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If you had a “low blood glucose”<br />
yesterday, figure out your correction<br />
insulin dose.<br />
Subtract your target goal from your low<br />
pre-meal blood glucose.<br />
_______ – ________ mg/dl = _________<br />
Target Goal<br />
This will be a negative number. You will<br />
need to subtract insulin to make the<br />
correction.<br />
Divide your answer by your ISF and<br />
subtract answer from your usual insulin<br />
dose.<br />
(ISF)<br />
= ________<br />
Subtract the answer from your usual<br />
pre-meal dose.<br />
________ – _________ = _____________<br />
Fill in the table below with your<br />
calculations using your own<br />
information:<br />
Pre-Breakfast<br />
Pre-lunch<br />
Pre-dinner<br />
Usual <strong>Insulin</strong><br />
Dose<br />
<strong>Adjust</strong>ed<br />
<strong>Insulin</strong> Dose<br />
Every time you take a correction dose for<br />
an out of goal blood glucose you should<br />
note the effect on your blood glucose. If<br />
your glucose correction doses never bring<br />
you back to your goal range, you should<br />
lower your sensitivity number. If you<br />
are under-correcting you are not giving<br />
enough insulin. You will know this<br />
because your high blood glucose<br />
readings will remain high and the low<br />
blood glucose readings will stay low.<br />
This means you need a larger correction<br />
dose, so reduce your ISF by 5.<br />
If you are over-correcting you are taking<br />
to much insulin. You will know this<br />
because your high blood glucose values<br />
will become low and your lows may<br />
become high. This means you need<br />
to decrease your correction dose,<br />
raise the ISF by 5.<br />
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