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How low is too low for an HbA1c?
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<blockquote data-quote="pianoman" data-source="post: 223378" data-attributes="member: 35747"><p>To some extent it also depends on what you are eating and how fast it would tend to raise your BG... I doubt that a non-diabetic pancreas dumps all the first phase insulin as soon as we eat but rather it would respond on demand to the rising BG as the food is digested... it is just that by secreting the insulin directly into the blood stream it can have a far quicker response than we can possibly manage with a subcutaneous injection (or infusion). Some foods will start digesting as soon as they hit saliva but of course, others take longer.</p><p></p><p>As above, it has been my experience (5+ years on an insulin pump) that it takes less insulin to keep the BG down than it does to try and correct for an high BG later. As I recall, others have reported the same. The suggestion of injecting the fast acting some minutes prior to starting eating was to give the sub-q injection a head start, as it were.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pianoman, post: 223378, member: 35747"] To some extent it also depends on what you are eating and how fast it would tend to raise your BG... I doubt that a non-diabetic pancreas dumps all the first phase insulin as soon as we eat but rather it would respond on demand to the rising BG as the food is digested... it is just that by secreting the insulin directly into the blood stream it can have a far quicker response than we can possibly manage with a subcutaneous injection (or infusion). Some foods will start digesting as soon as they hit saliva but of course, others take longer. As above, it has been my experience (5+ years on an insulin pump) that it takes less insulin to keep the BG down than it does to try and correct for an high BG later. As I recall, others have reported the same. The suggestion of injecting the fast acting some minutes prior to starting eating was to give the sub-q injection a head start, as it were. [/QUOTE]
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