I took my lantus injection last night as usual and about half-an-hour later, my libre is going red. Took a finger prick reading and got this.
Took about 15grams of carbs to recover and headed back to bed, but was wondering what I should have done.
On the one hand, I feel that most, if not all, of my lantus injection has been wasted - so perhaps I should wait a while until my BS reaches 6 or so and then redo my lantus injection. But that sounds dangerous especially because I don't know how much lantus is still in my system and working properly. On the other hand, if I don't redo the lantus, then I am going to end up high in the morning and be struggling for most of the next day.
So I took the safe route and didn't take any more insulin and when I woke up for breakfast at 7am, my BS was 10.6 !
Next issue is how to recover from that. I tried (guessing and) taking 3 extra units at breakfast (ie 8 instead of 5).
That was nowhere near enough and two hours later my BS was over 17 and so I took another 2 units. (I think that is ok, because it was going to be another four hours before my next meal and insulin dose, so I'm not going to be 'stacking')
That correction (and the 10000 steps) seemed to do the trick as I peaked about 18 and started to fall.
Went down as low as 6, but was back up above 7 at lunch time. (I assume the rise is because I don't have enough lantus in my system). That meant I was back up above 10 a couple of hours later and again above 7 at dinner time.
Was wondering how other people handle this?
Took about 15grams of carbs to recover and headed back to bed, but was wondering what I should have done.
On the one hand, I feel that most, if not all, of my lantus injection has been wasted - so perhaps I should wait a while until my BS reaches 6 or so and then redo my lantus injection. But that sounds dangerous especially because I don't know how much lantus is still in my system and working properly. On the other hand, if I don't redo the lantus, then I am going to end up high in the morning and be struggling for most of the next day.
So I took the safe route and didn't take any more insulin and when I woke up for breakfast at 7am, my BS was 10.6 !
Next issue is how to recover from that. I tried (guessing and) taking 3 extra units at breakfast (ie 8 instead of 5).
That was nowhere near enough and two hours later my BS was over 17 and so I took another 2 units. (I think that is ok, because it was going to be another four hours before my next meal and insulin dose, so I'm not going to be 'stacking')
That correction (and the 10000 steps) seemed to do the trick as I peaked about 18 and started to fall.
Went down as low as 6, but was back up above 7 at lunch time. (I assume the rise is because I don't have enough lantus in my system). That meant I was back up above 10 a couple of hours later and again above 7 at dinner time.
Was wondering how other people handle this?