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01-19-2006, 11:44 AM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Nov 2004
Posts: 16
| | | Ratio carbs insulin
Hello,
I just wanted to ask you all if you have the same ratio carbs/insulin during the whole day. Or if you have special insulin sensitivity in the morning or at night, that reduces your ratio? 
I think in the morning and lunch time i have 1,5units / 10 carbs and at dinner 1,2/ 10 carbs.
You?
Thank again for all your advices. |
01-19-2006, 11:53 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Brooklyn, NY
Posts: 691
| | | Yeah, my ratios drop significantly in the evening (not dinner time, but any after dinner snacks or correction boluses before bed)
It's like at night my body almost decides it's NOT diabetic. Or at least it's going to be superhumanly sensitive to insulin.
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01-19-2006, 12:05 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Salt Lake City, UT
Posts: 1,042
| | | All my meal ratios differ, at least on a 'normal' day... 1u:5g for breakfast, 1u:12g for lunch, 1u:10g for dinner/evening meals & snacks. I seem to be most sensitive around lunchtime, but not for very long.
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01-19-2006, 12:27 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH
Posts: 8,234
| | | I have a 1:6 ratio in the morning for breakfast and a 1:19 ratio for every other meal of the day.
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01-19-2006, 12:56 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Vancouver, BC, Canada
Posts: 535
| | Mine is 1:12 for breakfast and around 4pm I switch to 1:14 ratio (however that being said I still think it needs some tweeking) 
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Last edited by TvBabe : 01-19-2006 at 12:59 PM.
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01-19-2006, 01:40 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Miami, Fl
Posts: 3,113
| | | Mine changes its absically 1:10 all day, inc. dinner. Now Lunch is a bit less 1:8. But it changes every now and then.
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01-19-2006, 07:54 PM
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I am a: Parent | | Join Date: Aug 2004 Location: Palm Harbor,FL
Posts: 1,092
| | | Thomas - 1:6 for breakfast and lunch and 1:8 for dinner
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01-19-2006, 08:16 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Texas
Posts: 1,107
| | | I get to use 1:10 for every part of the day. Makes doing the math easy.. I mean it made doing the math easy, now the pump does it for me.
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01-19-2006, 10:42 PM
| | Junior Member | | Join Date: Jan 2006
Posts: 90
| | | Like Erin, I drop in the evening as well. I am generally 1:30 although in the evening I'll calculate and cut back by .5-1 unit of insulin |
01-20-2006, 12:30 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Pacific Northwest
Posts: 118
| | | My diabetes team has never advised me to change carb to insulin ratios throughout the day, so I trust them.
I currently take 1:8. That is, 1u per 8g. It's fun being a teen, decreased insulin sensitivity for a few years until puberty subsides.
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01-20-2006, 04:31 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: May 2003 Location: Dubai, UAE
Posts: 3,004
| | | I personally don't even bother with ratios. Mine change from day to day, as well during the day, so there's no real point me sticking to a prescribed ration. Then there's the fact that I digest carbs at differing rates depening on what I'm eating, how much exercise I've done that day, my stress levels, what I've eaten earlier that day.....
...ratios are good to a certain extent in that they assist you in helping to work out how much you need to take. However they're really only a guideline because they only take into account one variable. |
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