CARB Ideas to go with a salad please

im going to try the suggestions so far
 
gail2 said:
to be honest i dont know why think it was because i had hypos over weekend see 3,9 advice needed thread i started
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OK - I am not an insulin user but I can see why it was suggested. Go with the suggestions and move forward with care seems to be the best idea.
 
Satan’s little helper said:
Hello @gail2 , @rebrascora ’s idea for croutons in a salad is a good shout. You could try sweetcorn? Which should be easy. It comes tinned & off the cob. Though, suggesting to up carbs in response to something that could be resolved by adjusting insulin dosage to me seems a step back to the fixed shots of the porcine insulin I had as a kid 40 years ago?
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i love sweetcorn croutons have to be chunky and garlicky mmmm
i think its gonna have to be a case of my insulin being reduced to be honest will have to see what the Bertram center at the hospital say
 
gail2 said:
i love sweetcorn croutons have to be chunky and garlicky mmmm
i think its gonna have to be a case of my insulin being reduced to be honest will have to see what the Bertram center at the hospital say
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Just replied to your other topic on your question about insulin. Good luck at the hospital.
 
gail2 said:
i love sweetcorn croutons have to be chunky and garlicky mmmm
i think its gonna have to be a case of my insulin being reduced to be honest will have to see what the Bertram center at the hospital say
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It may be worth you asking about having both a basal and bolus insulin so your basal insulin is not trying to cope with your meals.
 
Satan’s little helper said:
Just replied to your other topic on your question about insulin. Good luck at the hospital.
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dont have an appointment the nurses are going to inform them of currant status of BG levels
 
Leadinglights said:
It may be worth you asking about having both a basal and bolus insulin so your basal insulin is not trying to cope with your meals.
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due to my past issues with oding including my insulin i dont think this would be possible and im being honest here
PS i would never recomend oding on insulin its not a good idea but i have/had serve and enduring mental hearth issues
 
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Satan’s little helper said:
Hello @gail2 , @rebrascora ’s idea for croutons in a salad is a good shout. You could try sweetcorn? Which should be easy. It comes tinned & off the cob. Though, suggesting to up carbs in response to something that could be resolved by adjusting insulin dosage to me seems a step back to the fixed shots of the porcine insulin I had as a kid 40 years ago?
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Porcine insulin is crucial for some people and still very much in use today. We need a variety of insulins available for those who can’t tolerate human or analogues.

A number of Type 2s are on fixed doses of human insulin. Fixed doses aren’t linked to animal insulin. I was on fixed doses at diagnosis and I started on human insulin. More than that, @Gail is using her basal both as background and to mop up carbs, so adjustments might not be quite as easy as adjusting a bolus insulin.
 
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gail2 said:
i normaly have a cooked dinner and a salad for tea. been told by my manager that i need to have more carbs wth the salad. any ideas? pr something u dont have to cook or something that ca be done in micro
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Sorry who is this “manager?” Are they part of your medical team? Someone at work?

Did they explain why you need more carbs? Is it to avoid hypos or for some other reason? How many more?

It’s relevant to the suggestions people might make
 
Dragonheart said:
Sorry who is this “manager?” Are they part of your medical team? Someone at work?

Did they explain why you need more carbs? Is it to avoid hypos or for some other reason? How many more?

It’s relevant to the suggestions people might make
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This will be the manager of the residential home @gail2 lives in.
 
I can understand why this might be used as a stop gap situation until the insulin dosing situation can be addressed and since the staff at the home are not able to adjust doses then it does sort of make sense to have more carbs in the evening until medical decisions on dosing can be made. I think many of us take it for granted that we would adjust our own doses but neither Gail nor the manager or carers are in a position to make that decision. I think it would also be reasonable to expect Gail to have her own hypo treatments, just like the rest of us, but if Gail is expecting the carers to provide hypo treatment and in another thread she describes them going and getting 2 bananas to treat her hypo and not retesting for an hour, then that seems a poor management of the situation, so it needs to be clarified whether Gail should be providing her own hypo treatments and provided with a meter and test strips to test herself, rather than carers needing to do that, when no doubt they have many other residents needs to see to. It just seems that there are some grey areas with regard to her diabetes that need to be resolved, rather than the manager being at fault as such. Most of us here are very independent, but Gail's situation is quite different.
 
It might also be that the manager is following advice from elsewhere rather than making medical/diet judgements themselves.
 
gail2 said:
i normaly have a cooked dinner and a salad for tea. been told by my manager that i need to have more carbs wth the salad. any ideas? pr something u dont have to cook or something that ca be done in micro
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