- Messages
- 45
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Insulin
In July I was placed on insulin and told to start to take 2 units of insulin (novorapid) with each meal and 4 units of Levemir at night and to increase this each week by 2 units (both novorapid and Levemir) un til my blood sugar was in the range set for me.
I did this religiously initially but realised that depending on the amount of carbs I had in a meal sometimes I would be out of range and knew that I would be. I read about carb counting and began to take as much insulin as I though I would need and this stoped the hypos and being too high in terms of my blood sugar. Still high in the morning but think this is the dawn effect.
I have my appointment with the diabetes specialist in a couple of weeks and am panicking that he will say that I should have stuck to the regime set by him and using as much insulin as need to cover carbs is only for type 1 diabetics. My 30 day average is now 6.1 which converts to a HbA1c of 36 which if accurate is amazing given that I had a HbA1c in the 90s in April and 81 in June
Does anyone know if it is ok to just use as much insulin as needed to cover carb intake for type 2's?
I did this religiously initially but realised that depending on the amount of carbs I had in a meal sometimes I would be out of range and knew that I would be. I read about carb counting and began to take as much insulin as I though I would need and this stoped the hypos and being too high in terms of my blood sugar. Still high in the morning but think this is the dawn effect.
I have my appointment with the diabetes specialist in a couple of weeks and am panicking that he will say that I should have stuck to the regime set by him and using as much insulin as need to cover carbs is only for type 1 diabetics. My 30 day average is now 6.1 which converts to a HbA1c of 36 which if accurate is amazing given that I had a HbA1c in the 90s in April and 81 in June
Does anyone know if it is ok to just use as much insulin as needed to cover carb intake for type 2's?