Hypo - Carbs?

[newbs]

Carb counting going quite well but currently my BG is 2.0 and I'm not quite sure why. Calculated carbs for tea to 84g and using 2:10 ratio injected 22 units. Ate meal 1.5 hrs ago. Am wondering if I did something wrong or if it is just an unexplained low. (Tea was sausage, egg, hash browns, peas and crusty roll).

 

[sasha1]

Hi newbs ...

Im not sure on the carb counting ratio, as I dont carb count for nathan (Type 1) aged 16.

As I'm sure you are aware please go and get, hypostop, coke ... some for of sugar, as soos as poss, then when blood comes back up have some longer acting carbs, eg, toast. 🙂

Im sure you have done nothing wrong, diabetes is sent to try us and keep us on our toes.

Heidi
xx

 

[sasha1]

Hi again newbs,

If I remember hash browns are a quick acting carb, but you may get a late spike from the peas. I am only going on the experience I have with Nathan, and everyone is different, as diabetes is an individual condition

Heidi
xx🙂

 

[Ellie Jones]

It's difficult to say,

Depending on you pre-meal BG and the drop you've had..

You meal would have had a highish fat content, so could slow down the asorbtion of you carbs... But with bread roll this is unlikely unless you were very close to 4mmol/l..

Other places to look/think about

What exercise you've done today, something different or at an more intense level than normal, and haven't made a allowance for lag time effec!

This can either be before or after you've eaten.. or perhaps it might have been done yesterday!

Did you eat at a different time than normal.

More often than not, the actual basal line is wavey, hence some of the reason of different carb/insulin ratio's during the day.. So eating at a different time of the day to norm, could have meant that you injected at the top of the wave, and when you got to the bottom, you were swimining in insulin!

If no apparent reason for tonights hypo's, it might be just one of the things a one off blip that we sometimes get.. or called in my family the 'shoulder shrugger'

 

[Robster65]

Hi newbs

I'm not quite sure how you arrived at 22u from 84g using a 2:10 ratio.

By my reckoning, your carbs were 84/10 = 8.4 then *2 would be 16.8, so about 17u of insulin.

Unless I've misunderstood.

Rob

 

[SusieGriff]

Hi newbs

I'm not quite sure how you arrived at 22u from 84g using a 2:10 ratio.

By my reckoning, your carbs were 84/10 = 8.4 then *2 would be 16.8, so about 17u of insulin.

Unless I've misunderstood.

Rob

Yes, I was thinking the same, I do 1:10 and would have rounded down to 8, but 2:10 double it, to 16, or rounded up 17. as Robster said.

 

[newbs]

Hi newbs

I'm not quite sure how you arrived at 22u from 84g using a 2:10 ratio.

By my reckoning, your carbs were 84/10 = 8.4 then *2 would be 16.8, so about 17u of insulin.

Unless I've misunderstood.

Rob

Ah, thank you, now I can see where the problem lies - maths never was my strong point 😱 I had originally calculated with a dessert planned, made the decision not to have dessert premeal but still injected the 22 units. Oh dear. Silly me!

 

[Robster65]

We use a little app thingy on the ipod touch. I think you can get them for other devices too.
It works out your bolus if you input the carbs and your ratios plus your premeal BG.

That way you don't need to do the maths every time. I often 'adjust' the result depending on what I'm doing afterwards.🙂

Rob

 

[Robster65]

The important fact is that you've over injected by 5u, so you'll need to eat about 25g carbs to avoid a real crash in your BG, including what you've already had.🙂

I think that's right anyway.🙄

Rob

 

[C*5_Dodger]

Carb counting going quite well but currently my BG is 2.0 and I'm not quite sure why. Calculated carbs for tea to 84g and using 2:10 ratio injected 22 units. Ate meal 1.5 hrs ago. Am wondering if I did something wrong or if it is just an unexplained low. (Tea was sausage, egg, hash browns, peas and crusty roll).

Dear newbs,

Am I correct in thinking that your ratio means for each 5g of carbs you use 1 unit of insulin? If so then 84g of carbs would require 16.8 say 17 units of insulin to the nearest whole number.

Edit:Oops, I should have read the earlier posts! - Sorry

Regards Dodger