What's going on here then ?

Right folks, I am very confused with my bloods and insulin.

yesterday I woke to the usual 10.7 ish, had nothing for breckfast and no insulin ( normal start for me), I ended up going for a coffee round the corner at my mums house, next thing I know my mum has made me 2 hollands steak and kidney pies and a load of deep fried chips. I ate it all but did not have my insulin with me, so said I would go straight home and have it. On the way home I got a phone call to pick up my kids as it was teaming with rain, one thing lead to another and it was teatime. We had visitors in the house when I got home and my wife had done me 2 hollands steak and kidney pies. ( so not to offend her, I never metioned I already had the once that day ) so I ate them, but did not have anything else with them.
Then the brother in law turned up and we started chatting as he does not visit much. and I totaly forgot about insulin.

So 9pm I am watching a film and eating a pack of crisps and a banana, I thought Oh my god, INSULIN.
So I did my sugars and it was 23.6. I took 34unit of levemir (my normal evening shot) and worked out a correction dose of novorapid to 7units. (bare in mind my normal total daily dose it around 54).

I got up this morning with a 5.8 ( a lot lower then normal )

I did not do more pysical activity then normal so, why did such a small dose bring it down so much ?

Ah... i didn't know that.

And today I have had my best whole day ever.

all day in SINGLE figures. thats a first for me. :wink:

lilibet said:

Well done getting the single figures, though Ive got to say that as I read your post I was thinking EEK to your diet but appreciate its each to their own in terms of management. To have eaten pie crusts, chips, crisps and bananas and only need 7u novo to tackle it is astounding to me. In saying that, maybe your background insulin also helped a bit.

Otherwise, must just be that you are more insulin sensitive at night and if you woke to 23 (werent you thirsty as hell, and peeing ?!) then that same 7 might have done nowt. When you took 7, how did you work out it was going to be 7? Presumably you've got a correction dose ratio ie 1u lowers it by x, so if your ratios are correct then its not really too much of surprise it comes back to what it should surely?

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It was just a good day, it's back to rubbish again today. I worked the correction dose at 1unit - 2mmol.

It is funny how I never took insulin all day, then one tiny correction dose and it fixed it. but that was a one off, I think.

No I didn't get the thirst or the peeing. I don't seem to get that anymore since I started insulin, and I can be at 23 - 25 and not even notice, I also don't get keytones. And I thought everyone got that at above 18-20.

I go on wednesday to start carb counting so I will hopefully get better control.