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<blockquote data-quote="Antje77" data-source="post: 2688732" data-attributes="member: 372207"><p>Sounds like you're off on a good start, already working out how many carbs cover how much insulin!</p><p>Ideally, you'll work the other way around, you eat however many or little carbs you want, and adjust your doses to match the carbs. </p><p>It's very common to start with fixed doses, like you are though, and work towards adjusting insulin.</p><p></p><p>The quickest way to learn is to keep tabs on carbs (you can log them in the Libre app), and before and after blood glucose. This will eventually tell you how much insulin you need for how many carbs.</p><p>Don't expect your insulin to carbs ratio to be the same during the day, so compare breakfast (if you have it) with breakfast, lunch with lunch, dinner with dinner for easier pattern spotting!</p><p>It's not a perfect system, you'll likely find on some days your insulin is like water, on other days lows keep threatening, but it's a very good starting point.</p><p></p><p>Depends on your definition of a hypo.</p><p>My endo is mainly interested in the sub 3 ones (2 or 3 times a year for me, usually because I did something stupid), and the ones needing outside help (hasn't happened in my 7 years of diabetes).</p><p>As per guidelines, I try to stay above 4, but I'm not worried about short drifts into the high 3's, which happens multiple times a week and is usually corrected with just a small bite of something or other.</p><p>Anything 3.6 and below I try to avoid like the plague, numbers between 3.2 and 3.6 still happen about twice a month though.</p><p></p><p>This may be completely different for others. I never wondered about this, very good question!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Antje77, post: 2688732, member: 372207"] Sounds like you're off on a good start, already working out how many carbs cover how much insulin! Ideally, you'll work the other way around, you eat however many or little carbs you want, and adjust your doses to match the carbs. It's very common to start with fixed doses, like you are though, and work towards adjusting insulin. The quickest way to learn is to keep tabs on carbs (you can log them in the Libre app), and before and after blood glucose. This will eventually tell you how much insulin you need for how many carbs. Don't expect your insulin to carbs ratio to be the same during the day, so compare breakfast (if you have it) with breakfast, lunch with lunch, dinner with dinner for easier pattern spotting! It's not a perfect system, you'll likely find on some days your insulin is like water, on other days lows keep threatening, but it's a very good starting point. Depends on your definition of a hypo. My endo is mainly interested in the sub 3 ones (2 or 3 times a year for me, usually because I did something stupid), and the ones needing outside help (hasn't happened in my 7 years of diabetes). As per guidelines, I try to stay above 4, but I'm not worried about short drifts into the high 3's, which happens multiple times a week and is usually corrected with just a small bite of something or other. Anything 3.6 and below I try to avoid like the plague, numbers between 3.2 and 3.6 still happen about twice a month though. This may be completely different for others. I never wondered about this, very good question! [/QUOTE]
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