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<blockquote data-quote="sgm14" data-source="post: 2451437" data-attributes="member: 517358"><p>From your question, you may be making the same assumption that I made when I was first diagnosed. I was told to test 2 hours after a meal to see if the blood sugars had "come back down enough" and from that I assumed this meant that the peak was <strong>always </strong>less than 2 hours after the meal. </p><p></p><p>When I got my freestyle libre and could see exactly what was happening, I could see that that was mostly, but not always true. One of the meals that I took occasionally would cause a small spike within an hour and had fallen back after two hours, but then I had another much large spike after 3 or sometimes even 4 hours later. </p><p></p><p>> Maybe I have my insulin to carb ratios wrong .</p><p>> Clinician told me to up to 1.5 per 10g of carbs</p><p></p><p>Talk to them. I suspect they may tell you this is just a starting recommendation or a suggestion and you need to see if it works out for you.</p><p></p><p>Not everyone has a simple and consistent ratio. If you were to ask me what my insulin to carb ratio was, I would say I don't really have one. More accurately, the ratio varies either depending on the meal or the time of the meal and it has changed over time.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="sgm14, post: 2451437, member: 517358"] From your question, you may be making the same assumption that I made when I was first diagnosed. I was told to test 2 hours after a meal to see if the blood sugars had "come back down enough" and from that I assumed this meant that the peak was [B]always [/B]less than 2 hours after the meal. When I got my freestyle libre and could see exactly what was happening, I could see that that was mostly, but not always true. One of the meals that I took occasionally would cause a small spike within an hour and had fallen back after two hours, but then I had another much large spike after 3 or sometimes even 4 hours later. > Maybe I have my insulin to carb ratios wrong . > Clinician told me to up to 1.5 per 10g of carbs Talk to them. I suspect they may tell you this is just a starting recommendation or a suggestion and you need to see if it works out for you. Not everyone has a simple and consistent ratio. If you were to ask me what my insulin to carb ratio was, I would say I don't really have one. More accurately, the ratio varies either depending on the meal or the time of the meal and it has changed over time. [/QUOTE]
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