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<blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 2107594" data-attributes="member: 372717"><p>They need to reduce your blood sugar slowly for 2 reasons</p><p>1) if you increase your insulin too rapidly you run the risk of too low blood sugar (hypo) which is very risky in the short term (potentially lose rationality and then consciousness)</p><p>2) I believe that a gradual reduction is safer for organs such as your eyes.</p><p></p><p>Have they given you any advice about quantities of carbohydrate in meals? Long term, they'll adjust your lantus so that your morning level roughly matches your before bed reading, and they'll calculate both an insulin to carb ratio for meals and a correction factor for reducing your levels if they are too high. But everyone needs different quantities of insulin, specially given that your pancreas is probably still pumping some out, so they'll need some data before they can work out your levels.</p><p></p><p>I believe that</p><p><a href="http://www.bertieonline.org.uk" target="_blank">www.bertieonline.org.uk</a></p><p></p><p>has some good resources for new (and old) T1s.</p><p></p><p></p><p>I doubt that the OP is having 120g per meal so suspect that this is not the ratio used by his nurse.... And honestly, this ratio can vary massively between people and even at different times of day for one person....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EllieM, post: 2107594, member: 372717"] They need to reduce your blood sugar slowly for 2 reasons 1) if you increase your insulin too rapidly you run the risk of too low blood sugar (hypo) which is very risky in the short term (potentially lose rationality and then consciousness) 2) I believe that a gradual reduction is safer for organs such as your eyes. Have they given you any advice about quantities of carbohydrate in meals? Long term, they'll adjust your lantus so that your morning level roughly matches your before bed reading, and they'll calculate both an insulin to carb ratio for meals and a correction factor for reducing your levels if they are too high. But everyone needs different quantities of insulin, specially given that your pancreas is probably still pumping some out, so they'll need some data before they can work out your levels. I believe that [URL="http://www.bertieonline.org.uk"]www.bertieonline.org.uk[/URL] has some good resources for new (and old) T1s. I doubt that the OP is having 120g per meal so suspect that this is not the ratio used by his nurse.... And honestly, this ratio can vary massively between people and even at different times of day for one person.... [/QUOTE]
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