Actrapid: 11 units when I get up, plus 11 more at 11.00am.
Novorapid: 6 units at 4pm.
Insulatard: 11.00pm - 1.5 unit in winter, up to 3 units in summer.
Steadily eating rye bread, from first thing until 4.00pm - around 220g per day. (Mostly with Biona Pear & Apple Spread.) This is what keeps me safe: any hypos I might have are made far more manageable on account of it.
If I eat any rye bread after 4.00pm, my blood sugar will tend go high overnight.
[My space has run out here - the story continues under 'Exercise', below.]
Exercise
I test for the final time at 11.00pm. And so long as I haven't eaten anything unwise earlier in the evening, I know my blood sugar will fall by a further 2mmol/l by midnight, and that the effect of the insulin I took earlier in the day will then be exhausted. (One half a slice of the Co-op's wholemeal bread will cover that 2mmol/l drop.) So I go to bed confident that I will wake in the morning as normal, and also that my blood sugar won't be high.
I test my blood sugar a lot: around 16 times per day, mostly using visually read strips - sc. Betachek Visual or Glucoflex-R.
If I have high blood sugar during the day, I go out for a fast march.
