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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Grumpy ole thing" data-source="post: 1418374" data-attributes="member: 156752">In a usual day, where you don’t take any additional exercise and don’t eat carbohydrate your Background or Basal insulin (the Levemir) should keep you between 5-8 (your DSN will advise you).If you eat carbs your blood sugar will rise and you need to find the ratio of fast acting insulin (your novo rapid) to carbs to bring it back down to your base level.  If you excercice your blood sugar will fall and you will need to eat carbs, or you can reduce your background insulin, to bring your blood sugars back up to your base level.You might find you need different ratios of carb to insulin units at different meal times.Hope this helps, your Dafne course will show you how to do this, I would definitely recommend it.Good luck x</blockquote>

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