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<blockquote data-quote="Marie 2" data-source="post: 2322065" data-attributes="member: 475037"><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><strong><a href="https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/members/cupoftea-sliceoftoast.532174/" target="_blank">@Cupoftea&sliceoftoast </a></strong></span></p><p>First, when you drop too low, you get ravenous, it's something you mostly end learning (hopefully) to control. But as a teen and a newbie, I'm not sure it's even fair to get her to try to learn too strictly yet. But as a newbie she was probably used to numbers being too high and she could be feeling what we call false lows which is feeling low at higher than "normal" numbers because she is not used to "normal"numbers. To compound that with the fact she is dropping too low at times.</p><p></p><p>But first you usually want to try to work on basal doses. A basal test might be needed. Basal needs allow for what the liver puts out in glucose without eating and not for food. A lot of times drops can be from too strong of a basal dose which then makes your bolus look like it is too strong. And while she is waking with the same number as when she has gone to bed, that doesn't rule out basal levels being too strong during the day. Plus, being a newbie her needs can be variable, it's what we call the honeymoon phase. She might still be making some of her own insulin sometimes, which might make any of her dosing too strong.</p><p></p><p>But bolus doses can change during the day, at night I get more insulin sensitive and need half of what I take for carbs during the morning. Plus as a woman your menses can increase your needs of insulin, which means when you are not hormonal your needs are not as high the rest of the month.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marie 2, post: 2322065, member: 475037"] [SIZE=4][B][URL='https://www.diabetes.co.uk/forum/members/cupoftea-sliceoftoast.532174/']@Cupoftea&sliceoftoast [/URL][/B][/SIZE] First, when you drop too low, you get ravenous, it's something you mostly end learning (hopefully) to control. But as a teen and a newbie, I'm not sure it's even fair to get her to try to learn too strictly yet. But as a newbie she was probably used to numbers being too high and she could be feeling what we call false lows which is feeling low at higher than "normal" numbers because she is not used to "normal"numbers. To compound that with the fact she is dropping too low at times. But first you usually want to try to work on basal doses. A basal test might be needed. Basal needs allow for what the liver puts out in glucose without eating and not for food. A lot of times drops can be from too strong of a basal dose which then makes your bolus look like it is too strong. And while she is waking with the same number as when she has gone to bed, that doesn't rule out basal levels being too strong during the day. Plus, being a newbie her needs can be variable, it's what we call the honeymoon phase. She might still be making some of her own insulin sometimes, which might make any of her dosing too strong. But bolus doses can change during the day, at night I get more insulin sensitive and need half of what I take for carbs during the morning. Plus as a woman your menses can increase your needs of insulin, which means when you are not hormonal your needs are not as high the rest of the month. [/QUOTE]
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