It sure is!
Making notes, just like in school really helps! Logging your blood glucose along with your food and possibly the carbs in your meals and exercise will make it easier for you and your DN to find out the right doses and making sense of how your diabetes works.
This is right. Carb counting, testing, dosing, and logging is the thing you have to do to figure out how you manage this thing. Activity will also help. It’s not easy, but it has to be done.
Try to do- and eat the same things every day for a week. Same thing and the same amount. Alter only how you dose for it, and test before and after to see the effect. This will test how you deal with your short term insulin.
Basal testing is probably the next step for how that stuff is supposed to carry you through the day.
I’m hoping they educated you on what these insulins do, and why we need them. I’m never convinced of this. So here’s my simple explanation: insulin is an escort. It delivers food to either hungry cells OR storage. Short term- or fast acting insulin does this job for the food when you’re eating.
But the body really runs on food supplies that it’s stored in the body all day long. This is where long acting- or basal insulin comes in. As the body redistributes the food that the body has stored it still needs the long acting- or basal insulin to deliver it.
So remember- insulin is an escort. If we don’t have it the energies we eat and that enter into the blood stream and never be escorted out to where it’s needed. Without this escort we would have high blood sugar.
