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<blockquote data-quote="Margi" data-source="post: 203351" data-attributes="member: 30601"><p>I illustrated my own point to myself today.</p><p></p><p>My BS was about 14 something when I got up this morning (results from memory because I can't be bothered to fiddle through my meter to get exact ones) because I was not too careful the night before, so I had a little more insulin than usual before breakfast and work. About three hours later I felt a little off so I tested in case I was hypo - sometimes it's not that obvious to me - but the test said 13 something. Since I have been working, my BS mid morning has usually been lower than that, and 13 is above my comfortable 'I can ignore it' level, and as it was my not so physically active working day I, stupidly thought I should correct it. For me 1 unit will bring the BS down about 2 Mmols/l, so I had three units. Stupid! I still had a couple of hours cleaning work to do; the BS had been taken only three hours after breakfast and it had been 1 mmol lower than before breakfast (duh!! I should have realised it was coming down!), so the result was, about an hour later, a 2.1 test. :shock: </p><p></p><p>I had an orange juice and kept on ironing because that doesn't use much energy, ate a savoury sandwich from my lunch box when I finished about forty minutes later and went off to find a pretty place to have my picnic lunch between jobs. I didn't inject for that sandwich, I only counted the carbs in the rest of my lunch to calculate the dose and mid afternoon my BS was around 8, which for me on an active day is safe. It was 4 something later on at tea time.</p><p></p><p>So you can see from that convoluted sequence that I was an idiot to correct a 13 test mid-morning. It would have sorted itself out courtesy of my basal insulin combined with the residual humalog and my activity level. It's a mistake I don't remember making since I did the DAFNE course that taught me not to do it. I could have so easily started a real roller coaster, but DAFNE taught me how to not do that and the uncounted sandwich did the job.</p><p></p><p>The official book of words, I think it is some invention of the NICE people, says our BS should not go over 9, two hours after meals. Well, if they lived in the real world where people whirl around like spinning tops between meals, they would know that 9, three hours before the next meal, is only going to be safe if you are sitting on your ***** in an office. There is a thread somewhere about increasing your BS on purpose before exercise and my answer is: absolutely. A slightly higher BS for a short time will do no harm; a serious hypo can knock you out and leave you hungover and feeling like death, not to mention allow you to make irrational decisions and possibly do something dangerous, like for instance, dropping the carving knife on your toes because your fingers wouldn't hold it.</p><p></p><p>I should know better after all these years. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite10" alt=":oops:" title="Oops! :oops:" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":oops:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Margi, post: 203351, member: 30601"] I illustrated my own point to myself today. My BS was about 14 something when I got up this morning (results from memory because I can't be bothered to fiddle through my meter to get exact ones) because I was not too careful the night before, so I had a little more insulin than usual before breakfast and work. About three hours later I felt a little off so I tested in case I was hypo - sometimes it's not that obvious to me - but the test said 13 something. Since I have been working, my BS mid morning has usually been lower than that, and 13 is above my comfortable 'I can ignore it' level, and as it was my not so physically active working day I, stupidly thought I should correct it. For me 1 unit will bring the BS down about 2 Mmols/l, so I had three units. Stupid! I still had a couple of hours cleaning work to do; the BS had been taken only three hours after breakfast and it had been 1 mmol lower than before breakfast (duh!! I should have realised it was coming down!), so the result was, about an hour later, a 2.1 test. :shock: I had an orange juice and kept on ironing because that doesn't use much energy, ate a savoury sandwich from my lunch box when I finished about forty minutes later and went off to find a pretty place to have my picnic lunch between jobs. I didn't inject for that sandwich, I only counted the carbs in the rest of my lunch to calculate the dose and mid afternoon my BS was around 8, which for me on an active day is safe. It was 4 something later on at tea time. So you can see from that convoluted sequence that I was an idiot to correct a 13 test mid-morning. It would have sorted itself out courtesy of my basal insulin combined with the residual humalog and my activity level. It's a mistake I don't remember making since I did the DAFNE course that taught me not to do it. I could have so easily started a real roller coaster, but DAFNE taught me how to not do that and the uncounted sandwich did the job. The official book of words, I think it is some invention of the NICE people, says our BS should not go over 9, two hours after meals. Well, if they lived in the real world where people whirl around like spinning tops between meals, they would know that 9, three hours before the next meal, is only going to be safe if you are sitting on your ***** in an office. There is a thread somewhere about increasing your BS on purpose before exercise and my answer is: absolutely. A slightly higher BS for a short time will do no harm; a serious hypo can knock you out and leave you hungover and feeling like death, not to mention allow you to make irrational decisions and possibly do something dangerous, like for instance, dropping the carving knife on your toes because your fingers wouldn't hold it. I should know better after all these years. :oops: [/QUOTE]
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