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lynbrown

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i saw the doc at my Diabates clinic this morning and he gave me a bit advice but I cannot recall exactly what he said. It was to do with adjusting my insulin, if it went too high. There was something about 3 in it but the details are fuzzy. Can anyone help?
 
I would get back in touch with doc to double check but could be to do with correction dose ? 1 unit dropping you 3 ?


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To work out your correction dose divide 100 by your Total Daily Dose of insulin (basal and bolus) and the number you are left with is how how much 1 unit of insulin will drop your bg by.
 
No, thats not it, thanks anyway. It involved adding my carbs, dividing by 10 to ascertain how much insulin to inject. I think he was telling me how much insulin to take if I recorded a high reading on my meter. For example, if my carb intake was 60, I would need 6 of insulin. But if my blood reading was high at , say, 15, I would need more insulin. Thats where the '3' came into the equation, but I just cannot recall what he meant! In future, I will write everything down.
 
lynbrown said:
No, thats not it, thanks anyway. It involved adding my carbs, dividing by 10 to ascertain how much insulin to inject. I think he was telling me how much insulin to take if I recorded a high reading on my meter. For example, if my carb intake was 60, I would need 6 of insulin. But if my blood reading was high at , say, 15, I would need more insulin. Thats where the '3' came into the equation, but I just cannot recall what he meant! In future, I will write everything down.
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Think it may have been about your insulin to carb ratio then ? 1 unit of insulin per 10g of carbs. That's what I use. The 3 then must be what your correction dose is. If you eat 100g of carbs, you inject 10 units of insulin. If you test before eating and you are higher than you'd like ( 9mmol for instance ), you'd inject the 10units for the 100g of carbs, plus 1 extra unit because you are 3 higher than target ?
 
So grateful, that sounds about right. Many thanks for taking the time to answer. I feel a bit more calm now!
 
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