{"id":87253,"date":"2009-12-17T16:22:48","date_gmt":"2009-12-17T21:22:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-1-diabetes\/46765-questions.html"},"modified":"2009-12-17T16:22:48","modified_gmt":"2009-12-17T21:22:48","slug":"questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/87253","title":{"rendered":"Questions&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Hey everyone,<\/p>\n<p>Still trying to get used to everything since I&#8217;ve been newly diagnosed a T1, and I feel like everything I read on here makes me think I&#8217;m doing everything wrong!  And, please don&#8217;t take my naivete as being stupid&#8230;I simply don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on!<\/p>\n<p>So, first things first&#8230;when I take insulin before meals, I feel like it doesn&#8217;t work as well as when I take it after meals.  My BG levels are so much lower when I take my insulin afterwards.<\/p>\n<p>Secondly, my levels rarely go below 130.  I thought this was fantastic considering beforehand they&#8217;d hover around 450!  But, normally my sugar is in the 200 range all day.  That being said, I take a TON of insulin every day.  I take probably over 60 units of short acting insulin every day, and I see that others are only taking 4-6 units per meal!!!  I don&#8217;t understand why I have to take so much!<\/p>\n<p>I do understand that what I eat definitely affects it, but I am really trying to stay within 60 carbs per meal which is what my dr. suggested.  After the first of the year, I&#8217;m going to try Dr. Bernstein&#8217;s diet, so I&#8217;ll only have about 30 carbs a day, but is this really the culprit?  Is this why I need so many  units all day?<\/p>\n<p>I also take 60 units of Levemir at night and 14 units of Humalin with it&#8230;.it doesn&#8217;t even seem to help!<\/p>\n<p>Can someone please educate me on why I need so much?? I&#8217;d love to not have to give myself so much insulin&#8230;:confused:<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hey everyone, Still trying to get used to everything since I&#8217;ve been newly diagnosed a T1, and I feel like everything I read on here makes me think I&#8217;m doing everything wrong! And, please don&#8217;t take my naivete as being stupid&#8230;I simply don&#8217;t know what&#8217;s going on! So, first things first&#8230;when I take insulin before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":446,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87253","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87253","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/446"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}