What ratios do we all use?

[MCH]

In the "Changing to 2ce daily Levimir" thread a few people gave the proportions of Levemir they took morning and evening (which were very different - as is everything with this) and it occured to me it would be interesting to compare what sort of ratios those of us who count carbohydrate use.

In my case I use:

a Food Ratio (for all food) of

1 unit to 11 g of carbohydrate

and a Correction Ratio of

1 unit to bring my level down 5

 

[shiv]

In the morning I use a ratio of 1u:5g of Novorapid. I'll use this ratio up until about 11.30am.

I then use a ratio of 1u:7g over the lunch/afternoon time.

From about 4/4.30pm onwards I use a ratio of 1u:10g.

For corrections, 1u Novorapid brings me down by roughly 2mmol/l.

 

[aymes]

I use a 1:1CP (CP being 10g carbs) all day. It was 1:1.5 in the evening until recently though.

For corrections 1unit brings me down around 2.5

 

[SacredHeart]

In the morning, it's 1:25 grams carb, 1:35 in the evening. Don't tend to need to correct earlier in the day, so I only know that my evening correction is 1u NR brings me down 6mmol/l 🙂

 

[Freddie99]

For me it's one unit for every ten grammes of carbohydrate. One unit should, in theory, bring me down by two point five millimoles per litre.

 

[D_G]

I use 1:20 in the morning, 1:20 at lunch and the same for dinner.

However i think my dinner ratio needs looking at again as i had the same thing for lunch and dinner one day, and at lunch i came back down to what i was pre-meal, and at dinner i did'nt so maybe need a different ratio for the evening.

Oh and i think 1 unit brings me down about 2 mmols 🙂

 

[HelenM]

1:11 breakfast
1:12 lunch
1:10 dinner

My pump is set to correct at 1u for 50mg/dl (2.77mmol)

 

[Laura22]

1:10 all the time

 

[NiVZ]

I use 2:1CP for breakfast and 1:1CP at all other times

(1CP = 10g of carbs)

NiVZ

 

[Lizzzie]

1:10 morning
0.75:10 lunch
2+ : 10 evening....

hence the changing to 2ce daily levimir post

 

[Monica]

C is on:
Breakfast 2U:1CP
Lunch 1.5U:1CP
Dinner/Tea 1.5U:1CP
Snacks 1.5U:1CP

we calculate that 1U will bring C down by 3

The doc tried to change it last appointment as C had Hypo episodes, but as soon as we implemented that ratio she was high all the time, so we changed it back to the above mentioned.

 

[Jules A]

Breakfast 1:10
Lunch 1:10
Dinner 1:7

I take my Levemir at 10pm and I think it's starting to run out by dinner time hence the extra insulin in the evening. I've considered splitting the Levemir but I think that might result in me returning to dawn effect highs.

1 unit brings me down about 2mmol/l.

 

[randomange]

1:7 for breakfast (til about 11:30), then 1:9 for the rest of the day.

I unit brings me down about 2 mmol/L.

🙂

 

[Emmal31]

I use 2 units per 10g for every meal and then I take 24 units of lantus at night. It's interesting to see how different we all are x

Oh and 1 unit brings me down by 3mmols

 

[bev]

Breakfast - 1:16
Lunch - 1:15
Dinner - 1:17

Correction - 1 unit brings down by 5.

8 different basals over 24 hours.🙂Bev