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Message: <blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1440971" data-attributes="member: 32394">Carb counting is monitoring how many units of fast acting you need to deal with carbs, you end up with an insulin (units) to carb (grams) ratio. So if you carb count and are using a 1:10 ratio, you might want to consider reducing this to 1:20, or more coming up to and during exercise. It's also helpful to know how many grams of carbs you need to take on to treat hypos.Novorapid is bolus, levemir is basal. So you are on a basal/bolus regiem. As others have mentioned you might want to consider reducing your basal for the exercise, levemir is pretty flexible/responsive so you would be able to reduce as you go if you need to.So do you have any knowledge of how one game of football effects your blood sugar? Or do you not test around exercise at all. That would probably help in working out what to do to mange blood sugar for 5 back to back games of football. Really exercise needs a bit of testing. Even if you have a dexcom that needs calibrating twice daily, it can sometimes struggle to keep up with swift blood sugar changes that can come from exercise, you can't always trust any CGM to be entirely accurate.</blockquote>

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