GingerBabyMama
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Hello everyone!
I'm new here so please be kind
apologies if this has been discussed before, but it's a tricky thing to search for. (FYI I'm Type 1, have been for abour 6 years, I'm 24 and pregnant with my first baby - woop! I take Lantus Glargine and Novorapid. I carb count but haven't done DAFNE)
So my question is this: Why are after-meal blood sugar targets so low if insulin takes so long to work?
In case that's not clear - my diabetes / prenatal team monitors me very closely now that I am "with child". Apparently I should be around 6 or 7 two hours after eating. But NovoRapid can take up to 5 hours to finish working. So if I'm 6 two hours after eating, aren't I just going to keep going lower? I'm getting frustrated because before lunch my levels were in the 5s, I took my insulin 15 minutes early and ate my lunch at midday. I did a blood test at 3.45pm and I'm 9. WHY! I took a correction dose, but I'm thinking that if the first injection hasn't stopped working then I'm going to be low later on. Would you have corrected for this?
Perhaps I simply need to adjust my lunch-time ratio? I'm usually 3:1 breakfast, 1:1 lunch and tea. I have needed to increase my glargine this week so perhaps my novo needs to follow suit.
I'm usually stable but I'm getting to the point in my pregnancy where I'm being thrown off track.
Sorry for the rant! Any help / advice would be fantastic!
x
I'm new here so please be kind
apologies if this has been discussed before, but it's a tricky thing to search for. (FYI I'm Type 1, have been for abour 6 years, I'm 24 and pregnant with my first baby - woop! I take Lantus Glargine and Novorapid. I carb count but haven't done DAFNE)So my question is this: Why are after-meal blood sugar targets so low if insulin takes so long to work?
In case that's not clear - my diabetes / prenatal team monitors me very closely now that I am "with child". Apparently I should be around 6 or 7 two hours after eating. But NovoRapid can take up to 5 hours to finish working. So if I'm 6 two hours after eating, aren't I just going to keep going lower? I'm getting frustrated because before lunch my levels were in the 5s, I took my insulin 15 minutes early and ate my lunch at midday. I did a blood test at 3.45pm and I'm 9. WHY! I took a correction dose, but I'm thinking that if the first injection hasn't stopped working then I'm going to be low later on. Would you have corrected for this?
Perhaps I simply need to adjust my lunch-time ratio? I'm usually 3:1 breakfast, 1:1 lunch and tea. I have needed to increase my glargine this week so perhaps my novo needs to follow suit.
I'm usually stable but I'm getting to the point in my pregnancy where I'm being thrown off track.
Sorry for the rant! Any help / advice would be fantastic!
x
