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Hi, Can someone please explain to me the timing of bolus and gi foods, if I'm eating bread do I bolus and eat straight after and if its low gi do I bolus and wait for 10-20 minutes. sorry for being so thick, love being on a pump after 36 years 2 injections a day, its just all new to me, Thank you

can someone tell me what I need to do, not been feeling very well last few days, bg slowly raising, tried correction doses etc but its now 24 and I'm feeling ill, just done a pen shot of 8 units but not sure if I have to eat drink etc

Can I ask a stupid question, ive been on the Medtronic 640g for 2 months now. when I go to the gym my bg always rises so today I decided to do a temp basal for 4 hours after, my problem is I didn't understand how to do it in percentages. I thought my pump would have a minus and plus at the side...

Hello Everyone, I'm new to pumping and hope you can help, my bg is high overnight, starts rising around 8pm comes down 8am, my rates are midnight-3am-0.500 units and 3am-8am is 0.600 units, my question is do I go up in 0.025 so that I change them from 0.500 to 0.525 etc, sorry for sounding so...

Hi everyone,ive been on a pump for just over a week now and everythings been ok apart from exercise. on mdi my bg always was on the lower side but since being on a pump and I swim or go gym I'm fine before and just after then start to go high ie, swim before 4.2, had 20g carbs, 40 minutes later...

Hi, I take my lantus at 9pm and take my Humalog at breakfast, lunch and tea . I was wondering if I could skip the teatime Humalog and meal as I work through tea and maybe have my Humalog when I get home at 8pm or would that be too near the lantus Ive only recently swapped from 2 injections a...

can anyone advise me please, I want an insulin pump so I'm doing 4 injections instead of 2 and doing the carb counting, I forgot my lantus injection last night so this morning my sugar was 22 so this morning I took half of my 12 unit dose, can anyone tell me how many units lantus would be right...

can anyone help,,, been diabetic for 32 years but lately every so often my blood sugar goes really high and i cant bring it down, tried eating no carbs, extra injections of insulin but nothing works,, i do loads of excersise and on the odd occasion its normal and i have a light meal its up again