Hello. I'm fairly new to this forum but have decided to dedicate myself to my diabetes a little more and monitor it more closely. Anyway I've got my background insulin sorted - if i fast my blood sugar dips slightly but stays at around 6 or 7 throughout the day. I just have one question. If I have lunch and give myself a shot of insulin, there's a HUGE spike - levels in excess of 10, have been as high as 17! Then my blood sugar goes back to normality within about an hour of my evening meal. Is this normal? Am I doing the wrong ratio of carb:insulin? Perhaps the background insulin is wrong? Perhaps this is an effect of levemir's 18 hour effect or something??
So take your pick with regards to what seems right and offer me some advice. What I usually stupidly do is see it hugely high and do a correction dose and just before my next meal my blood sugars low.
Tanks
So take your pick with regards to what seems right and offer me some advice. What I usually stupidly do is see it hugely high and do a correction dose and just before my next meal my blood sugars low.
Tanks