Hi everyone,
I'm a few months into my T1 diagnosis now and have just finished a FEFI course (flexible eating, flexible insulin). It was great and I'm feeling really good as adjusting my fast acting doses to what I eat and have a half unit pen. I've had hardly any hypos since the start of the course and I'm generally running in the high 5s/low 6s. Before the course I was running lower (4s/5s) but with hypos almost every day.
I'm now looking more closely at what I eat though and I'm wondering what everyone would consider a spike in their BG to be. For example, tonight I had soup and sandwich (seeded bread) plus fruit - total about 45 carbs - pre meal BG was 5.7, 1 hour later it's 8.7. If after another hour, it's back in the 5s/6s, is that ok or should I be looking to keep rise lower even after 1 hour? Or should I inject 15-20 minutes before meal to prevent this rise? Any thoughts/views would be great. Thanks.
I'm a few months into my T1 diagnosis now and have just finished a FEFI course (flexible eating, flexible insulin). It was great and I'm feeling really good as adjusting my fast acting doses to what I eat and have a half unit pen. I've had hardly any hypos since the start of the course and I'm generally running in the high 5s/low 6s. Before the course I was running lower (4s/5s) but with hypos almost every day.
I'm now looking more closely at what I eat though and I'm wondering what everyone would consider a spike in their BG to be. For example, tonight I had soup and sandwich (seeded bread) plus fruit - total about 45 carbs - pre meal BG was 5.7, 1 hour later it's 8.7. If after another hour, it's back in the 5s/6s, is that ok or should I be looking to keep rise lower even after 1 hour? Or should I inject 15-20 minutes before meal to prevent this rise? Any thoughts/views would be great. Thanks.