As you learn to manage your diabetes, or the diabetes of someone under your care, administering the proper amount of insulin and its timing is important. I frequently read here about parents who are afraid to sleep at night in fear of a child going too “low”. Often times the low BG reading could have been avoided by more careful use of insulin correction doses.
Good article! The emotional bolus response is such a real thing. I see it in myself especially when wearing the CGM, and I can “obsess” over watching my BG not come down as quickly as I’d like.
From experience, I’ve learned to convince myself that it’s better to let my BG come down a little slower than to have that cycle of bolusing for a high, becoming low, bouncing back to high, and so on! That’s no fun for anyone!
@lepley, I am hearing what you are saying - counteracting the mental instinct, or constant indoctrination to make our bodies perfect, glucose wise. I don’t use a CGM but I do before and after meal BG fingerstick checks and after many years developed a way to micro-correct and I’ve got a rule [with very few exceptions] not to bolus within four hours after a meal-time bolus.