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<blockquote data-quote="Muneeb" data-source="post: 1906132" data-attributes="member: 491635"><p>I was in a similar situation a couple of months ago, got back in to the fitness. My carb ratio at the time was around 1.5 units per 10 grams of carbs, through the intense exercise I lost around 20 pounds in 8 weeks and through that time had many hypos whilst adjusting insulin levels. Now my carb ratio is more like 1 unit per 13 gram carbs, so a big drop due to insulin sensitivity increase. Now I'm having a key focus on hypos, by understanding how long insulin takes to act in my body, when it reaches the peak and the best time to inject to counteract rise in glucose levels. This has all helped me understand where I should be at say a 2/3 hour mark after injecting.</p><p></p><p>My problem has always been to aim for 5 mmol/L level, but that on its own is a hypo in awaiting as even a unit of insulin can potentially drop it down to 2.5 mmol/L resulting in a hypo. So my aim is now to achieve a level of 6.5/7 following a meal, and this has helped me get a much better night of sleep as well. A lot of it is trial and error, but you want to make that trial and error as little as possible. In the short term its probably better to inject less, learn how much insulin affects you through monitoring and make change based on this, rather than injecting too much.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Muneeb, post: 1906132, member: 491635"] I was in a similar situation a couple of months ago, got back in to the fitness. My carb ratio at the time was around 1.5 units per 10 grams of carbs, through the intense exercise I lost around 20 pounds in 8 weeks and through that time had many hypos whilst adjusting insulin levels. Now my carb ratio is more like 1 unit per 13 gram carbs, so a big drop due to insulin sensitivity increase. Now I'm having a key focus on hypos, by understanding how long insulin takes to act in my body, when it reaches the peak and the best time to inject to counteract rise in glucose levels. This has all helped me understand where I should be at say a 2/3 hour mark after injecting. My problem has always been to aim for 5 mmol/L level, but that on its own is a hypo in awaiting as even a unit of insulin can potentially drop it down to 2.5 mmol/L resulting in a hypo. So my aim is now to achieve a level of 6.5/7 following a meal, and this has helped me get a much better night of sleep as well. A lot of it is trial and error, but you want to make that trial and error as little as possible. In the short term its probably better to inject less, learn how much insulin affects you through monitoring and make change based on this, rather than injecting too much. [/QUOTE]
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