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How much does fast acting insulin bring sugars down?
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<blockquote data-quote="AMBrennan" data-source="post: 254994" data-attributes="member: 37697"><p>There's 2 things here - bolus for food (typically 0.5-4u per 10g carbs - tweak until 2h post-meal is close enough to pre-meal readings) and correction (effect of 1u on its own).</p><p>The latter is apparently, for unknown reasons, estimated by the "rule of 100": 1u of fast-acting insulin will lower your BG by 100 / ( typical total basal + fast acting), and this is what the app is asking. Empirically, I need 3x the estimated dose so I wouldn't trust that rule completely.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="AMBrennan, post: 254994, member: 37697"] There's 2 things here - bolus for food (typically 0.5-4u per 10g carbs - tweak until 2h post-meal is close enough to pre-meal readings) and correction (effect of 1u on its own). The latter is apparently, for unknown reasons, estimated by the "rule of 100": 1u of fast-acting insulin will lower your BG by 100 / ( typical total basal + fast acting), and this is what the app is asking. Empirically, I need 3x the estimated dose so I wouldn't trust that rule completely. [/QUOTE]
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