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Old 07-26-2008, 12:54 AM
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Ok. So. I'm going to drink alcohol tonight finally and see what happens. My friend got a cider, it has 12g of carbs for the whole thing (it's a huge bottle) so I'll have half which is six. My question for tonight is, do I bolus for it or not? I keep hearing different things. If I bolus, and ppl say BG drops later on, then wouldn't a bolus make it go lower?And is cider ok?

...bolus or not bolus!? That is the question.
I bolus then drop my basals to 50% one hour for every ounce of alcohol plus one hour. So I'd bolus then set a 50% temp bolus for say an hour, maybe two when I finished.

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