TIMES BETWEEN MEALS

[mum2westiesGill]

Sorry if I have asked this question before

I'm on mdi & use the Accu-Chek Aviva Expert Meter ~ do you always wait for 4 hours between meals?

I know about correction doses & waiting for 4 hours since last bolus jab & I know that if you have a small snack in between meals & you use this meter you can just do bolus advice but what would you do if you ate breakfast at eg 10am then your next meal/lunch was going to be 1pm-1.30pm?

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Like many things with diabetes Gill you don't HAVE to, but there are some reasins why it can be easier if you do.

As an example. I might plan to have some food, and bolus for it. But then fancy a carby snack a few hours later. I can have that snack and bolus for it... but now I have two doses and two lots of food running in parallel. With all the speed of insulin action and speed of carb absorption uncertainties that can involve. Which means that if the BG results are not what I exoected it is less easy to work out hwat happened and learn from it.

Ideally I would eat 4 hours apart, and try to eat my evening meal around 6-7ish so that by bedtime my evening meal dose (and food) should be mostly coming to an end of their action.

But life doesn't always work out like that, so I don't make it an unbreakable rule - just something that generally makes my life easier.

 

[khskel]

I try to leave 4 to 5 hours between meals. It just makes life easier. Tend not to snack either, not because I'm virtuous but because I don't like the unpredictability.

 

[Sally71]

We just eat when we need to, usually not less than 4 hours but occasionally at weekends we find ourselves eating at funny times. In which case the meter will allow for any insulin still active and will reduce the dose accordingly so hopefully no problems. I certainly wouldn't sit there waiting until the four hours was up just to make it easier, especially with a smart meter doing all the calculations for me, sometimes you just have to live your life and don't let it worry you! (As long as you don't just miss a dose out of course, that would be really bad!)

 

[mikeyB]

I usually only eat two meals a day. Lunch not long after 12 and dinner around 8-8.30. Snacks, now that I’ve got a fancy new low effort German nutcracker, tend to be walnuts, almonds and hazelnuts. And tea by the gallon, no milk or sweetener. No need for bolusing.