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2 hours after eating >.<

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Type1Lad

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should my levels be back to where they were before eating or a little bit higher, it seems everything im eating is spiking me at the moment :'(

check sugar 7.
carb count & then eat food
2 hours later 13.1
3 hours later 11.1

i don't know if my ratio's need adjusting again or im starting to build some sort of resitance. :'(
 
And where does the BG settle at when the bolus runs out? Are you pre-bolussing as that on its own can help reduce your spike, the other concern is that your spike is probably even higher at 1 hour.
 
steve_p6 said:
And where does the BG settle at when the bolus runs out? Are you pre-bolussing as that on its own can help reduce your spike, the other concern is that your spike is probably even higher at 1 hour.
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when the bolus runs out it usally is 6-8
i do tend to do it just be4 i eat =.=
 
So essentially your bolus has matched the food if you end back where you start. If you are worried about spiking then I would (a) inject earlier so insulin is active when you eat (b) maybe eat less carbs (or eat them over longer period)(c) try more fatty food to slow absorption
 
steve_p6 said:
So essentially your bolus has matched the food if you end back where you start. If you are worried about spiking then I would (a) inject earlier so insulin is active when you eat (b) maybe eat less carbs (or eat them over longer period)(c) try more fatty food to slow absorption
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my meal was only like 40 carbs, low carbing in this household would suck to bad i thought fatty food spikes later on? :o
 
40g is not that many carbs. Fat makes BG take longer to rise. For me 40g pure carbs would spike me by 12mmol, but Novo would take 3-4 hours, from injection, to bring me down by 12mmol.

If you imagine for example that the fat causes the food BG rise to take place over two hours and you timed the insulin so that it's two most active hours coincided with the rise due to the food then it woud largely balance out and hopefully no big spikes.
 
steve_p6 said:
40g is not that many carbs. Fat makes BG take longer to rise. For me 40g pure carbs would spike me by 12mmol, but Novo would take 3-4 hours, from injection, to bring me down by 12mmol.

If you imagine for example that the fat causes the food BG rise to take place over two hours and you timed the insulin so that it's two most active hours coincided with the rise due to the food then it woud largely balance out and hopefully no big spikes.
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hmm i'm just going to upload to diasend and see if its a regular thing or just today =.=
 
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