Stopping a Meal Bolus Multiwave

[hkk1970]

Hi, hope you can help.

If you test after you have eaten, whislt a multiwave is still running and your BS was 4, would you cancel the multiwave to stop the rest of the meal bolus.

Often I will test Harry and his BS is eg 4.3 , yet he still has 0.7 units to run through the multiwave and Im not sure if cancelling the bolus is the right thing to do.

Though I did the other evening , stopped the multiwave and he then went hypo !

Now he is back at school after 1/2 term he is running on the low side, when we got higher reading last week !!

Thanks
Helen

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I think you just have to use your 'best guess' in those scenarios.

I may well be tempted with a short multiwave and/or if I thought I might have underestimated the carbs a little. Though my judgement would probably be different if the meal was a well known dawdler and the multiwave was a long one.

More often than not i am fighting the other way around... cancelling a multiwave early and bolusing the rest to try to get the insulin to catch up!

 

[Redkite]

It depends! (Doesn't it always?!!!). If I thought it was a timing issue, ie. I'd got the split wrong and given too much upfront, but I knew there was still food digesting, I might choose to treat the hypo and leave the extended bolus running. On the other hand, I might decide to cancel the remaining bolus and test again in a couple of hours, correcting if he's risen. I would choose the second option if he was experiencing a week of falling levels, which in fact is exactly what's happening with us too now he's back at school after the half term. (Apart from Tuesday when the teacher gave him 15 jelly babies to eat as part of a lesson on world population - he guessed a 30g carb for a bolus, when 75g was more like it!)