Are you using a "sliding scale" in determining how much insulin you need to take?

Question

I can always ask my doctor, but I was just wondering how anyone here handles it if that's what they're doing.

Answer 1

Im diabetic but not on insulin, but I have seen it used many time in hospital with post op patients. Its very effective and gets the blood glucose back to normal in the shortest possible time. If you are considering doing it you need medical advice anyway to determine the dosing levels.

Answer 2

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Answer 3

I have use a sliding scale. It will be dealing with the blood sugar and the amount of carbohydrates you are eating. There would be a set blood sugar that you are aiming for.

For this case we will say 100. And with this, they would give you 1 unit of insulin for every 20 above 100. Then for every 10 carbohydrates, you would do 1 unit of insulin.
If your blood sugar is 150, you would take about 2 units for this.
And eating 50 carbohydrates would take 5 units.
Therefore, you would take a total of 7 units of insulin at that time.

But it would all depend on the scales your doctor gives you. It varies with every person and can be very very different. Hope this was of help.

Answer 4

I have had diabetes for 17 years now. If my sugars are over 150 I use 2 units of Humalog. If they are over 200 I use 4 units and if they are 250 I use 6 units. Most the time I only have to use 2 to 4 units. Hope that helps. Good Luck.

Answer 5

most Type 1 diabetics have the sliding scale, after time you will be able to remember it, sometimes you might need to get reevaluted to make sure that it is write, if i were you, each time you inject insulin, write the date, time, blood sugar level and amount of insulin used. then it your blood sugar level doesn't stay balance, you could show your doctor and it will help out to figure out what to do. :)

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Answer 7

We use carb counting and carb factor in determining the amount of insulin to give our son to cover meals. His I:C ratio is 1 to 45 right now. we make our own adjustments also. His last A1C was 6.9 which is where his endo wants him at 3yrs old.

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Answer 9

just ask your doctor