Hi,
Question about correctives without food..
At my DAFNE course it was made clear if your bedtime reading was out of target it was a good idea to have a few correctives of QA insulin alongside your BI (if thats when you take it)
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Say my BG was 8.9... Ideally i want this between 5.5-7 (my target) DAFNE says between 6.5-8 (bedtime targets)
One unit of insulin brings you down 2-3 mmols. which i find is accurate with myself.
now.. i'd like to bring this down to my target.. so i shoul take one unit of insulin to bring my level down to (let's say an inbetween of 2.5) so i would be 6.4 Which personally i am happy with.
So my question is.... Is it viable to take just one unit of insulin by itself? Or will it not work as it's only one unit?
It may be easier not to take this unit as one unit for an extra injection seems alot, but to me this is high and i wouldnt like to go all night and wake up with above target reading...
hmmmm...
thanks
Question about correctives without food..
At my DAFNE course it was made clear if your bedtime reading was out of target it was a good idea to have a few correctives of QA insulin alongside your BI (if thats when you take it)
..............
Say my BG was 8.9... Ideally i want this between 5.5-7 (my target) DAFNE says between 6.5-8 (bedtime targets)
One unit of insulin brings you down 2-3 mmols. which i find is accurate with myself.
now.. i'd like to bring this down to my target.. so i shoul take one unit of insulin to bring my level down to (let's say an inbetween of 2.5) so i would be 6.4 Which personally i am happy with.
So my question is.... Is it viable to take just one unit of insulin by itself? Or will it not work as it's only one unit?
It may be easier not to take this unit as one unit for an extra injection seems alot, but to me this is high and i wouldnt like to go all night and wake up with above target reading...
hmmmm...
thanks