I recently was forced to switch to Apidra (because my insurance wouldn't pay for Novolog anymore) and at first was more concerned about lows occurring. I've had a few lows from it, but what I'm more concerned about now is how it deals with - or rather doesn't - the highs.
Does anyone else using Apidra have issues with it not working all that well when you use it for a high blood sugar reading? I haven't changed my pump settings from the ones I used with Novolog, so I might be able to fix this problem using that, but then I'll still have issues with lows. My theory is that the Apidra works too fast to cover the entire high, leaving me still high or even higher. I never had this problem with Novolog or Humalog. I know that something is not right too because since switching over from Novolog my A1C has gone from 7.2 to 8.6, yet I haven't changed anything.
Anybody else have something similiar happen? Any ideas on how to fix this so my blood sugar isn't constantly bouncing all over the place? My doctor's trying to get a prior authorization to get me back on Novolog, but I'm not all that optimistic...