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<blockquote data-quote="KK123" data-source="post: 2225680" data-attributes="member: 451727"><p>Hi there, I have just completed a type 1 'course' and they did say not to be tempted to take another insulin dose if a correction hasn't worked 'immediately'. They said that a correction dose can take up to 4 hours to have an effect so to wait. If you take another dose before that '4 hours' it may have the opposite effect in that suddenly your levels will drop quickly forcing your body to dump glucose...and up it goes. You might be chasing your levels all day if you do that. I would say keep a close eye, maybe test every hour so you can see what it's doing and if there is no change after 4 or so hours, then assess again. As for the 'no food', well it looks like your levels have been stable albeit at 13 or so. That is a fasting level of course so it may be that your basal needs looking at. x</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KK123, post: 2225680, member: 451727"] Hi there, I have just completed a type 1 'course' and they did say not to be tempted to take another insulin dose if a correction hasn't worked 'immediately'. They said that a correction dose can take up to 4 hours to have an effect so to wait. If you take another dose before that '4 hours' it may have the opposite effect in that suddenly your levels will drop quickly forcing your body to dump glucose...and up it goes. You might be chasing your levels all day if you do that. I would say keep a close eye, maybe test every hour so you can see what it's doing and if there is no change after 4 or so hours, then assess again. As for the 'no food', well it looks like your levels have been stable albeit at 13 or so. That is a fasting level of course so it may be that your basal needs looking at. x [/QUOTE]
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