Bolus / QA question?

[mum2westiesGill]

For any type 1's who have injected up front / 15 mins before your meal and had your full dose, what do you do if you are then too full to finish your meal?

 

[Natalie123]

Are you carb counting? If you counted correctly and injected for it then you will probably go low later. Could you manage something sweet in a little while? Maybe some fruit, dried fruit is concentrated and wouldn't fill you up, or a sweet drink. I would be tempted to wait and see what happens before eating / drinking anything

 

[Robster65]

I'd prob do as natalie says.

But then I very very very rarely leave anything on a plate.🙄

Rob

 

[Pigeon]

I'd have orange juice or similar to top the carbs up to the value I injected for.

 

[Copepod]

Very rare for me not to finish what's on my plate, because I tend to estimate how much I want to eat at the same time as estimating carbohydrate content to calculate insulin dose, but if I get full while eating, then I concentrate on finishing the carbohydrate and leave other items. Or wait a bit and try again.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Chances are, if you have eaten most of the anticipated carbs that you could leave it 30 mins to an hour and have the rest of the carbs as a top-up then. At least, that would be OK for me (but then NovoRapid is usually fairly slow off the mark in my body)

 

[FM001]

Always clear the plate so never have this problem, if I did become full then it would have to be small glass of orange juice to compensate for the carbs on the plate.

 

[AlisonF]

I'd have a glass of milk. Or like Mike says, wait 30mins and see if I felt like eating something then.