like your new insulin pump.  Good Luck