Negg, I'm not sure when you were diagnosed and am assuming it's been pretty recent. Until you know you know how you react to specific foods and get more familiar with your dawn phenomenon (if you have it) and other patterns. I wouldn't mess around with waiting. Lathump seems to have been dealing with this longer. Also my CGM gives me more information that just testing, (although it's not perfect!)so I feel like I can experiment a little more. I am wondering though about your 4 unit correction before bed. How much does one unit bring down your BG? This amount likely should've dropped you way too much.
Acid, I read this comment you wrote somewhere else -- "Before...I had the notion that the amount of insulin and food should sort of be in the ballpark but didn't ever consider counting carbs.... I just winged it and cleaned up the messes with more insulin...These days I ... am more organized and feel a lot better..."
Maybe I need some help with this carb-counting business.
I am eating very low carbs - proteins and good vegetables. Its a quarter of a chicken, or a can of tunafish or 2 eggs. That's it for the protein. Some lettuce, cucumbers, a piece of tomato, maybe some zuchini or other cooked vegs. The way I figure it, I need 1-2 units of novolog per meal, maximum. That leaves very little leeway. I even got a pen that gives 1/2 units, but I can't seem to get this right. Annoyingly, on different days and at different times of the day, that same 1-2 units do a different job on the same meal. So what in the world should I be counting to make this more exact?
Hi,
If you are going very low carb, you probably need to dose for your protein as well. I don't low carb so I can't help you but there is a TAG (total available glucose) group here where people should be able to point you in the right direction.