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<blockquote data-quote="Matt J" data-source="post: 938498" data-attributes="member: 188789"><p>It's both. MDI (multiple daily injections) along with carb counting means you adjust your short acting (bolus) insulin dose to suit whatever carbs are in your meals. Normally means 3 short acting injections (for 3 meals) and 1 or 2 long acting (basal) injections a day. It does however give you flexibility. I wouldn't recommend the following until you know what you are doing and have spoken to your diabetes team but it does mean you can skip meals or have more meals!, take them at different times and correct with a correction dose if you get it wrong. I use NovoRapid (bolus) and Levemir (basal) which is a fairly common combination. It sounds as if your DN was talking of MDI.</p><p></p><p>I'm probably not the best to give advice on carb counting as I'm a bit old school and started off on something similar called carbohydrate exchanges and now through experience tend to wing it with a bit of luck and judgement.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Matt J, post: 938498, member: 188789"] It's both. MDI (multiple daily injections) along with carb counting means you adjust your short acting (bolus) insulin dose to suit whatever carbs are in your meals. Normally means 3 short acting injections (for 3 meals) and 1 or 2 long acting (basal) injections a day. It does however give you flexibility. I wouldn't recommend the following until you know what you are doing and have spoken to your diabetes team but it does mean you can skip meals or have more meals!, take them at different times and correct with a correction dose if you get it wrong. I use NovoRapid (bolus) and Levemir (basal) which is a fairly common combination. It sounds as if your DN was talking of MDI. I'm probably not the best to give advice on carb counting as I'm a bit old school and started off on something similar called carbohydrate exchanges and now through experience tend to wing it with a bit of luck and judgement. [/QUOTE]
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