If that's where your numbers come from, then they're just trying to start from a clean slate - throw out all you've learned about your insulin requirement, and re-learn them during the course. I am not convinced that that's the smartest way of going about things.Then they announced they wanted everyone to start on a baseline regime which they’d tweak during the week. Dafne has discovered, they said, that people tend to take too much basal which actually buggers up control. So would I please take 24u of basal.
At the time the figure seemed plucked from a hat. It certainly hadn’t reflected the fact that it was the figure I already used. In retrospect, I’m certain they were applying some variant on the principles of 0.5-0.8 units of insulin per 1kg of body weight to give a TDD (total daily dose), that most people need about one unit of basal per hour, and keeping the basal and bolus split somewhere near 50/50.
They also asked that, on the morning of the course, I take 1u of rapid for every 10g of carb. Fair enough. I was doing one to nine anyway.
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