Keto dosages

mentat

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Pump
How have your dosages changed since going on Keto?

My meal dosages have come down from say 8u to say 5u. Which is about what I expected.

But my Levemir needs have gone from 8 morning 8 evening, to 16 morning, 3 evening, which surprised me. Do other people have such high daytime basal needs?
 

JAT1

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
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Insulin
You have raised an interesting issue. I'm not keto. I was for awhile but I continued to lose weight and so I had no choice but to up my carbs as I am too skinny. I'm now 80 to 90 carbs a day. My thoughts on your increase in basal and decrease in bolus are these: you are eating more foods now that require a longer time to break down, such as protein, to the point where insulin is needed to get the nutrition into your cells and basal would deal better with this.