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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SophiaW" data-source="post: 279037" data-attributes="member: 13451">Ooh, you need to make sure you never leave home without your insulin. Maybe you can carry a spare pen in your bag. Whenever I go out with my daughter I always take more than I think she'll need, always thinking what happens if there's a problem and we can't get home at the time I planned - e.g. bad traffic or weather or some other sort of emergency. I take more snacks, drinks and insulin than I think she'll need. If we're visiting friends or family a distance away for the day I'll take enough supplies to last me a couple of days, just incase the car breaks down and we end up having to stay overnight (this has happened to us once).Even although the cake was sugar free I'll reckon there were carbs in there from flour and other ingredients. Those carbs would have raised your blood glucose levels.You did the right thing checking your blood glucose immediately on coming home and then giving a correction dose of insulin to bring the readings down. It appears that you may have over-corrected though. Do you know what your insulin sensitivity factor (ISF) is? That means how many mmol/l 1 unit of fast acting insulin will reduce your blood glucose by. If for example your ISF is 1:5 then 4 units of rapid acting insulin would have reduced your blood glucose from 27.4 mmol/l to approximately 7.4 mmol/l. The other thing I always do if there is a correction of rapid acting insulin given is that I check blood glucose again 2.5 - 3 hours later, even if it means setting an alarm for the middle of the night. This gives me peace of mind that I can check I haven't over-corrected the high reading and if I have then I can often stop a hypo before it gets too low. The other thing to remember if you think you have a high reading is to drink plenty of water.</blockquote>

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