Carb counting ratios

birchy66 said:

Thanks Spiker, I had wondered about the Levemir but still doing as my DSN instructed at diagnosis. How would you go about splitting it to twice daily?

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Spiker said:

As a starting point just split it 50/50 and take it 12 hrs apart. Then adjust each dose up or down from there based on your BG readings.

Often people are given single dose Levemir shortly after diagnosis when they still have some insulin activity. There is often poor follow up, alas.

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birchy66 said:

Thanks Spiker, that makes sense and sounds simple enough. I'll also run it past my DSN but in the end it has to be trial and error and adjust up or down as you say. Cheers.

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smc4761 said:

I have been diabetic for over 34 years and when I was diagnosed, we were taught exchanges, for carbohydrate to insulin.

This is similar to carb counting it would seem which I was taught fairly recently.

Find that I am having to take a carb ratio of 2 units of insulin for each 10 g of carbohydrate. I read on this forum and it seems that many are on a 1/1 ratio or 1.5/1 ratio,

I know there is no defintive answer, or what is "normal" but what are your guys ratios

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