Yes I do next battle is to understand how insulin works. Bolos working well Novorapid not so good and still want to carry on lowcarbin…
You can low carb if you want to but you also have the option to inject bolus to bring an errant high level down. (As a T2 not on insulin you literally have to walk it off.)
Just a comment on terminology.
Basal is the long acting insulin that keeps your levels normal when you don't eat (eg overnight). Typical examples are levemir, lantus, tresiba. It's usually taken once or twice a day.
Bolus is the fast acting insulin (eg humalog, fiasp, novorapid, though I've heard some people refer to novorapid as novosluggish
). It's used with meals and you should eventually get a ratio of so many grams of carbohydrate to 1 unit of bolus, plus another ratio that allows you to inject bolus to bring a high blood sugar down by a certain amount. These ratios can change with time (and even with time of day).
I used to get the names mixed up all the time (why oh why do they both start with b?) but now I remember it by the fact that the basal is the slow acting baseline insulin and the bolus is the other one.
Of course, in the long term, you might go onto a pump, when you start talking about basal and bolus rates as it's all one insulin (I think, I'm sure a pump user will correct me if I'm wrong) but new T1s usually get put on a basal/bolus regime first.
Anyway, good luck with it all.
