It’s not something I would normally notice, but it’s something that I’ve noticed since I’m not eating except for when I go low. At which point, I’m not bolusing so I therefore go high. And then I bolus when I see the high and I drop the first 2 hours, I’m steady from hour 2 into hour 3 and by hour 4, I’m low. Every. Single. Time.
Novolog has a tail for me. A tail with a spiky end on it, it’s got extra power, and I go from happy steady, stable looking numbers, to low. BAM! just like that. And I shouldn’t. It’s like an ankylosaurus all cute lookin until you see his tail. Wait, his tail is like a mace, but without the spikes…
Stegosaurus, he’s all cute but with spikes on the end of his tail. Yes, that’s what novolog is, a stegosaurus, you think it’s all not so dangerous because he’s a veggietarian but you get too close and he whacks you with his spiky tail. The last hour of novolog running in my system, that’s the spiky tail.
I’ll be walking along happily by the creek, listening to the water gently run down stream. Enjoying the greenness of the plants. The smooth round river rocks under my feet. AND THEN BAM! I get whacked by a stegosaurus that I (unbeknownced to me) wandered to close to, that sends me through the air, and next thing I know, I’m falling off the edge of a waterfall and when I try to grab something to stop myself, there’s nothing there and then I’m beneath the surface of the water at the bottom of the waterfall fighting to swim back up.
That there is the image of what my insulin does to me in the last hour of it running in my system. If it were doing what it should be doing (or what I think it should be doing, or what a real pancreas does *sigh*), I’d still be walking along happily by the creek. There’d be no stegosaurus with a dangerous tail snacking on the lush green foliage to whack me over the waterfall.
There is going to be a conversation about this nasty tail that novolog has at my next endo appointment (i.e. tomorrow) I find this unacceptable. It makes me wonder how many of the lows I experience from day to day and the seizures from the past are results of this stupid tail.
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Yep, that nasty tail.
I use Humalog, but I think that all of them have some sort of a tail to them. It get’s me especially when I start stacking boluses. Then all the tails add up to be like a big basal rate!