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<blockquote data-quote="jadeashton24" data-source="post: 1826941" data-attributes="member: 443140"><p>[USER=479878]@handicapable[/USER] can you elaborate further what you mean by over prescribed. like they gave you more for the month than you need or they wrote down that you’re on more daily then you are?</p><p></p><p>as a member of the forum we can’t give dosing advice but would recommend keeping your doses as they currently are until you can talk to either a diabetic nurse or doctor!</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>EDIT: just read your above post properly and noticed you are saying you are having lots of hypos. Hypos can be caused by the heat or by the insulin doses being too high. The best way to find out if your long-acting insulin is the culprit is to do basal testing. This involves eating only carb-free food or no food for the duration of the day I think, however there is more information on this in another section of the forum. Search for Basal Testing and you should find it.</p><p></p><p>As a general rule of thumb which I know we are allowed to share on this forum is that if you are waking up hypo to reduce your long acting by 2 units every few days until you don’t wake up hypo! </p><p>Please bare in mind that the heat causes havoc with blood sugars, some manage fine, some have highs, some have lows. I personally get lots of stubborn highs then rebound lows. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Good Luck!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jadeashton24, post: 1826941, member: 443140"] [USER=479878]@handicapable[/USER] can you elaborate further what you mean by over prescribed. like they gave you more for the month than you need or they wrote down that you’re on more daily then you are? as a member of the forum we can’t give dosing advice but would recommend keeping your doses as they currently are until you can talk to either a diabetic nurse or doctor! EDIT: just read your above post properly and noticed you are saying you are having lots of hypos. Hypos can be caused by the heat or by the insulin doses being too high. The best way to find out if your long-acting insulin is the culprit is to do basal testing. This involves eating only carb-free food or no food for the duration of the day I think, however there is more information on this in another section of the forum. Search for Basal Testing and you should find it. As a general rule of thumb which I know we are allowed to share on this forum is that if you are waking up hypo to reduce your long acting by 2 units every few days until you don’t wake up hypo! Please bare in mind that the heat causes havoc with blood sugars, some manage fine, some have highs, some have lows. I personally get lots of stubborn highs then rebound lows. Good Luck!! [/QUOTE]
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