We have been sick for several days now, and are up to 80% basal today. The boy has been pushing many units of insulin into his system, which somehow do nothing to his BG: he injected 17 units in 4 events to try to get low enough to have dinner, to no avail (he was around 100 all evening but could not seem to come down lower).
When this happens, we fall back onto a very low-carb dinner: we can’t wait past 10:30pm for him to have dinner… One of our standard fallbacks is a veggie and meat saute. Tonight, it was:
1.5 oz of broccoli
*1 oz of Mann’s power blend
3 oz of home-made pulled chicken
olive oil, garlic, grated parmesan and spices, all sauteed quickly together – total 4 carbs.
What do you fall back on when you are too high to eat and can’t come down?
Similar idea, something with few enough carbohydrates in it that it doesn’t require much insulin (if any at all) to eat. There have been many times that I’m thankful that it doesn’t require much of a bolus!
For a sick day, I would consider 100 to be great !!! For us it is a battle to get it under 200 with a mini-celebration if we get it under 150. Sick days are tough.
Eggs before it was a low carb diet - now it’s low carb diet can’t eat protein either so I eat a big slice of Brie smothered with olive tapenade as fat is the only thing for free now
If I am really hungry, nuts. They satisfy hunger but have a delayed effect on BGs, due to high fat and protein. Hopefully by the time they get metabolized, BG is under better control!
(a Bloody Mary works well if I feel like I need some added vitamins)