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High BG STILL!!

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C1a1r319

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Location
Stevenage, hertfordshire
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Pump
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I have been reducing my protein to 60g a day. That's 20g a meal and bolusing for half and my blood glucose are still going high. I barely get 15g carbs some days so it's not that. I'm about ready to throw the towel in.
It's not my Basals, I have tested all of them just 2 weeks ago. And this is isn't high like 8.7. This is like 13.5, 14.0, 15.0 BG!!!
I have done dual wave, normal.
Getting really upset because I just don't think I will ever be able to look after myself.
I take Metformin SR 1000mg per day.
Please someone help. I can't find anyone else on here with the same problem. I think it's just me.
The only way to get it down is if I walk walk walk. And then if I do that it shoots down.
 
I was on Jabs for many years and I had good control by adjusting my dosage. I am off jabs now, which is great, but I try to remember that good control is the goal. The method,? Well some ways are better than others.
 
Yeh I have read that. I have worked out my insulin dose by that and it still didn't work. Just sitting above 10.0 constantly
 
I was on fast with dinner 40 units
slow before bed 30 units
fast with breakfast 30 units
fast with lunch 30 units
total 130 units per day but I varied a bit depending on my test results and my GL.

I asked my Specialst at the time if that was too much, and he declared he was himself on well over 200 units per day.
 
Looks like you need more bolus and will have to refigure you bolus ratios.
 
When you have high bg you have to increase your insulin to compensate, there's no other way round it.
 
Just been on phone to nurse and she keeps going on and on and on about my Basals. But they are fine :/
I don't know how to work out my bolus ratio.
 
C1a1r319 said:
Just been on phone to nurse and she keeps going on and on and on about my Basals. But they are fine :/
I don't know how to work out my bolus ratio.
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I'm sure the other pump users will help you out there. However there's a book that often gets mentioned on the forum called Pumping Insulin by John Walsh, if your new to pump therapy it might be worth purchasing.
 
You could start by using your correction dose to calculate what you should have taken for a particular meal. Then add that to what you did take to work out the full dose you would have needed for that meal.
 
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