corrections at bedtime?

[Dory]

Laura I use a Roche Accuchek Spirit combi pump.

to quote mike: TCH diabetes indeed! like a petulant child (although, unlike diabetes, children end up with predictable behaviours.... 😉 )!

 

[DeusXM]

I might need to refer to my book at home but I'm sure DAFNE just had a blanket rule for corrections, that 1u would bring most people down by 2-3mmol (obviously this needs worked out) but not that it changed at different times of the day?

That's because DAFNE's done as a one-size-fits-all thing. It's basic logic. If you assume that food item A has the potential to raise your BG by 6mmol/l with no insulin, and that at 9am you need 5u to cover this, and then at 6pm you would need 10u, then logically the amount of insulin you need as a correction factor must change too.

I suspect if you raise this issue with a diabetes nurse they'll do the usual trick of telling to not be so silly and listen to them and their half a day worth of CPD they do each year, rather than people who have actual diabetes.

 

[trophywench]

Not a DSN Deus, that's a University degree jobby. And surely if a proper DSN was spouting that kind of nonsense, at least one of their patients would have explained it to em? I certainly would, but of course wouldn't ever need to with mine - her being married the last 25+ years to a T1 !!!!!

Surgery nurse, yes LOL

PS I thought the premise of DAFNE was really sposed to be 'here are some starting points; YMMV' ?

 

[randomange]

That's because DAFNE's done as a one-size-fits-all thing. It's basic logic. If you assume that food item A has the potential to raise your BG by 6mmol/l with no insulin, and that at 9am you need 5u to cover this, and then at 6pm you would need 10u, then logically the amount of insulin you need as a correction factor must change too.

I suspect if you raise this issue with a diabetes nurse they'll do the usual trick of telling to not be so silly and listen to them and their half a day worth of CPD they do each year, rather than people who have actual diabetes.

I understand the theory of this, but I've found it doesn't apply to me - my ratio changes throughout the day, but my correction factor doesn't (I've tested it). Just another YMMV experiences! 🙂

PS I thought the premise of DAFNE was really sposed to be 'here are some starting points; YMMV' ?

That's how my course was taught, but reading other people's experiences, it seems that they're not all that way - there seem to be some that are taught in a very rigid way, which kind of defeats the point of DAFNE, IMO 🙄