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Type 1: Contant low sugar

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Boyfriend_of_Diabetic

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I do not have diabetes
I just want to know my girlfriends sugar levels are very crazy, it goes from high to low and normal to low very quickly.
She eats right and everything.
Before this she fell and has a big scar on her leg.

She kept record of her sugar levels
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Looks like she needs to change her breakfast dose of insulin. has she been on the DAFNE course or simiilar? could you add to the above the amount of carbs she has eaten?
 
@Boyfriend_of_Diabetic It would also be worth her while doing a basal test to make sure her basal insulin is at the right level, looking at some of the highs.

Does she count carbs and adjust her insulin to match?

If she checks and gets her basal right, then she can look at the amount of fast acting insulin she's having for meals. Sometimes people use the same ratio for each meal eg 1 unit of insulin to 10g carbs, but for some meals they'd be better off with less or more insulin.
 
Boyfriend_of_Diabetic said:
I just want to know my girlfriends sugar levels are very crazy, it goes from high to low and normal to low very quickly.
She eats right and everything.
Before this she fell and has a big scar on her leg.

She kept record of her sugar levels
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Hello,

Is your girlfriend T1? At a glance, it would look like she is taking a fair amount of insulin for starters. When you say that she eats right, are you away of how many grams of carbohydrate she consumes on an average day? The 44u of bolus insulin administered would be roughly enough for 440g of carbohydrates. Which is quite a lot of carbs. The higher the carb intake, the tougher it is to control BG. At least that's what most of us find anyway.

She may also want to carry out some basal testing. This will help ascertain that her Lantus dose is correct.

https://mysugr.com/basal-rate-testing/

There are so many factors that can cause highs and lows. Exercise, stress, irregular meals (and times) and illness to name a few. So it's hard to really tell just from two days of BG records.

I'd start with the basal test as it is the foundation of good BG management. From there, I would then work out a correct I:C ratio and try to keep my daily carb intake the same each day.

Regards,
Grant
 
azure said:
@Boyfriend_of_Diabetic It would also be worth her while doing a basal test to make sure her basal insulin is at the right level, looking at some of the highs.

Does she count carbs and adjust her insulin to match?

If she checks and gets her basal right, then she can look at the amount of fast acting insulin she's having for meals. Sometimes people use the same ratio for each meal eg 1 unit of insulin to 10g, but for some meaks they'd be better off with less or more insulin.
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Too slow again:)
 
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