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<blockquote data-quote="iHs" data-source="post: 971134" data-attributes="member: 8799"><p>Hi</p><p></p><p>Your bg levels will only get better controlled when you adjust the amount of food that you eat (the carbohydrate content) at different times of the day. This will work ok with the twice daily insulin that you are using at present. Ideally, you need to bg test before food and then by adjusting the carb to be eaten, bg test again 2.5hrs later to see if the carb content needs altering again.</p><p>If you practice the little but often way of eating food with carb in it, you will be ok with your bg levels. Use the basic rule of using targets like 5-7mmol before a main meal and then 8-10mmol 2.5hrs later. If bg is less than 7.5mmol 2.5hrs after eating food, then eat a small biscuit to make sure that bg doesn't drop too low by the time 4hrs has gone by. Eventually, you will find your own amounts of carb to be eaten yourself using a bg meter and writing the amounts of carb down on paper or in a bg log book. You wont always have to bg test more than 6 times per day once you find the correct amount of carb. I think I only tested about 3-4 but tested a lot more to find the correct amounts of carb that I needed to eat initially and practiced self discipline keeping to the correct carb amounts.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="iHs, post: 971134, member: 8799"] Hi Your bg levels will only get better controlled when you adjust the amount of food that you eat (the carbohydrate content) at different times of the day. This will work ok with the twice daily insulin that you are using at present. Ideally, you need to bg test before food and then by adjusting the carb to be eaten, bg test again 2.5hrs later to see if the carb content needs altering again. If you practice the little but often way of eating food with carb in it, you will be ok with your bg levels. Use the basic rule of using targets like 5-7mmol before a main meal and then 8-10mmol 2.5hrs later. If bg is less than 7.5mmol 2.5hrs after eating food, then eat a small biscuit to make sure that bg doesn't drop too low by the time 4hrs has gone by. Eventually, you will find your own amounts of carb to be eaten yourself using a bg meter and writing the amounts of carb down on paper or in a bg log book. You wont always have to bg test more than 6 times per day once you find the correct amount of carb. I think I only tested about 3-4 but tested a lot more to find the correct amounts of carb that I needed to eat initially and practiced self discipline keeping to the correct carb amounts. [/QUOTE]
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