[cheryl]

I have read 3 to 3.5 hours of testing after an insulin like Humalog or Novolog is the ideal number and should be what you were before you took it or close to it if it is not your ratio is off......if your taking extra for a correction then I don't know but learning with this I realised the 70 is not a bad hypo it is more psychological cause your body is probably not used to the hypo's or lower bg's....I have realized that if my basal is off like it is too much then the humalog works a lot faster if the basal is too little than it takes forever to take affect and if it is actually just right it can take up to 2 hrs for the correction to take affect. Learning all this my advice is to make sure your basal insulin is correct first if it is not then the fast acting will not work as correctly as it is supposed too. Also sometimes when we take a correction, we could still actually have a rising bg so it kind of stops it in it's tracks, and sometimes when we take a correction the insulin is already taking too long to work and when we have shot the correction in the other insulin we have took has already started to take affect, it is a mind boggling thing to figure out, I usually finally have understood when to take a correction sometimes I won't after 2 hrs unless it was a food that I have kind of had to guess.....You'll get it but the advice above about Apidra is some good advice because it doesn't have a tail end..........so it is easier to figure out.....

Cheryl