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<blockquote data-quote="KK123" data-source="post: 2020104" data-attributes="member: 451727"><p>Not entirely. When you eat you have to try and match the amount of insulin you need with meals to what you are eating. In that respect you do 'watch' what you eat because the aim is to balance it with the insulin. Apart from that you need insulin between meals too (basal insulin), this is aimed at keeping you steady throughout the day as even when you are not eating your body releases glucose into the system and your levels rise without this basal insulin. Even when you really watch what you eat, the use of insulin adds a whole new level to management because you are trying to do the job of your pancreas, it is the lack of insulin that can send your friends levels up to over 30 (easily) and it is too much insulin that sends the levels plummeting. This is a very BASIC account but there is plenty more online if you want to know more. Just to add, it's probably not a great idea to assume your friend must have eaten 'something' bad to get levels so high, my Mum could eat a jacket potato and without insulin her levels would easily shoot up to the high 20s.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KK123, post: 2020104, member: 451727"] Not entirely. When you eat you have to try and match the amount of insulin you need with meals to what you are eating. In that respect you do 'watch' what you eat because the aim is to balance it with the insulin. Apart from that you need insulin between meals too (basal insulin), this is aimed at keeping you steady throughout the day as even when you are not eating your body releases glucose into the system and your levels rise without this basal insulin. Even when you really watch what you eat, the use of insulin adds a whole new level to management because you are trying to do the job of your pancreas, it is the lack of insulin that can send your friends levels up to over 30 (easily) and it is too much insulin that sends the levels plummeting. This is a very BASIC account but there is plenty more online if you want to know more. Just to add, it's probably not a great idea to assume your friend must have eaten 'something' bad to get levels so high, my Mum could eat a jacket potato and without insulin her levels would easily shoot up to the high 20s. [/QUOTE]
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