right dose

[dean123]

hi can you please help me, how i can tell what the correct dose of my backing injection is(lantus) thanks Dean

 

[jopar]

A fasting test!

If it's set correctly then when you fast it will stay within +/- of your starting point...

Hopefully CarbRok will see this, as she's got a pretty good link to how to set up and carry out a fasting test, that helps avoid the skewing of results from quick insulin or slow adsorbing foods..

 

[noblehead]

As Jo says you need to do some fasting tests, take a read of the following which explains all about it:

http://www.integrateddiabetes.com/p_basaltest.shtml


To convert mg/dl to mmol/l use the following:

http://www.soc-bdr.org/rds/authors/unit ... ex_en.html