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From: charlie on 22 Oct 2005 15:07
Differences Between Humalog And Novolog Versus Regular
Using injections, Humalog, Novolog, and Regular are primarily used to
cover meals and snacks, and to lower high blood sugars. Most meals
create a rise in the blood sugar for only a short period of time,
normally 2 to 3 hours. Regular insulin, available since 1922, takes 30
minutes to start working, peaks at 3 to 4 hours after the injection,
and continues lowering blood sugars for 6 to as much as 8 hours.
Humalog, on the other hand, begins working in 10 minutes, peaks at one
to one and a half hours and is gone in about 3 and 1/2 hours. Novolog
insulin has an even faster onset of action and peaks in 40 to 75
minutes, which has surprised many when they switched from Humalog to
Novolog.

After studying the differences I don't see a great advantage of one
over the other. I do have more lows since I switched but I attribute a
lot of this to; fe, This AM I rode my bicycle to garage sales, from
0700 till 1000 and drank a coke during this
period. My bg was 69 at lunch. When you are on a gluten free diet
snacks are hard, but that's another story.
Charlie

"Yes ! I want a refill on my confusion medication."

From: David on 22 Oct 2005 18:00
charlie wrote:

> Differences Between Humalog And Novolog Versus Regular
> Using injections, Humalog, Novolog, and Regular are primarily used to
> cover meals and snacks, and to lower high blood sugars. Most meals
> create a rise in the blood sugar for only a short period of time,
> normally 2 to 3 hours. Regular insulin, available since 1922, takes 30
> minutes to start working, peaks at 3 to 4 hours after the injection,
> and continues lowering blood sugars for 6 to as much as 8 hours.
> Humalog, on the other hand, begins working in 10 minutes, peaks at one
> to one and a half hours and is gone in about 3 and 1/2 hours. Novolog
> insulin has an even faster onset of action and peaks in 40 to 75
> minutes, which has surprised many when they switched from Humalog to
> Novolog.
>
> After studying the differences I don't see a great advantage of one
> over the other. I do have more lows since I switched but I attribute a
> lot of this to; fe, This AM I rode my bicycle to garage sales, from
> 0700 till 1000 and drank a coke during this
> period. My bg was 69 at lunch. When you are on a gluten free diet
> snacks are hard, but that's another story.
> Charlie
>
> "Yes ! I want a refill on my confusion medication."
>
Nice to see someone who did their research (like I did earlier this
year) about the onset action of the two dueling rapid insulins. I can't
believe how many times I've read some dodo saying that Novolog is slower
than Humalog. They might find it so for themselves, but that's not true
in a broad sense or from the mfgr's own literature and studies on the
subject.

Dave
From: charlie on 22 Oct 2005 19:30
Dave, I thought the VA was trying to slip me a bummer so I looked this
up a long time ago and after taking NPH from 1971 to about 1998 I get
along great on Novolog and Lantus till something better comes along. I
blame most of my problems on myself not the insulin.
Charlie
The TN vols gave it their best today and still got beat by a touchdown
by Bama

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