and a question re last nights dinner

[SilentAssassin1642]

Put this here so more woulf see it and help...

Last night for dinner I had 150g of pasta with chicken, mayo and sausage. I worked out that for everything it should have been on a basis of a 1:8 ratio 16u worth of insulin (split dose)

Pre dinner I was something like 11. So I had 10u (thats the 8 plus correction)

And yet again...very bizaarely no major rises. I ended up going to about 13.0 or so five or six hours after and popping a couple of units in for that.

What's going wrong??? Do my ratios need tweaking???

 

[sofaraway]

Maybe I have missed other posts but I am not sure why you halved the amount of insulin you worked out you needed? If you think that 1:8g is too much insulin and you needed to cut it in half then yes you do need to tweek that ratio.

 

[SilentAssassin1642]

Maybe I have missed other posts but I am not sure why you halved the amount of insulin you worked out you needed? If you think that 1:8g is too much insulin and you needed to cut it in half then yes you do need to tweek that ratio.

i split doses with pasta 🙂 I was going to have 8u before and then 8u 2-3 hours after...but levels were pretty ok

 

[sofaraway]

Ok that makes sense now, but you found you didn't need the rest. As you raised to 13, then you probably needed some of that 8 units but not all of it. If you were 13 5-6 hours later then maybe you needed a few of those units at 4 hours or so.
getting these splits worked out is tricky, working out what % to split initially and then when to give the rest.