Ready meal

[Janet Eames]

Does anyone have any idea of how accurate the carbs on the packaging is.I find I need to almost double my insulin dose for what packing says

 

[Ljc]

Hi @Janet Eames , welcome to the forum. Is it any particular meal or all of them that this happens with.

 

[Janet Eames]

Thank you .Ready meals are not part of my regular diet but as a break from cooking now and again ,but I have found with one I had last week pasta based I looked at the carbs listed and added a couple of units for a half portion only to find my b.g had gone up to 15.6 in two hours. My control is normally good I’ve been a type 1 for almost 50 years,and dose by carb counting for about 14 years

 

[Robin]

Thank you .Ready meals are not part of my regular diet but as a break from cooking now and again ,but I have found with one I had last week pasta based I looked at the carbs listed and added a couple of units for a half portion only to find my b.g had gone up to 15.6 in two hours. My control is normally good I’ve been a type 1 for almost 50 years,and dose by carb counting for about 14 years

But what was your BG after 4 hours? If it returned to a reasonable level by then, it could be a question of the timing of the dose, not the amount? The high carb content of a pasta ready meal would certainly cause me to spike quite high, before the insulin got to work and lowered my BG again, unless I injected in advance of eating, (anywhere up to 30 minutes before in my case)

 

[khskel]

Any chance you could have made an error such as bolusing for half the carbs in 100g rather than half the pack?

 

[Janet Eames]

I checked several times on the pack and am sure I did it right. I have been on the D.AFNE regime for 14 years, and thought I was doing o.k,but I do occasionally get these unexpected spikes,I think I am really conscious of it since getting the libre freestyle sensor a couple of weeks ago .I think Ineed to stop stressing about as it was going to make my life easier not stress me out becauseI think b g is too high.

 

[Ljc]

Diabetes does tend to send us these curve balls from time to time.
I think when we first start using the Libre we are just not used to having so much info staring us right in the face, it gave me a shock I can tell you, but now we are friends , hopefully you and your Libre will become firm friends too.

 

[Janet Eames]

So relieved by your message,I looked earlier at results people were giving for their libre readings,and was in despair.Definetly time to relax,I’ve had type one for49 years ,now over 70 , so as I’m still here and feel well I’ll take that as a plus

 

[trophywench]

Absolutely Janet - currently I'm just looking forward to celebrating my 50th diaversary and the 100th one of insulin treatment - the first in 2022 and the second in 2023.