{"id":629512,"date":"2010-01-13T12:31:03","date_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-2-diabetes\/47589-how-determine-insulin-dose.html"},"modified":"2010-01-13T12:31:03","modified_gmt":"2010-01-13T17:31:03","slug":"how-to-determine-insulin-dose","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/629512","title":{"rendered":"How to determine insulin dose"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>How do T2&#8217;s determine how much insulin to take before a meal. I struggle with this at every meal. My Endo has me on a set amount but occasionally it doesn&#8217;t cover for all the carbs I consume or I go hypo because I did not consume enough carbs for the insulin dose.<\/p>\n<p>I need to be more insulin savy. Last night before bed I dropped from 8.3 to 5.1 in 20min so I skipped the overnight Lantus. Around 4 am I took some glucose tablets becuse my BG was at 4.0. Today my BG is at 10.0 because I did not take the Lantus. So do I take a small dose of Lantus or up the novo rapid dose at meal times.<\/p>\n<p>Sorry to be such a pain but I&#8217;m embarrassed that I cannot get control of the insulin doses.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do T2&#8217;s determine how much insulin to take before a meal. I struggle with this at every meal. My Endo has me on a set amount but occasionally it doesn&#8217;t cover for all the carbs I consume or I go hypo because I did not consume enough carbs for the insulin dose. I need [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-629512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2DLq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629512","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=629512"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/629512\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=629512"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=629512"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=629512"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}