Hey,
@bobneil , I posted on this thread a couple of days ago with a dubious analogy about scales and shoogly tables. Here's another one.
Whenever I start anything new, whether it's a job, sport, hobby, I've often found I end up learning just as much from the mistakes I've made as from the bits I get right. I look back and think, right, what went wrong there and see what I can figure out from that for the future.
It's pretty much the same with T1D. Over time, you just kind of acquire this intuition based on past mistakes/successes, so that while a newbie might say this much insulin for this much food looking purely at carb count and ratios, you'll start to factor in other stuff (which, I suppose actually is an intrinsic part of carb counting anyway), sometimes consciously, sometimes unconsciously, like how have your sugars generally been running over the last few days variability-wise, is there a chance of after-drop based on exercise earlier in the day, how much exercise do you expect to do later in the day, has there been any insulin-stacking, how long should the pre-bolus be, is the meal low or high GI (and GI load), are you trending down or up or stable and at what rate, is it a hot/cold day or not etc. etc. Hell, even air pressure is thought to affect matters but getting a portable barometer would be taking it too far...
There's been thousands of times I've been about to inject and a strict carb count/ratio analysis says X units, but past experience says, nah, let's tweak that up or down a bit based on past experience with those sort of variables.
Anyway, thought I'd throw in my tuppence worth, because you've expressed a bit of frustration about the hypos and what you feel are disappointing results when you've calculated well, but I wanted to make the point that in these early days, you'll be learning more than you know from what seem like mistakes. And you've maybe got honeymoon period throwing a spanner in the works too.
It's clear from your posts that you are sitting down and analysing what you're doing and what responses you're getting, and are willing to experiment. That'll stand you in good stead for the future.
