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<blockquote data-quote="Diamattic" data-source="post: 1280608" data-attributes="member: 138639"><p>There is very little to be done for post meal spikes sadly. All you can do is eat less carbs in each meal, and inject earlier before eating (somewhere between 10-30 minutes-ish) both of those option should help lower spikes. With less carbs helping the most.</p><p></p><p>If you eat a sandwich (so probably like 35g carbs) and you start at 5.5, a rise of 8-10 should be the high point at about 1 hour post meal, at 2 hours your goal should be below 7.8, and falling back down, and back to 5.5 at 4 hours post.</p><p></p><p>Obviously if you start at 6.5, or 7.5 you will spike up over 10, and if you did not bolus a correction you should fall back to that starting number in 4 hours.</p><p></p><p>Without a change in your diet, you will see post meals spikes. Ideally never over 8, but realistically I like to stay below 10, and then start dropping back.. because I am not perfect lol</p><p></p><p>When i eat and my BS is over 6, i try to wait extra long before eating (like 30 minutes + if its higher) so that the insulin can start working and stop me from getting into the 10+ range post meal.</p><p></p><p>You have to mess around with injection timeing and carb counting, but its normal to spike... the more carbs you eat, and sooner you eat them after injecting the higher the spike will be (also remember that high BS creates insulin resistance so if you spike to like 16 your dose may not work as well to bring you do and you may need to inject again after 3/4 hours.. which is another reason to stay low)</p><p></p><p>.....this post was too long -_-.. sorry lol</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>EDIT - also a jump from 8 to 12 is only 4, so if you started your meal at 4, youd only be at 8 post meal... which is actually pretty good. Soo i wouldn't worry to much, but just work on getting that pre meal number a bit lower.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Diamattic, post: 1280608, member: 138639"] There is very little to be done for post meal spikes sadly. All you can do is eat less carbs in each meal, and inject earlier before eating (somewhere between 10-30 minutes-ish) both of those option should help lower spikes. With less carbs helping the most. If you eat a sandwich (so probably like 35g carbs) and you start at 5.5, a rise of 8-10 should be the high point at about 1 hour post meal, at 2 hours your goal should be below 7.8, and falling back down, and back to 5.5 at 4 hours post. Obviously if you start at 6.5, or 7.5 you will spike up over 10, and if you did not bolus a correction you should fall back to that starting number in 4 hours. Without a change in your diet, you will see post meals spikes. Ideally never over 8, but realistically I like to stay below 10, and then start dropping back.. because I am not perfect lol When i eat and my BS is over 6, i try to wait extra long before eating (like 30 minutes + if its higher) so that the insulin can start working and stop me from getting into the 10+ range post meal. You have to mess around with injection timeing and carb counting, but its normal to spike... the more carbs you eat, and sooner you eat them after injecting the higher the spike will be (also remember that high BS creates insulin resistance so if you spike to like 16 your dose may not work as well to bring you do and you may need to inject again after 3/4 hours.. which is another reason to stay low) .....this post was too long -_-.. sorry lol EDIT - also a jump from 8 to 12 is only 4, so if you started your meal at 4, youd only be at 8 post meal... which is actually pretty good. Soo i wouldn't worry to much, but just work on getting that pre meal number a bit lower. [/QUOTE]
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