Hi everyone - I've recently been put onto a new monitor (The accuchek aviva expert) which is great because once it's all set up properly it should be a lot easier to manage carb counting etc and i may finally be able to get my levels vaguely under control!
I had it set up at my check up at the hospital, and they put me on 2 units of humalog per 10 carbs just as a starting point so that we could go from there, and i'm seeing them again in january to see how it's going.
But - I'd like to reduce the amount I do to 1 1/2 units per 10 for my evening meal, because I've been having hypos every night and in the past I did less units at night because of the same problem (- but don't think it's the lantus as it seems to be working okay during the day and I used to be on higher levels of it/lower humalog and not experience the hypos?)
But I can't remember how to use the time blocks and obviously as it's christmas time my diabetes nurses will be off! So I thought I'd ask here - I could just do some guesswork & reduce the amount I do by a few units, but then my results aren't going to be very clear in January.
Does anyone have one and understand the time blocks? How would I set it up so that it's just my evening meal I do less amounts for? (I usually eat around 9pm but can be a lot earlier or a bit later so it's quite varied!)
Would I put a time block in for say... 18:00 - 06:00 as that is evening meal at its earliest, & overnight? or would it be 18:00 to 22:00 ish which is the gap where I'd actually eat?
Eek, that was quite babbly - hope it made a little bit of sense!
Thanks in advance (and merry xmas!) x
I had it set up at my check up at the hospital, and they put me on 2 units of humalog per 10 carbs just as a starting point so that we could go from there, and i'm seeing them again in january to see how it's going.
But - I'd like to reduce the amount I do to 1 1/2 units per 10 for my evening meal, because I've been having hypos every night and in the past I did less units at night because of the same problem (- but don't think it's the lantus as it seems to be working okay during the day and I used to be on higher levels of it/lower humalog and not experience the hypos?)
But I can't remember how to use the time blocks and obviously as it's christmas time my diabetes nurses will be off! So I thought I'd ask here - I could just do some guesswork & reduce the amount I do by a few units, but then my results aren't going to be very clear in January.
Does anyone have one and understand the time blocks? How would I set it up so that it's just my evening meal I do less amounts for? (I usually eat around 9pm but can be a lot earlier or a bit later so it's quite varied!)
Would I put a time block in for say... 18:00 - 06:00 as that is evening meal at its earliest, & overnight? or would it be 18:00 to 22:00 ish which is the gap where I'd actually eat?
Eek, that was quite babbly - hope it made a little bit of sense!
Thanks in advance (and merry xmas!) x
