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Insulin Correction Factor

In the UK we follow the 100 rule for calculating your insulin sensitivity as we measure in mmol/l, so say over 3-4 days calculate your total daily dose TDD, divide 100 by your TDD and this is your figure, however this figure is affected by stress, time of day, exercise etc so it's more of a guide.
 
As Juicyj has stated I did the same calculation to approximate my ISF by dividing 100 by my total daily dose. Then did further basal rate testing and when my basal rates where as spot on they could be I gave a small correction dose with no IOB an no food eaten in last 4 hours (last meal being lowish in fat) and devided the mmol drop by the correction dose given i.e just recently had a reading of 7.6 gave .5 units. 4 hours later was 5.7 drop of 1.9. divided this by .5 gave me a ISF of 3.8. for that particular time of day (ie morning ISF)Hope this helps
 
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Out of interest how do you take fractions of a unit? 0.9 for example. Does 0.1 of a unit really make that much difference? Is it pump related? (I haven’t got one! ). Thanks
 
Stevec189 said:
Out of interest how do you take fractions of a unit? 0.9 for example. Does 0.1 of a unit really make that much difference? Is it pump related? (I haven’t got one! ). Thanks
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Yes I'm lucky enough to be on an insulin pump due to me experiencing many hypos during the night and bad DP and also being fairly insulin sensitive. MDI and splitting my background insulin didn't work that well for me
 
Postleneo said:
As Juicyj has stated I did the same calculation to approximate my ISF by dividing 100 by my total daily dose. Then did further basal rate testing and when my basal rates where as spot on they could be I gave a small correction dose with no IOB an no food eaten in last 4 hours (last meal being lowish in fat) and devided the mmol drop by the correction dose given i.e just recently had a reading of 7.6 gave .5 units. 4 hours later was 5.7 drop of 1.9. divided this by .5 gave me a ISF of 3.8. for that particular time of day (ie morning ISF)Hope this helps
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Have you not waited too many hours (4) to get the ISF that you were looking for? would it have been better after 2 hours (or 3)? anyway, your help is very useful to me.
 
sasuzzo said:
Have you not waited too many hours (4) to get the ISF that you were looking for? would it have been better after 2 hours (or 3)? anyway, your help is very useful to me.
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You should really wait at least 4 hours following eating to check your ISF this way as if you check any earlier you will still have insulin in your system for the food you have eaten insulin normally lasts around 4hrs ish. You may find the following link about basal testing from 'Mysugar' useful :-) https://mysugr.com/basal-rate-testing/
 
[QUOTE = "Postleneo, post: 1667465, membro: 260061"] Dovresti davvero aspettare almeno 4 ore dopo aver mangiato per controllare la tua ISF in questo modo, come se ne controllassi una qualsiasi prima avresti ancora insulina nel tuo sistema per il cibo che hai l'insulina alimentare dura normalmente circa 4 ore ish. È possibile trovare il seguente link sul test di base da "Mysugar" utile :) https://mysugr.com/basal-rate-testing/ [/ QUOTE]

Perfect. TY. grazie.
 
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