My son was diagnosed about eight months ago. He was changed to NovoLog before meals about two months ago. Oddly, he ran high (300s mg/dl [16.7 to 16.3 mmol/L]) two to two and half hours after NovoLog and a meal, despite adjusting ratios between 20:1 down to 10:1. However, like clockwork, at three and a half hours after NovoLog, every time, his blood sugar dropped dramatically into the 40 to 60 mg/dl [2.2 to 3.8 mmol/L] range. It was as if he were having a delayed response to the NovoLog. This went on for three weeks until I asked for Humalog, which he then responded to as we would expect, blood sugars in mid 100s mg/dl [around 8.0 mmol/L] two hours after a meal. I had the impression that NovoLog and Humalog were very similar. Do you think we may have just gotten a bad bottle of NovoLog? Or, do you think there is some physiological reason for this reaction?

Justin Delgado is husband to Kacie Doyle-Delgado, diagnosed at age 11. After more than a decade together, he considers himself to be an expert carb counter and Dexcom inserter. He graduated with his Master of Science in Finance from the University of Utah in 2013 and has been working in commercial banking since then. He attended his first Friends for Life conference in 2015 and is looking forward to volunteering with the teens.

Kacie Doyle-Delgado, MSN, APRN, NP-C, was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes at age 11 and attended her first Friends for Life conference in 2002. Since then, she has attended several FFL and regional conferences. She earned her BSN and her MSN as a Family Nurse Practitioner at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, UT and she is currently enrolled in a DNP program. She works for Utah Physicians Care Center in a diabetes specialty clinic. Kacie lives in Salt Lake with her husband, Justin Delgado, and their dogs. She is looking forward to volunteering with the teens again.

Marissa Town, BSN, RN, CDE, graduated from the University of Cincinnati with a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and later earned her Certified Diabetes Educator credential. She has had type 1 diabetes since the age of two and has grown up with a passion for helping families living with diabetes. Marissa is currently working as a research nurse at Stanford University. She has always enjoyed working with families with diabetes at Children with Diabetes conferences, camps, and support groups. She and her husband Adam have two young children, Connor and Everly.