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<blockquote data-quote="Seacrow" data-source="post: 2435830" data-attributes="member: 420515"><p>Repeatedly taking correction doses is called 'stacking' your insulin, and you need to be really careful when doing it. What you are doing is adding one insulin profile on top of another. Normally the 'tail end' of the insulin is tiny, when all of them add up it can cause a late and extremely sharp drop in blood glucose.</p><p></p><p>A couple of things may be happening. When your blood glucose is high you need more insulin to bring your blood glucose down by the same amount. You may be underestimating your correction dose. The other is insulin resistance. I don't know what kind of shape you're in, but being type one doesn't mean you can't have insulin resistance, and this will vary depending on exercise, health etc.</p><p></p><p>I don't know that it helps a great deal, but you are not the only one with this. Try discussing it with your diabetes medical team, they might be able to help.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Seacrow, post: 2435830, member: 420515"] Repeatedly taking correction doses is called 'stacking' your insulin, and you need to be really careful when doing it. What you are doing is adding one insulin profile on top of another. Normally the 'tail end' of the insulin is tiny, when all of them add up it can cause a late and extremely sharp drop in blood glucose. A couple of things may be happening. When your blood glucose is high you need more insulin to bring your blood glucose down by the same amount. You may be underestimating your correction dose. The other is insulin resistance. I don't know what kind of shape you're in, but being type one doesn't mean you can't have insulin resistance, and this will vary depending on exercise, health etc. I don't know that it helps a great deal, but you are not the only one with this. Try discussing it with your diabetes medical team, they might be able to help. [/QUOTE]
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