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<blockquote data-quote="Juicyj" data-source="post: 618032" data-attributes="member: 53162"><p>Hey Rebecca,</p><p></p><p>How did you get on yesterday ?</p><p></p><p>As Adele said earlier, it looks like your correction dose cause your hypo on 'todays' reading as you only took it within 2 hours of your last injection. I've looked up Humalog in my DAFNE handbook and it takes up to 4 hours for this quick acting insulin to work it's way out of your system so you are loading up on QA which isn't safe. Ideally you should only correct 4 hours afterwards or before meal times so you take your dose for your food and then your correction at the same time - try to avoid the temptation of correcting because it looks high - after eating your readings will be high for up to 3-4 hours, so don't get too worried, I was doing this also and over-correcting so got in a right muddle, also got fixated with numbers !</p><p></p><p>How are you getting on with carb counting and do you think you are taking the right level of QA ?</p><p></p><p>If you haven't done DAFNE already please contact your team and ask for this, it will give you the guidance and information to get tooled up.</p><p></p><p>I would also try to do a fast one day to see what your levels are doing on your background insulin as this may need some adjusting, you can still eat but go carb free and try a salad with ham or egg and just monitor your readings - can you do this ?</p><p></p><p>It's all trial and error and you will get better at it, just new NHS advice is to avoid the hypos if you can (nightmare I know !) and PM me if I can help at all.</p><p></p><p><img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Juicyj, post: 618032, member: 53162"] Hey Rebecca, How did you get on yesterday ? As Adele said earlier, it looks like your correction dose cause your hypo on 'todays' reading as you only took it within 2 hours of your last injection. I've looked up Humalog in my DAFNE handbook and it takes up to 4 hours for this quick acting insulin to work it's way out of your system so you are loading up on QA which isn't safe. Ideally you should only correct 4 hours afterwards or before meal times so you take your dose for your food and then your correction at the same time - try to avoid the temptation of correcting because it looks high - after eating your readings will be high for up to 3-4 hours, so don't get too worried, I was doing this also and over-correcting so got in a right muddle, also got fixated with numbers ! How are you getting on with carb counting and do you think you are taking the right level of QA ? If you haven't done DAFNE already please contact your team and ask for this, it will give you the guidance and information to get tooled up. I would also try to do a fast one day to see what your levels are doing on your background insulin as this may need some adjusting, you can still eat but go carb free and try a salad with ham or egg and just monitor your readings - can you do this ? It's all trial and error and you will get better at it, just new NHS advice is to avoid the hypos if you can (nightmare I know !) and PM me if I can help at all. ;) [/QUOTE]
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