[acb-diabetics] doing insulin to cover meals and counting carbs

[Mike Freeman]

I confess to wondering how one can truly use insulin (other than a basal
insulin such as lantus or levemir) without learning how to count carbs.
Taking insulin without learning carb-counting risks lows (as you have
experienced). I'd recommend Gary Scheiner's "Think Like a Pancreas",
available from BARD, and Hope Warshaw's "Complete Guide to Carb Counting",
available from Learning Ally. In fact, I taught myself tocorrectly calculate
insulin dosages from Scheiner's book.

Mike
 

-----Original Message-----
From: acb-diabetics-bounces at acb.org [mailto:acb-diabetics-bounces at acb.org]
On Behalf Of Barbara Mattson
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 4:02 PM
To: Discussion list for diabetics and/or ACB issues
Subject: [acb-diabetics] doing insulin to cover meals and counting carbs

The only guidance i've received from my endocronologist about taking insulin

to cover a meal is to take meal-covering insulin if my sugar's 170 or above.

at the most i've done 2 units because i've found that i apparently don't eat

enough to cover more than that. in fact, i've had problems with lows with 
only 1 unit of the insulin to cover meals. i have a general idea of the 
kinds of foods that are likely to run up my sugar and their quantities but i

confess i don't get down to a real carb/calorie count.

barb mattson 

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