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Message: <blockquote data-quote="iHs" data-source="post: 250169" data-attributes="member: 8799">HiSo that you dont have too many high and low bg levels instead of using just guesswork, start adding up the carb content of the food you are about to eat and then use an insulin to carb ratio.  Adjust the ratio to what your bg levels are before breakfast, mid morning, before lunch, mid afternoon, before evening meal and before bed.  Get yourself 2 insulin pens that can deliver insulin in half unit increments.  People tend to start with a ratio of 1u to 10g carb and then adjust it.  It might need to go to 1.5u to 10g carb or even 2.0u to 10g carb.  If it turns out that you need something inbetween  then a ratio such as 1.0u to 8,9,11,12,13,14 grams of carb can be used as well.  Carb ratios are not that difficult to work out as long you can write down in a bg diary your bg results, the amount of carb that you eat and the insulin youve injected to achieve the bg results.  You just keep adjusting the ratio until your bg levels start to even out more without going up down  all the time.</blockquote>

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