Mrs Erika Long
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Is it safe to take insulin without eating even if it's a snack in between meals
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Tophat1900
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Good chance. Take insulin + eat nothing = hypo.
Probably not the result you are wanting, if you are taking it to cover food. Carbs etc.
Probably not the result you are wanting, if you are taking it to cover food. Carbs etc.
Postleneo
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I have often taken a small dose of insulin as a correction before eating so as to get me back in range before calculating my dose for my meal. However I must stress that I am very cinfident that my ISF and my basal rate is set correctly. I wouldn't recommend this though without you ensuring your basal and ISF is known to be right and without advice from your DNS
Daibell
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You should only take insulin as a correction dose or if you are having food typically above 15gm carbs, otherwise a hypo is likely
rmz80
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One problem I had when first diagnosed was the diabetic nurse said you don’t have to count snacks.
On starting to use MyFitnessPal I counted everything. The so called snacks accounted for over a third of all my calories and carbs per day.
So; in my case; a meal can become a snack (when you can’t be bothered to weigh and work out cals and carbs, etc)
On starting to use MyFitnessPal I counted everything. The so called snacks accounted for over a third of all my calories and carbs per day.
So; in my case; a meal can become a snack (when you can’t be bothered to weigh and work out cals and carbs, etc)
