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<blockquote data-quote="KK123" data-source="post: 2443022" data-attributes="member: 451727"><p>Hi there, I don't know what type you are or whether my hypothesis works for both but you say you were at 7.9 and then decided to take a correction 2 units? Why was that when you were in the 7s? On a course I attended, they said that if you 'over correct' by which they meant took units of insulin to bring you down below a level that was 'fine' for you at that time, then your body thinks it's going low too fast and releases a surge of glucose from the liver in panic. So it ends up having the opposite effect. What are your glucose level targets if you don't mind me asking, the problem with first using a Libre et al, is that you can easily become obsessed with the immediate numbers and start to correct as soon as you see a number higher than you'd like, you can end up going low & high for ever that way. </p><p></p><p>When I started my Libre I checked about 60 times a day and it was extremely hard to see a reading of 10 say in between or just after a meal, and to leave it for another hour. When I did though it had always come down by itself meaning had I rushed to take more insulin I would have hypo'd...then had to take carbs...then gone high...then corrected...well you get my drift.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KK123, post: 2443022, member: 451727"] Hi there, I don't know what type you are or whether my hypothesis works for both but you say you were at 7.9 and then decided to take a correction 2 units? Why was that when you were in the 7s? On a course I attended, they said that if you 'over correct' by which they meant took units of insulin to bring you down below a level that was 'fine' for you at that time, then your body thinks it's going low too fast and releases a surge of glucose from the liver in panic. So it ends up having the opposite effect. What are your glucose level targets if you don't mind me asking, the problem with first using a Libre et al, is that you can easily become obsessed with the immediate numbers and start to correct as soon as you see a number higher than you'd like, you can end up going low & high for ever that way. When I started my Libre I checked about 60 times a day and it was extremely hard to see a reading of 10 say in between or just after a meal, and to leave it for another hour. When I did though it had always come down by itself meaning had I rushed to take more insulin I would have hypo'd...then had to take carbs...then gone high...then corrected...well you get my drift. [/QUOTE]
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