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<blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1445526" data-attributes="member: 32394"><p>Well that's a brave correction dose if you've been told 1 unit lowers you by 3. 15 units would lower you by 45 and if you are at 33 you only want to drop by about 26. Keep a close eye on blood sugar and hypo treatments handy. Of course it's possible that 1 unit to lower you by 3 isn't the correct correction dose for you, is a fairly standard correction dose often used as a starting point for everyone, including those on much lower total daily doses of insulin. And you're very high so that high blood sugar will be exacerbating your insulin resistance.</p><p></p><p>I'm not sure why you think a CGM will help. It seems that you have high blood sugar because your insulin doses aren't sufficient. You'd be better off learning how to use your insulin with some proper basal testing and learning how to carb count. Otherwise all a CGM will do is show you what's going wrong and you won't know how to fix it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catapillar, post: 1445526, member: 32394"] Well that's a brave correction dose if you've been told 1 unit lowers you by 3. 15 units would lower you by 45 and if you are at 33 you only want to drop by about 26. Keep a close eye on blood sugar and hypo treatments handy. Of course it's possible that 1 unit to lower you by 3 isn't the correct correction dose for you, is a fairly standard correction dose often used as a starting point for everyone, including those on much lower total daily doses of insulin. And you're very high so that high blood sugar will be exacerbating your insulin resistance. I'm not sure why you think a CGM will help. It seems that you have high blood sugar because your insulin doses aren't sufficient. You'd be better off learning how to use your insulin with some proper basal testing and learning how to carb count. Otherwise all a CGM will do is show you what's going wrong and you won't know how to fix it. [/QUOTE]
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