{"id":95907,"date":"2009-12-23T09:02:55","date_gmt":"2009-12-23T14:02:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/diabetes\/46921-drastic-increase-insulin-needs.html"},"modified":"2009-12-23T09:02:55","modified_gmt":"2009-12-23T14:02:55","slug":"drastic-increase-in-insulin-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/95907","title":{"rendered":"Drastic increase in Insulin needs????"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Why, over the course of a month, would my insulin needs have dramatically increased?  <\/p>\n<p>For the last 3 years + I have been able to live on about 20-25 units of Novorapid per day, covering both my basal and bolus needs.  Now, all of a sudden, I&#8217;m up to 35-40 units per day.  My ratios used to be about 1 unit for 20\/25 carbs.  Now I&#8217;m at 1 unit for about 5 to 10 carbs.  For me that is an unusually high volume.  It&#8217;s scary because in the past, taking 6 units of insulin for a meal would most certainly mean having a low.  I was nervous at anything over 4 units and would dual wave anything higher.  Now, 6 units is seemingly nothing.  Even 8-10 units per meal, without and dual or square waving, is fine.  But I don&#8217;t get what would have happened in my body over such a short period of time.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Why, over the course of a month, would my insulin needs have dramatically increased? For the last 3 years + I have been able to live on about 20-25 units of Novorapid per day, covering both my basal and bolus needs. Now, all of a sudden, I&#8217;m up to 35-40 units per day. My ratios [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":218,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95907","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95907","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/218"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95907\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}