Re: Looking for support for Harry
He does get a pretty big drop from his insulin. It's gradual but can be 300 points over 12 hours.
Technically, I wouldn't say his insulin is running out early. You estimate duration by whether the blood sugar goes back to where it started in 12 hours, which his does.
I think it's more that the strongest insulin action is in the middle of the day with no food to go with it. Can you give him a mid-day snack to level out his blood sugar?
It can be smaller meals and give the rest of the meal mid-day and at bed time. And you might need to drop the insulin just a tad until you see how the new meal sizes and timing work for his dose.
You want to flatten the curve even if it's all higher. As it is now, you can't give more insulin to bring the higher blood sugar down because the low blood sugar is often just right and you don't want it to go lower.
So first you flatten the curve - different food that's slower to digest or mid-day snacks.
And then, when the curve is flatter, you can increase the insulin dose if the numbers are too high.
Weather, etc. can affect how they process food and insulin so maybe this is his DC curve.
Natalie
He does get a pretty big drop from his insulin. It's gradual but can be 300 points over 12 hours.
Technically, I wouldn't say his insulin is running out early. You estimate duration by whether the blood sugar goes back to where it started in 12 hours, which his does.
I think it's more that the strongest insulin action is in the middle of the day with no food to go with it. Can you give him a mid-day snack to level out his blood sugar?
It can be smaller meals and give the rest of the meal mid-day and at bed time. And you might need to drop the insulin just a tad until you see how the new meal sizes and timing work for his dose.
You want to flatten the curve even if it's all higher. As it is now, you can't give more insulin to bring the higher blood sugar down because the low blood sugar is often just right and you don't want it to go lower.
So first you flatten the curve - different food that's slower to digest or mid-day snacks.
And then, when the curve is flatter, you can increase the insulin dose if the numbers are too high.
Weather, etc. can affect how they process food and insulin so maybe this is his DC curve.
Natalie
Originally posted by jenni23
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