I/Carb ratio

[spiritfree]

I have a high I/Carb ratio of 1/5. What are yours?

 

[bev]

Breakfast - 1/14
Lunch - 1/15
dinner - 1/16🙂Bev

 

[novorapidboi26]

AM : 1u:3.3g

PM : 1u:6.6g

 

[MeanMom]

we are struggling to get it right at the moment but are using 1:5.5 all day (no help from DSN on this tho'😡 )
(i mean i unit to every 5.5g of carbs)

 

[novorapidboi26]

we are struggling to get it right at the moment but are using 1:5.5 all day (no help from DSN on this tho'😡 )
(i mean i unit to every 5.5g of carbs)

Assuming her basal is right (holding sugars steady regardless of food and bolus) you just need to start from the breakfast dose........

If she is high at the lunch test, increase breakfast ratio, to maybe 1:10g.

Once happy, move to lunch dose, if dinner test is high, up ratio again at lunch.......so on and so forth.......

Thats the basics which you probably know already, its the unpredicability of the body that stumps everyone..........

 

[MeanMom]

If she is high at the lunch test, increase breakfast ratio, to maybe 1:10g.

Now I'm really confused - i thought the calulation was for eg - total carbs in meal 50g if ratio 1:10 divide 50 by 10 - so give 5 units? So in same example as we are using 1:5.5 I divide 50 by 5.5 and get 9 units ? So 1:10 would be a decrease not an increase?

But yes agree that, generally, high at lunch time means that the breakfast dose should have been higher. I see some people use different ratios at different times of day. Why is that?

 

[novorapidboi26]

Now I'm really confused - i thought the calulation was for eg - total carbs in meal 50g if ratio 1:10 divide 50 by 10 - so give 5 units? So in same example as we are using 1:5.5 I divide 50 by 5.5 and get 9 units ? So 1:10 would be a decrease not an increase?

But yes agree that, generally, high at lunch time means that the breakfast dose should have been higher. I see some people use different ratios at different times of day. Why is that?

Hey, your right.................I use my ratios a wee bit differently........

I started all my ratios at 1:1, which equates to 1unit:1CP, with CP [CARBOHYDRATE PORTION] being a standard 10 grams..........

The way your doing it is fine and much better for kids who need smaller doses.........you get the idea though about dose adjustment, just start at the beginning and go from there......whilst not get demotivated by rogue results....

Different ratios durinf the day is common........

I am on 3:1 in the morning, thats 3 units to deal with 10 grams of carbs, this is down to the hormonal response everyone gets to give the body more energy to start the day, aka dawn phenomonon with diabetics, baiscally insulin resistance.....

This resistance varies at different times of the day, and the beauty of testing regularly means you can identify these levels of resistance and adjust the ratios accordingly......

 

[MeanMom]

Now I get it!

This resistance varies at different times of the day, and the beauty of testing regularly means you can identify these levels of resistance and adjust the ratios accordingly......

Thank you - that has made sense of a lot of things I have read and not understood

 

[novorapidboi26]

Thank you - that has made sense of a lot of things I have read and not understood

There was a thread going about with ppl posting there different ratios, search ratio...............the pumpers have even more rates and ratios to deal with, buts its all programmable, hence better control..........although some recently are experiencing a bumpy ride.............