If coming from Novolog to Apidra: Did your basals increase? decrease? Approximately by what percentage? ICRs, did they stay the same? increase? decrease? Approximately by what percentage? Corrrection Factor: Same? increase? decrease? Approximately by what percentage?
2 months into it they were essentially the same... BUT the first weeks we made adjustments both up and down, maybe he just went through a growth spurt ect... but the first few weeks it seemed that it took time to adjust to the new insulin.
Basals up about 30%, the other stuff stayed about the same. Here's the thing; with basals I can't eliminate the possibility that there was a growth spurt at the same time we switched to Apidra, and his basals were just due to change anyway. What I have found with Apidra is that basal shortages seem to cause higher BGs than what we saw with Novolog. I think Apidra is maybe a little unforgiving when the basals are off.
My son went on the pump and Apidra at about the same time. We tried Humalog for about a week at the beginning and then for three weeks 4 months later. He uses a lot less insulin with Apidra than with Humalog -- 50% less all the way around.
We made the switch one month ago. I have been tweaking like crazy. Here is where we are now. Our basals went from 45% of TDD on Novolog to 30-35% of TDD on Apidra. It is currently just about the same. 1:9 for the first meal of the day, 1:20 for everything else. 1:22 for after 10 pm. Decreased across the board-- in the morning from 140 to 100 and in the afternoon from 160 to 140.
