Diabetes Recipes: Menu’s, Meal’s, and lifestyle advice for diabetics

Hi all, I don’t want to tell you what to do with your medication, and I know this is primarily a recipe site but I would also like to talk a bit about the diabetic medication.  I used to take Humalog and Humulin N.

I would wake up in the morning and take 4 units of Humalog and 20 units of Humulin N, I would repeat this at supper.  I would also take Humalog to  readjust everonce in a while (e.g. after supper,at night).

This worked, but it had problems.  Mainly the Humalin N hit all at once, witch made me eat more which made me fatter, and which made my insulin management a little harder.  It also made my morning fasting glucose a little higher.

So my doctor said that I should go on Levemir, its a long acting insulin, should last for almost 24 hours, also it has less of a peak.  I was resistant to my doctors advice, in fact I delayed the switch for more than a year while my sugars got worse.

But wow when I tried Levemir did I notice a difference.  My morning glucose is MUCH better, and I have less unexplained hungers.

Anyways, I hope this helps someone out there.  My hemoglobin A1C ’s are better, and I do a little less management which is always nice.

As always I am telling you my own personal experience, your mileage may vary.  Talk to your Doctor, I am not a professional and this is not advice, just my experience.

If you have comments about Levemir or your diabetic management in general, please reply.