the_anticarb
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Hello fellow basal-bolus-ers,
I have been trying to get my basal dosage and bolus ratios sorted, but I find that when I eat a lot more carbs it completely throws the basal dose out. Does anyone else find this?
According to DAFNE logic, the base dose should stay the same whether you have 10 or 1000g of carbs (not advocating anyone has 1000g btw!) and you 'd just increase your bolus dose to match the carbs.
But I find that if my overall carb consumption increases I defintely need a higher basal dose - like double if I've had a really carby day.
This makes it difficult for dafne to work for me unless I stick to roughly the same intake of carbs each day.
Now I've posted this in the T1 forum so all you dafne graduates can answer - but although I am functionally a t1 (not producing my own insulin) I'm actually a lesser-spotted MODY so I don't know if I just have a weird uncontrollable form of diabetes or if if other people find this too.
It keeps throwing my ratios out big time and I don't know what to change, basal or bolus, if I eat more carbs one day than another.
the dietician at the diabetes centre insists it is only the bolus dose which should change, but then if I do that I'm running high before meals/bed/on waking which is wrong, so DAFNE is not working for me!!!
Help!!
I have been trying to get my basal dosage and bolus ratios sorted, but I find that when I eat a lot more carbs it completely throws the basal dose out. Does anyone else find this?
According to DAFNE logic, the base dose should stay the same whether you have 10 or 1000g of carbs (not advocating anyone has 1000g btw!) and you 'd just increase your bolus dose to match the carbs.
But I find that if my overall carb consumption increases I defintely need a higher basal dose - like double if I've had a really carby day.
This makes it difficult for dafne to work for me unless I stick to roughly the same intake of carbs each day.
Now I've posted this in the T1 forum so all you dafne graduates can answer - but although I am functionally a t1 (not producing my own insulin) I'm actually a lesser-spotted MODY so I don't know if I just have a weird uncontrollable form of diabetes or if if other people find this too.
It keeps throwing my ratios out big time and I don't know what to change, basal or bolus, if I eat more carbs one day than another.
the dietician at the diabetes centre insists it is only the bolus dose which should change, but then if I do that I'm running high before meals/bed/on waking which is wrong, so DAFNE is not working for me!!!
Help!!