Thread: Insulin Novolin R pre workout

I'm gonna assume this is your first 'run' with insulin? How long have you been going at it so far? With the hypo feeling, if you're starting to get dizzy midway in the gym or on the verge of blacking out and etc, don't bother calculating how many carbs to take in and so on at that point in time. Save your life first. As Godzilla said, you'd want to start eating quick carbs - simple sugars or you could get some glucose tabs from a pharmacy as those work faster. If this happens on a regular basis, you'd be able to start gauging how much carbs you take in to stop the hypo and slowly taper down from there. It's always better to overshoot your carbs when going hypo because you can potentially die.

If you've not had any experience with insulin, you'd ideally want someone to guide you - both plan out a proper insulin protocol for you (dosage, time between meals, hypo precautions, etc) and walk you through execution. Insulin is a very powerful hormone and can put on serious muscle on you if used right, but the keywords here being 'used right' so you'd want proper guidance.

Yes first run and third day, I understand to over shoot on carbs if feeling hypo, I didn’t start feeling hypo until after post workout cardio just light treadmill incline. That was my only hypo moment which was like 2 post injection of the Novolin R, so even know the typical timing somebody should consume carbs is ideally 30 to 45 min after injection and even know I consumed the estimated amount of carbs around that time I ended up having a hypo moment 2 hours after. So should I still have the carbs around the 30 to 45 min post injection time and more carbs when starting to feel hypo even long after injection? Yes I’m new to the insulin and know some of the dangers that’s why after inject I’m on high alert on how I’m feeling but I know when I’m starting to have a hypo moment, it’s as if you haven’t ate at all and are starting to get the shakes breathing heavily and are to nausea to eat even know you need to.

Also been noticing increased thirst and urination