The only questions Dr. Wilson will be able to answer are the ones used in this column. Wesley W. Wilson, MD, has retired as an Internal Medicine practitioner at the Western Montana Clinic in Missoula, Montana. Dr. Wilson was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in 1956, during his second year of medical school. He remains interested and involved in diabetes education for patients and professionals. The first part of my answer is that if you are often low at mealtime, you should make some adjustment to your treatment, so as to avoid the lows.
Serious injuries can occur during hypoglycemia.
The answer you wanted is easier to give now that we have the very fast-acting insulin called Humalog. You can determine if it works by checking your blood sugar two hours after your meal. With human Regular insulins, such delay of injection very frequently leads to high sugars two hours after a meal.