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My husband is diabetic and sometimes threatens to overdose on his Insulin. I have read the warning signs but how long before these begin to take affect, and how long before a potential coma?
Hubby needs therapy.
You should not have to worry about this every day.
Therapy can help you too.
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Your doctor or diabetes educator may ask you to mix a short-acting or clear insulin
with an intermediate or long acting cloudy insulin in the same syringe so that both can be given at the same time.
* The only insulin that cannot be mixed is insulin glargine.
* In this example, the doctor has asked you to mix 10 units of regular, clear, insulin with 15 units of NPH cloudy insulin, to a total combined dose of 25 units.
* Always, draw “clear before cloudy” insulin into the syringe. This is to prevent cloudy insulin from entering the clear insulin bottle.
* Always do this procedure in the correct order, as shown in the following sequence.
Roll the bottle of the cloudy insulin between your hands to mix it.
Clean both bottle tops with an alcohol wipe.
Pull back the plunger of the syringe to the dose of the long-acting (cloudy) insulin in this example 15 units. You now have 15 units of air in the syringe.
Check the insulin bottle to ensure you have the correct cloudy type of insulin.
With the insulin bottle held firmly on a counter or tabletop, insert the needle through the rubber cap into the bottle.
Push the plunger down so that the air goes from the syringe into the bottle. Remove the needle and syringe. This primes the bottle for when you withdraw the Insulin later.
Pull back the plunger of the syringe to the dose of the shorter acting clear insulin in this example 10 units. You now have 10 units of air in the syringe.
Check the insulin bottle to ensure you have the correct clear type of insulin.
With the insulin bottle held firmly on a counter or tabletop, insert the needle through the rubber cap into the bottle.
Push the plunger down so that the air goes from the syringe into the bottle.
Turn the bottle upside down so that the air in it goes to the top.
With the tip of the needle kept in the liquid, withdraw the dose of clear insulin, in this example, 10 units.
Remove the needle and syringe.
Go back to the longer-acting, cloudy insulin bottle.
Turn it upside down. Insert the needle into the liquid and slowly pull back the plunger to measure your total dose, in this example, 25 units. You are now ready to give your injection.
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Your doctor or diabetes educator may ask you to mix a short-acting or clear insulin
with an intermediate or long acting cloudy insulin in the same syringe so that both can be given at the same time.
* The only insulin that cannot be mixed is insulin glargine.
* In this example, the doctor has asked you to mix 10 units of regular, clear, insulin with 15 units of NPH cloudy insulin, to a total combined dose of 25 units.
* Always, draw “clear before cloudy” insulin into the syringe. This is to prevent cloudy insulin from entering the clear insulin bottle.
* Always do this procedure in the correct order, as shown in the following sequence.
Roll the bottle of the cloudy Insulin between your hands to mix it.
Clean both bottle tops with an alcohol wipe.
Pull back the plunger of the syringe to the dose of the long-acting (cloudy) insulin in this example 15 units. You now have 15 units of air in the syringe.
Check the insulin bottle to ensure you have the correct cloudy type of insulin.
With the insulin bottle held firmly on a counter or tabletop, insert the needle through the rubber cap into the bottle.
Push the plunger down so that the air goes from the syringe into the bottle. Remove the needle and syringe. This primes the bottle for when you withdraw the insulin later.
Pull back the plunger of the syringe to the dose of the shorter acting clear insulin in this example 10 units. You now have 10 units of air in the syringe.
Check the insulin bottle to ensure you have the correct clear type of insulin.
With the insulin bottle held firmly on a counter or tabletop, insert the needle through the rubber cap into the bottle.
Push the plunger down so that the air goes from the syringe into the bottle.
Turn the bottle upside down so that the air in it goes to the top.
With the tip of the needle kept in the liquid, withdraw the dose of clear insulin, in this example, 10 units.
Remove the needle and syringe.
Go back to the longer-acting, cloudy insulin bottle.
Turn it upside down. Insert the needle into the liquid and slowly pull back the plunger to measure your total dose, in this example, 25 units. You are now ready to give your injection.
Duration : 0:4:5
I have a friend who has started injecting Rx insulin – she claims that it causes her to gain weight. But she has not been able to describe to me how the medication works.
When she is going to eat, she checks her blood sugar for her insulin dosage…. If she is in need of Insulin, does she have a healthy reason to eat? Could she only eat when her blood sugar level dropped to a normal range? Wouldn’t that be healthier? And if there are circumstances when she eats with high blood sugar & insulin, isn’t that a time to eat very sparingly?
It seems to me that the insulin injection converts the blood sugar to fat storage, so the when she eats more, the blood sugar level won’t be dangerous for her health. But, doesn’t it mean that she already ate more than she needs – that’s why her blood sugar is high? Is there a correlation between insulin injecting and weight/fat gain?
Correction- insulin does not remove glucose from the urine. It removes it from the bloodstream, and redirects it to glycogen, to be stored in the tissues. It can also be stored as fat. IF her blood sugar is too high, she is eating the wrong things. She needs to watch her diet, and have a low carb profile. IF she eats low-carb, then her blood sugar will not spike like that, and the insulin will have nothing to act upon in a negative fashion.
Her blood sugar is high to begin with because of a lack of natural insulin in her body, which then needs to be supplemented by injected insulin. The job of insulin is to remove excess glucose from the bloodstream. Excess sugar in the blood is like having a thick syrup circulating around. This is bad for the body, and causes the blood pressure to go up, which can cause strokes and heart attacks. When insulin acts in a normal body, it brings the sugar level back down to normal after a meal.
She does not need to eat more. This will really make her fat. She needs to eat low carb more frequently. This will keep her blood sugar more normal.
The higher the blood sugar, the more insulin is needed, and the more the glucose will be stored as fat or glycogen.
She should never take insulin if her blood sugar level is normal or low, because insulin will still act in the same way, and drop her level to below normal. If it does go too low, she could go into a diabetic coma.
It all has to do with keeping the sugar level in balance – both with diet and with the insulin.
Does that make sense yet?
I have a friend who has started injecting Rx insulin – she claims that it causes her to gain weight. But she has not been able to describe to me how the medication works.
When she is going to eat, she checks her blood sugar for her insulin dosage…. If she is in need of insulin, does she have a healthy reason to eat? Could she only eat when her blood sugar level dropped to a normal range? Wouldn’t that be healthier? And if there are circumstances when she eats with high blood sugar & insulin, isn’t that a time to eat very sparingly?
It seems to me that the insulin injection converts the blood sugar to fat storage, so the when she eats more, the blood sugar level won’t be dangerous for her health. But, doesn’t it mean that she already ate more than she needs – that’s why her blood sugar is high? Is there a correlation between insulin injecting and weight/fat gain?
Correction- insulin does not remove glucose from the urine. It removes it from the bloodstream, and redirects it to glycogen, to be stored in the tissues. It can also be stored as fat. IF her blood sugar is too high, she is eating the wrong things. She needs to watch her diet, and have a low carb profile. IF she eats low-carb, then her blood sugar will not spike like that, and the insulin will have nothing to act upon in a negative fashion.
Her blood sugar is high to begin with because of a lack of natural insulin in her body, which then needs to be supplemented by injected insulin. The job of insulin is to remove excess glucose from the bloodstream. Excess sugar in the blood is like having a thick syrup circulating around. This is bad for the body, and causes the blood pressure to go up, which can cause strokes and heart attacks. When insulin acts in a normal body, it brings the sugar level back down to normal after a meal.
She does not need to eat more. This will really make her fat. She needs to eat low carb more frequently. This will keep her blood sugar more normal.
The higher the blood sugar, the more Insulin is needed, and the more the glucose will be stored as fat or glycogen.
She should never take insulin if her blood sugar level is normal or low, because insulin will still act in the same way, and drop her level to below normal. If it does go too low, she could go into a diabetic coma.
It all has to do with keeping the sugar level in balance – both with diet and with the insulin.
Does that make sense yet?
This is not meant to be a substitute for seeing your doctor, just a view into what I do daily.
Duration : 0:7:36
This is not meant to be a substitute for seeing your doctor, just a view into what I do daily.
Duration : 0:7:36
Demonstration of If you are injecting some Insulin, doesn’t that mean that you can just eat anything as long as you take enough insulin to make the food go away? Because I know when people take pills the food still puts sugar in them, but if you put the insulin in your body, why do you have to eat only a certain diet? I’m very confused about this?
You have to match the amount of insulin going in to the amount of food going in. If you eat more and take more insulin you will feed up your cells and store up all that extra food as fat … in effect, just how a non-diabetic person responds to lots of food
It’s OK to have the occasional munchy attack and match it with insulin but, for me, eating high sugar foods then trying to equal it with extra insulin can make for really erratic sugar levels …both high and low
Diabetes can increase a persons risk of heart disease, stroke, vascular and nerve problems so if you start adding other risk factors like being overweight, drinking excessively or smoking, your chances of developing one of the aforementioned nasties is increased
Oh dear …I’ve depressed myself …I’ll have to go and eat some cake …with icing (c;
If you are injecting some insulin, doesn’t that mean that you can just eat anything as long as you take enough insulin to make the food go away? Because I know when people take pills the food still puts sugar in them, but if you put the insulin in your body, why do you have to eat only a certain diet? I’m very confused about this?
You have to match the amount of insulin going in to the amount of food going in. If you eat more and take more Insulin you will feed up your cells and store up all that extra food as fat … in effect, just how a non-diabetic person responds to lots of food
It’s OK to have the occasional munchy attack and match it with insulin but, for me, eating high sugar foods then trying to equal it with extra insulin can make for really erratic sugar levels …both high and low
Diabetes can increase a persons risk of heart disease, stroke, vascular and nerve problems so if you start adding other risk factors like being overweight, drinking excessively or smoking, your chances of developing one of the aforementioned nasties is increased
Oh dear …I’ve depressed myself …I’ll have to go and eat some cake …with icing (c;
