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<blockquote data-quote="iHs" data-source="post: 43918" data-attributes="member: 8799"><p>Rach79</p><p></p><p>While you are eating low GI food like porridge, basmati rice, pasta etc all it will do is raise your blood sugar levels up and keep them up for longer than eating normal carb like bread, potatoes and such. Consultants advise folks to eat low GI food because they know that fast acting insulin should lower bg levels fairly quickly but some fast acting insulins are able to do this much more quickly than others. Unfortunately Novorapid because of its slightly slower action is not able to do the job as quickly as Apidra or Humalog.</p><p></p><p>If you are going to wait until July, then start the new year off right and just alter your diet. Normal food tends to make bg go up but usually fast acting insulin will send it back down within 2.5hrs because of the way this type of food is digested I guess.</p><p></p><p>It does take time using a meter, injecting bolus insulin - Novorapid, eating food, to work out where you are going wrong. We all learn through trial and error. Start by eating small amounts of carb and then see how high or low you are 2hrs after you eat. You can then work out whether to inject more Novo to get bg to lower or eat less carb. If you are bordering somewhere between 6 - 8 2hrs after you eat, then you will be going in the right direction. You may have to eat a small snack or you will be able to leave yourself go for another 2hrs. Again you can work out what to do yourself.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iHs, post: 43918, member: 8799"] Rach79 While you are eating low GI food like porridge, basmati rice, pasta etc all it will do is raise your blood sugar levels up and keep them up for longer than eating normal carb like bread, potatoes and such. Consultants advise folks to eat low GI food because they know that fast acting insulin should lower bg levels fairly quickly but some fast acting insulins are able to do this much more quickly than others. Unfortunately Novorapid because of its slightly slower action is not able to do the job as quickly as Apidra or Humalog. If you are going to wait until July, then start the new year off right and just alter your diet. Normal food tends to make bg go up but usually fast acting insulin will send it back down within 2.5hrs because of the way this type of food is digested I guess. It does take time using a meter, injecting bolus insulin - Novorapid, eating food, to work out where you are going wrong. We all learn through trial and error. Start by eating small amounts of carb and then see how high or low you are 2hrs after you eat. You can then work out whether to inject more Novo to get bg to lower or eat less carb. If you are bordering somewhere between 6 - 8 2hrs after you eat, then you will be going in the right direction. You may have to eat a small snack or you will be able to leave yourself go for another 2hrs. Again you can work out what to do yourself. [/QUOTE]
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