Hi all! How do you go about administering insulin AFTER you started eating when you test and you are low. For example, you are eating dinner and test a little late and you are 60…Say I’ve eaten 60 carbs how do I put that into my pump? Do I wait until I am back to 80 and then put the amount I ate in? Do I put in as if I ate 40 carbs? Hm…I hate putting insulin in at all cause I feel like I’ll go low again, but I don’t want to go high later!
Chris
Chris,
When low before dinner, I will wait until I have eaten all or a good portion of my meal before taking any insulin and then use the “Square Bolus” with time extended depending on what I ate. If I wait until after eating, I may use the “Dual Bolus” especially if I consumed a very fast acting carb.
I suggest that you enter the calculated number of carbs and, when using the bolus wizard, scroll back the BG to, in your example, 60 and let your pump calculate a negative correction. The correction is based on your insulin sensitivity for that time of day.
yea I am with @Dennis the easy way for a minimed pump is to use the wizard, which will figure your bolus minus the low you are dealing with. you can either hold off a half hour and give the estimated bolus, or you can square wave it right then for 30 minutes and get just about the same outcome. good luck.
I know my method is probably wrong but when low at the start of dinner I do nothing until I’m finished (by then I’m usually up) and then just do a straight carb bolus and drop 20 carbs off my total. So if I ate 80 carbs , I shoot for 60. It usually work ok. I hate this disease…every day!