chocoholic
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I started reading this book a while back and got side-tracked and started reading something else. Having now gone back to it and started on the chapters about setting basal/bolus insulins, it makes very interesting reading. I tried matching insulin to carbs at the beginning of my changeover to an MDI regime but because I'm on very small amounts, I ended up asking and waiting several months for a half-unit pen for the Novorapid.Well, since I've had that and have been able to get more 'supposedly' perfect matches with carb. to insulin ratio, I have come to realise that the ratio I'm on is not working and the tables given in the aforementioned book would seem to agree with me. I did wonder. I think, in this interim period, I've been second-guessing how much I really need to inject but I always thought I was having more than the ratio that was given me.
I feel my head is swimming again and every time I read and re-read what I should be doing, it seems to go in one ear and out the other. When the changeover was done,my new insulin was given me with doses set but now I've read about getting the background insulin right before tackling the Novo. I think it's going to take me a while to sort out what is what.
I feel like you need to be a mathematician to work it all out, especially when you have to somehow work out how the ratio can change over the day or according to hormone levels, exercise etc.
What makes it harder is that when I asked for more test strips, whilst I assess what different foods do to me, I was told no because I could become obsessive about testing. :roll:
I feel as if I'm doing a bad doggy-paddle........desperately paddling away and not getting anywhere.
I think I need to go back to square one and work out if my Lantus is right and then slowly work out the Novorapid from scratch again.
Is it just me or has anyone else found it so hard to work out dosages when changing to MDI regime?
P.S. I bought myself Gary Taubes book today....."The Diet Delusion". Reminder to self.......don't start dipping into that until 'Think Like a Pancreas' is finished. It's a bad habit of mine.....dipping into a new book that looks interesting before finishing an already started book.
I feel my head is swimming again and every time I read and re-read what I should be doing, it seems to go in one ear and out the other. When the changeover was done,my new insulin was given me with doses set but now I've read about getting the background insulin right before tackling the Novo. I think it's going to take me a while to sort out what is what.
I feel like you need to be a mathematician to work it all out, especially when you have to somehow work out how the ratio can change over the day or according to hormone levels, exercise etc.
What makes it harder is that when I asked for more test strips, whilst I assess what different foods do to me, I was told no because I could become obsessive about testing. :roll:
I feel as if I'm doing a bad doggy-paddle........desperately paddling away and not getting anywhere.
I think I need to go back to square one and work out if my Lantus is right and then slowly work out the Novorapid from scratch again.
Is it just me or has anyone else found it so hard to work out dosages when changing to MDI regime?
P.S. I bought myself Gary Taubes book today....."The Diet Delusion". Reminder to self.......don't start dipping into that until 'Think Like a Pancreas' is finished. It's a bad habit of mine.....dipping into a new book that looks interesting before finishing an already started book.
