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<blockquote data-quote="Jeremy.M" data-source="post: 2404415" data-attributes="member: 522049"><p>[USER=507802]@Hertfordshiremum[/USER] I've ended up checking every half hour just to be safe, with a bottle of OJ and a measuring glass to be extra safe and precise. Lol.</p><p></p><p>Looks like my corrections seem to be working in my favour this time, as I seem to have remained in the low 7's for my last couple checks over the last 40 minutes, but I'm still going to keep an eye out as I've read / have been told that it can continue to work for up to 4 hours. I dropped from 13.5 to 8 mmol/l fairly quickly, which is why I'm going to continue checking for a couple hours. I'm absolutely not going to take another dose of rapid-acting insulin this close to bed. I ended up doing about 6 units worth of corrections over the last several hours, so it looks like 1 unit = -1.5 mmol\l might be my standard? Seems a bit low of a ratio compared to the suggested standard for a 5'9 male sitting at 125-128 pounds. I still don't know how my protein and fat intake affected things though.</p><p></p><p>This sucks. I've been trying to eat more because I've been underweight for quite a while (125 - 128 now, but was 116-120 for nearly 8 months prior to this), but perhaps I should try smaller, more frequent meals rather than attempting to shove 20g of carbs, 25-30g of protein and 25-35g of fat into one meal 3x a day when I have yet to get a passable grasp on dosing for meals and corrections.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jeremy.M, post: 2404415, member: 522049"] [USER=507802]@Hertfordshiremum[/USER] I've ended up checking every half hour just to be safe, with a bottle of OJ and a measuring glass to be extra safe and precise. Lol. Looks like my corrections seem to be working in my favour this time, as I seem to have remained in the low 7's for my last couple checks over the last 40 minutes, but I'm still going to keep an eye out as I've read / have been told that it can continue to work for up to 4 hours. I dropped from 13.5 to 8 mmol/l fairly quickly, which is why I'm going to continue checking for a couple hours. I'm absolutely not going to take another dose of rapid-acting insulin this close to bed. I ended up doing about 6 units worth of corrections over the last several hours, so it looks like 1 unit = -1.5 mmol\l might be my standard? Seems a bit low of a ratio compared to the suggested standard for a 5'9 male sitting at 125-128 pounds. I still don't know how my protein and fat intake affected things though. This sucks. I've been trying to eat more because I've been underweight for quite a while (125 - 128 now, but was 116-120 for nearly 8 months prior to this), but perhaps I should try smaller, more frequent meals rather than attempting to shove 20g of carbs, 25-30g of protein and 25-35g of fat into one meal 3x a day when I have yet to get a passable grasp on dosing for meals and corrections. [/QUOTE]
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