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A brief look at my bgl's from the last few days

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I don't know if I've done right or wrong and now that I'm getting better with all my maths tuition 🙂 I've replied to the email with.....

1.5 units per 10 grams of carbs would be a lot more insulin than 1 unit per 8 grams of carbs though

For 1.5 units per 10 grams of carbs (1.5:10)
36g of carbs for the meal divided by 10g = 3.6 x 1.5 = 5.4 units of insulin

For 1 unit per 8 grams of carbs (1:8)
36g of carbs for the meal divided by 8g = 4.5 units of insulin

so I would've thought the 1:8 would be much better than the 1.5:10
 
I think her suggestion is a bit too extremem personally! xx
 
I don't know if I've done right or wrong and now that I'm getting better with all my maths tuition 🙂 I've replied to the email with.....

1.5 units per 10 grams of carbs would be a lot more insulin than 1 unit per 8 grams of carbs though

For 1.5 units per 10 grams of carbs (1.5:10)
36g of carbs for the meal divided by 10g = 3.6 x 1.5 = 5.4 units of insulin

For 1 unit per 8 grams of carbs (1:8)
36g of carbs for the meal divided by 8g = 4.5 units of insulin

so I would've thought the 1:8 would be much better than the 1.5:10
Good reply!!
 
I think her suggestion is a bit too extremem personally! xx
Thank you @Kaylz and no wonder she's said to watch out for all the hypos lol lol lol..... xx
 
Soooo..... what were you at lunch time? lol

Let us know what your DSN has to say to your reply xx
 
Soooo..... what were you at lunch time? lol

Let us know what your DSN has to say to your reply xx
Ermmm well it was a massive 14.2!! Obviously I did a correction because it was over 10mmol - I did a correction on waking this morning because it was 11.7 so thought I'll correct now instead of leaving it until breakfast time - also there was more than 4 hours between the 2 corrections.

Yes I will let you know what my DSN says. xx
 
I got my reply from my earlier email with the maths tuition in for my DSN re the suggestion of changing to 1.5 units:10g of carbs

Sorry Gill,
Did think it was a funny amount , yes reducing the carbs versus insulin to .8 is grand

It's the weather , it's been a long day
 
Hope it works well for you Gill xx
 
Hope it works well for you Gill xx
Thank you but I'm not sure what to do now because today has been a day of hypers and corrections all day
11.7 waking and a correction done at 7:47am - this level was probably my own fault because I think I overdid the carbs at bedtime
14.2 at lunchtime - my usual lunchtime hyper just recently - correction done at 14:29pm so 6 hours between the two corrections
but then another hyper of 10.7 at teatime which is unusual but because it was over 10mmol I did a correction at 18:31pm so 4 hours after the lunchtime correction
Also I don't know whether 1:8 or 1:9 is best
 
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These are the settings that interest me Gill

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Since you have decided that only correcting over 10mmol/L works better for you, and avoids hypos, I think if you adjust these ranges to 5-10 instead of 5-8 you might not get the corrections recommended before you actually want them?
 
These are the settings that interest me Gill

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Since you have decided that only correcting over 10mmol/L works better for you, and avoids hypos, I think if you adjust these ranges to 5-10 instead of 5-8 you might not get the corrections recommended before you actually want them?
I'll give it a try - I've got it set at that ie 5-8 because 5-8 is my target range
 
I think Mike's point is that because 8 is your target range then it will suggest a correction if you are over 8 but your only correcting if over 10 xx
 
I've changed my target range now from 5-8 to 5-10

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let us know if this means you have to ignore suggested corrections less often - which might be less stressful!
 
let us know if this means you have to ignore suggested corrections less often - which might be less stressful!
I've noticed that it's still suggesting corrections on bgls which are below 10 - I'm not sure how often so I'll make a note of these occasions and get back to you if that's ok
 
I've noticed that it's still suggesting corrections on bgls which are below 10 - I'm not sure how often so I'll make a note of these occasions and get back to you if that's ok

Ah OK. I’m not sure how the mysugr bolus calculator is configured. It’s quite possible that it calculates correction doses with the intention of steering your BG to the middle of your range (this is the method I find most helpful), rather than the outer edges?
 
Ah OK. I’m not sure how the mysugr bolus calculator is configured. It’s quite possible that it calculates correction doses with the intention of steering your BG to the middle of your range (this is the method I find most helpful), rather than the outer edges?
I think that's what it tries to do too - what would you do if it was you?


This was lunchtime yesterday and no previous insulin working - because I follow the DSN's advice of only correcting over 10mmol I was going to knock the advised 1u correction off which then meant just having 5u but because my carb amount was 51g and lunchtime ratio 1:10 I did 5.5u of insulin - I was hypo at teatime 3.3
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This was breakfast this morning bgl was 9.5
I've probably made a wrong choice because I chose not to do the correction of 0.5u which then gave me 5u and because that didn't sound right I just did 4.5u of insulin
but then I worked out
38g of carbs ÷ 8 (1u:8g) = 4.75u so near enough to 5u so basically everything has gone wrong this morning :(
Screenshot_20210801-094130_mySugr.jpg
 
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This was lunchtime yesterday and no previous insulin working - because I follow the DSN's advice of only correcting over 10mmol I was going to knock the advised 1u correction off which then meant just having 5u but because my carb amount was 51g and lunchtime ratio 1:10 I did 5.5u of insulin - I was hypo at teatime 3.3
Screenshot_20210731-141054_mySugr.jpg

This was breakfast this morning bgl was 9.5
I've probably made a wrong choice because I chose not to do the correction of 0.5u which then gave me 5u and because that didn't sound right I just did 4.5u of insulin
but then I worked out
38g of carbs ÷ 8 (1u:8g) = 4.75u so near enough to 5u so basically everything has gone wrong this morning :(
Screenshot_20210801-094130_mySugr.jpg
 
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