When to take fast acting insulin

[helli]

Ok

OK so i prob need a unit for my banana.

This depend on your insulin to carb ratio - we are all different.
If you take 1 unit insulin for 20g carbs, this should be good for one banana.

 

[Ali11782]

This depend on your insulin to carb ratio - we are all different.
If you take 1 unit insulin for 20g carbs, this should be good for one banana.

Yes I am 1 to 20

 

[Ali11782]

Must be doing something right?
Have had about 100g carbs today so far.

 

[Ali11782]

Help what happened last night?
I had my dinner at 5, took 2 units for 50g carbs. Blood sugar started to rise 2hours after eating my lentil flan. Then kept going up till like 9 where it stayed all night?

 

[Lucyr]

That sounds like either the carbs were higher than expected, or you needed more than 2u for the 50g carbs.

 

[Robin]

I was caught out exactly the same last night, I had pork pie with edamame bean salad in my case, with some extra salady bits. The pastry and the beans took so long for my body to digest that it was obviously still working on them at bedtime, as I rose to above 9 after I'd gone to bed. (I probably slightly under bolused as I fully remember an extra wedge of pork pie finding its way into my mouth as I was doing the clearing up.)

 

[SB2015]

Another thought @Ali11782 , pulses can be much slower release.
I found that I needed to split my bolus insulin for those.

However as you remained high after the meal you might need to review your ratio or carb counting.
I try to avoid making changes based on an individual result and set a time to review things, perhaps at each sensor change. this can help to avoid fiddling with changes and not giving time to see the impact.

 

[Ali11782]

Another thought @Ali11782 , pulses can be much slower release.
I found that I needed to split my bolus insulin for those.

However as you remained high after the meal you might need to review your ratio or carb counting.
I try to avoid making changes based on an individual result and set a time to review things, perhaps at each sensor change. this can help to avoid fiddling with changes and not giving time to see the impact.

I am having same meal tonight so will see what it does. Though I am work not at home. I was thinking slow release and mayb should have taken insulin after I ate.

 

[SB2015]

Repeating the meal after a change is a good plan.

it is lots to juggle, and even though you had a wobble with a raised BG you still staid in target apart from a tiny blip. Well done. Lots to take account of including changes in weather, exercise, make of lentils, what is with it, ....

let us know how you get on.

 

[Ali11782]

Repeating the meal after a change is a good plan.

it is lots to juggle, and even though you had a wobble with a raised BG you still staid in target apart from a tiny blip. Well done. Lots to take account of including changes in weather, exercise, make of lentils, what is with it, ....

let us know how you get on.

Will do.
It's about time I get my act together and do it properly. That's me two years since diagnosis.

 

[nonethewiser]

In range 15 mins before food now using fiasp, high bg wait longer depending on level, in 4's will reduce time & might eat straight away, really all depends on food eaten also.

 

[Ali11782]

Don't think this lentil flan thing is good for my blood sugar.

 

[PattiEvans]

98% in target is pretty darn good. No one has mentioned it, but you said your ratio was 1u to 20g carbs. Your original meal was 50g carb and you took 2u, whereas if your ratio was correct then you should have had 2.5u for the meal. Do you have a half unit pen?

 

[Inka]

It’s rarely the food with Type 1, it’s pretty much always the insulin. As an example, if I bolus at the wrong time for breakfast, my blood sugar can go as high as 11 or more, but if I bolus at the right time it’s around 6.
If my basal was wrong and I took the right bolus for my breakfast, that would mess up my results too. In neither of those cases was the fault due to what I ate.

 

[Ali11782]

98% in target is pretty darn good. No one has mentioned it, but you said your ratio was 1u to 20g carbs. Your original meal was 50g carb and you took 2u, whereas if your ratio was correct then you should have had 2.5u for the meal. Do you have a half unit pen?

I do yes. Think I was too apprehensive to take the other half unit as I've gone low a good few times at that meal time. And I'm not quite sure of the reason.

 

[PattiEvans]

Perhaps your ratio is different at that time of day. Or your basal is peaking then. I’d be very pleased with 98% in range, so I’d stop worrying personally.