azure
Expert
- Messages
- 9,780
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Pump
Always be careful with your basal increases and corrections, but just to give you an idea my correction dose basically doubles when I have this problem, and, even then, my BS is higher than normal. Sometimes I have to do a second smaller correction to nudge it down. It's a question of patience and very careful monitoring throughout the day, I find.
As a note, when I first had this problem, I missed meals or had very low carb meals as I thought that might help, but in my case it didn't. In fact, if my BS was say, 10, I found eating my normal moderate carb meal with an appropriate bolus meant my BS after ws lower than having a no carb or low carb meal. I don't usually like to eat carbs when my BS is out of range, but when I have one of these high BS episodes I find this approach is best.
As a note, when I first had this problem, I missed meals or had very low carb meals as I thought that might help, but in my case it didn't. In fact, if my BS was say, 10, I found eating my normal moderate carb meal with an appropriate bolus meant my BS after ws lower than having a no carb or low carb meal. I don't usually like to eat carbs when my BS is out of range, but when I have one of these high BS episodes I find this approach is best.