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<blockquote data-quote="urbanracer" data-source="post: 2175771" data-attributes="member: 140811"><p>Welcome Chad, nice to meet a new antipodean. I'm guessing your partner is the lady who'd been asking us questions for the past week or so, I'm glad she's convinced you to come on board.</p><p></p><p>Research shows that participation in forums like this one strongly influences outcomes.</p><p></p><p>Your basal can usually cope with a small amount of carbs. For me it's around 7g which is a small biscuit. If your going back to basics then it might be a good idea to do 'basal testing'. Get this right and you'll likely find bolusing for meals is easier to do.</p><p></p><p>Basal testing basically involves fasting for a few hours after taking the shot and testing to see if your levels stay flat, and in the right zone during the fasting period. Basal is compensating for the continuous trickle of glucose that your liver is giving out to provide energy for your heart to pump and your brain to function etc.</p><p></p><p>For bolusing you need to work out what your insulin to carb ratio is. And then as you've highlighted above you need some idea how many carbs are in your meal. For total success you need to know that different carbs behave differently in the body but let's not over complicate things now.</p><p></p><p>I'm going to tag in few colleagues who will be glad to help you when they are around. [USER=101136]@Jaylee[/USER] [USER=372207]@Antje77[/USER] [USER=206249]@Diakat[/USER] [USER=53162]@Juicyj[/USER] [USER=475037]@Marie 2[/USER] [USER=47983]@therower[/USER] </p><p></p><p>There's a link somewhere for basal testing advice so I will try to find it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="urbanracer, post: 2175771, member: 140811"] Welcome Chad, nice to meet a new antipodean. I'm guessing your partner is the lady who'd been asking us questions for the past week or so, I'm glad she's convinced you to come on board. Research shows that participation in forums like this one strongly influences outcomes. Your basal can usually cope with a small amount of carbs. For me it's around 7g which is a small biscuit. If your going back to basics then it might be a good idea to do 'basal testing'. Get this right and you'll likely find bolusing for meals is easier to do. Basal testing basically involves fasting for a few hours after taking the shot and testing to see if your levels stay flat, and in the right zone during the fasting period. Basal is compensating for the continuous trickle of glucose that your liver is giving out to provide energy for your heart to pump and your brain to function etc. For bolusing you need to work out what your insulin to carb ratio is. And then as you've highlighted above you need some idea how many carbs are in your meal. For total success you need to know that different carbs behave differently in the body but let's not over complicate things now. I'm going to tag in few colleagues who will be glad to help you when they are around. [USER=101136]@Jaylee[/USER] [USER=372207]@Antje77[/USER] [USER=206249]@Diakat[/USER] [USER=53162]@Juicyj[/USER] [USER=475037]@Marie 2[/USER] [USER=47983]@therower[/USER] There's a link somewhere for basal testing advice so I will try to find it. [/QUOTE]
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