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<blockquote data-quote="Spiker" data-source="post: 533010" data-attributes="member: 102150"><p>Unless you are able to count carbs (and if low carb, also protein) in each meal you will never be able to see the correction pattern. You are right that you need to be able to see the patterns to correct them. You are also quite right that you should see a pattern for 3 days before making a change of basal rate, carb ratio or correction ratio. </p><p></p><p>It is ridiculous for any health care team to tell a T1 patient they are taking "too much insulin" and let their blood sugar go high. That really is jaw-droppingly ridiculous. Sure if they had your blood sugar good and stable, as "extra credit" it would then be good to get your insulin requirements down. But priority 1 has always got to be to get to target blood sugars and keep that stable. The only good reason I can think of for giving that advice is if you were having loads of hypos.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Spiker, post: 533010, member: 102150"] Unless you are able to count carbs (and if low carb, also protein) in each meal you will never be able to see the correction pattern. You are right that you need to be able to see the patterns to correct them. You are also quite right that you should see a pattern for 3 days before making a change of basal rate, carb ratio or correction ratio. It is ridiculous for any health care team to tell a T1 patient they are taking "too much insulin" and let their blood sugar go high. That really is jaw-droppingly ridiculous. Sure if they had your blood sugar good and stable, as "extra credit" it would then be good to get your insulin requirements down. But priority 1 has always got to be to get to target blood sugars and keep that stable. The only good reason I can think of for giving that advice is if you were having loads of hypos. [/QUOTE]
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