Low carb or no carb - lessons learned...

I drink wine with low carb meals without any ill effect. I wonder if it's your background insulin. If I'm drinking later on then I take less background insulin in the morning. I change my background often daily.

 

I'm glad you avoided a trip to hospital. We've all over-reacted to a hypo at times, but it looks as if you've struck lucky. If you're going to be drinking, now you can choose some carbs to go with it, rather going for glucose gel. Choose something you really like to keep in stock, just in case.

 

Your background insulin will take 2 or 3 days to work its way into your system and to see any noticeable differences? So changing it daily will not give you a clear sight into what effect those changes are having!??

 

I've found with the split Levemir I'm on I can make adjustments in a morning or evening as its active life is roughly over the 12 hours. I tend to run my basal fairly 'to the wire' so I can try and avoid unnecessary snacking. It does occasionally mean I use more Fiasp adding minor corrections but I'm generally happy with it this way and keep an eye on it with Libre/Miaomiao.

 

Ah ok....I was always told to wait for 3 days to see any effects with my long lasting insulin. Mind you I was never on Levemir. I stand corrected Thank you both

 

I was on Levemir before I went onto Tresiba.

 

I was never on a split dose, as I was on 10 units of Levemir and was advised by DSN, no need to split as I was on a low dose.

 

I'm not on big doses but I need more at night than through the day with my morning dose generally. I'm on a 60/40 split roughly on most days.

 

I know many Levemir users did split their dose, but I was ok on just one before bed.

 

I'm also on Tresiba and a couple of HCPs have told me to wait 2-3 days to see any changes.

 

Definitely 3 days on Toujeo. Very annoying.

 

I was once told, many years ago by my Diabetes consultant, that the worse that will happen if you lose consciousness because your BS goes too low is that you will wake up with a severe headache. So nothing to be scared about! Mind you I have never tested this theory out.

 

I’m T2 diet controlled so stand to be corrected but wouldn’t that be dependent on somebody being there to assist/boost your BS whilst you were unconscious?

 

If plenty of sugar in the liver @Daphne917 highly likely. Though wouldn’t want to try it. Pesky organ the liver!

 

It depends what you're on. Levimeer starts working in 4 hours and is out of your system 12 to 18 hours, but less overnight. So changing your background does make a huge difference for me. If I'm planning a 90-minute run I cut my background insulin back in the morning. This was advice given by my Specialist and I've found it correct.