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<blockquote data-quote="etmsreec" data-source="post: 376031" data-attributes="member: 22426"><p>Hiya,</p><p>Your boyfriend is lucky to have someone that cares enough about him so stick with it. He's bound to be fed up and angry at this stage, but it will get better.</p><p>The insulin doses that he's on now will be a "best educated guess" for his bodyweight, lifestyle and so on. Once the numbers are down to a more sensible level, and once he's more used to diabetes, the real education can start and hopefully get him on a DAFNE course (dosage adjustment for normal eating) so that he can alter his insulin dose for what he wants to eat. The 70g carb meal is easy to start with, as it gives a good target to aim at in food and gives a stable amount of insulin to take.</p><p>The "best educated guess" on insulin is important, as there's an interrelationship between the long acting and short acting that he's almost certainly on. The short acting deals with the insulin spike required when one has a meal, the long acting provides a background. Too much short acting and not enough long acting means that things can look normal 2 hours after a meal, but the blood glucose level will rise when the short acting has been used up. Too much long and not enough short will mean it's high a couple of hours after the meal, but more chance of being hypo before the next meal.</p><p>Stick with it as you're being advised, and they'll get his doses sorted and he'll be a happier man.</p><p>Oh, and test blood glucose as the specialists will be telling him. It's a faff, and a pain, but without the evidence they won't be able to get him sorted!</p><p>Steve</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="etmsreec, post: 376031, member: 22426"] Hiya, Your boyfriend is lucky to have someone that cares enough about him so stick with it. He's bound to be fed up and angry at this stage, but it will get better. The insulin doses that he's on now will be a "best educated guess" for his bodyweight, lifestyle and so on. Once the numbers are down to a more sensible level, and once he's more used to diabetes, the real education can start and hopefully get him on a DAFNE course (dosage adjustment for normal eating) so that he can alter his insulin dose for what he wants to eat. The 70g carb meal is easy to start with, as it gives a good target to aim at in food and gives a stable amount of insulin to take. The "best educated guess" on insulin is important, as there's an interrelationship between the long acting and short acting that he's almost certainly on. The short acting deals with the insulin spike required when one has a meal, the long acting provides a background. Too much short acting and not enough long acting means that things can look normal 2 hours after a meal, but the blood glucose level will rise when the short acting has been used up. Too much long and not enough short will mean it's high a couple of hours after the meal, but more chance of being hypo before the next meal. Stick with it as you're being advised, and they'll get his doses sorted and he'll be a happier man. Oh, and test blood glucose as the specialists will be telling him. It's a faff, and a pain, but without the evidence they won't be able to get him sorted! Steve [/QUOTE]
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