When passing to a basal-bolus (or bolus-base) treatment or if you are with insulin pump, carbohydrates have to be controlled much more than with other previous treatments (the HC had also to be controlled but not of aso rigid form).
Depending on the diet that prescribe you with the calories that are (something of the type: 1800, 2000, 2200, ...) a diet distribution can be reached by rations of carbohydrates in each of the meals of theday (something of the type: 4-6-6, 5-8-8, 5-10-10, ... or if something of type 5-6-3-4 or similar is going to snack).
Be the distribution that you are going to continue from the rations of carbohydrates in the different meals of the day that nº must be kept constant in each meal, it must be maintained fixed.
Example: If you have 5 rations of HC at breakfast you should always have breakfast that number of HC rations since the dose of ultra-opted insulin (in your case the Apidra) will be calculated for that number of rations of HC andIf several the number of HC rations the insulin that you would need would be different (the necessary dose could be calculated for another number of rations on the flight (once it will be time to do) but to avoid having to recalculate the doses, the number of portions must be maintainedof HC assigned in each constant meal).
If you follow this and you have a more or less stable diabetes your dose of ultra-opted insulin will also be constant or at least they will vary very little (sometimes you will arrive high at a meal and you will have to put some more dose to correct a little and that but that but that but that but that but thatIn general your doses will vary little).
Bringing a diet by rations has several advantages such as being able to vary the food that will be ingested in that meal maintaining the number of rations of that food.
Example: If you have 5 rations of HC at breakfast and those portions are distributed among lachers, flours and fruits at a given time if you feel like you could fill those 5 rations of HC only with fruits or only with flours (or if you arrivethe case only with cookies).
Another advantage although this is because of the type of basal-bolus treatment, it has already been commented on this thread, it is to be able to skip a meal (if you do not eat anything you do not put any ultra-opted insulin) it can occur if for example you areSick and do not at all in the body or on weekends you feel like sleeping and you don't want to have breakfast.
With respect to the amounts of Apidra that I use:
As a general comment, what I say is that those comments of "is a lot of insulin" or "is little insulin" or similar if they are not accompanied by something else, if they do not rely on anything else, they are empty comments since each one putsThe dose of insulin you need, if someone to eat needs 50 units of ultra-opted insulin and that figure is also the rest of the world should not say anything, it is what it needs.
And explaining my particular case a bit: I measure 180 centimeters and weight about 85 kilos, among the things that have to be taken into account for the amount of insulin that the most important is possibly the weight, equal to other things ifMore insulin is needed more.
What I can say is that the insulin injects is not so much: Lantus (32 units)+Apidra (18+12+14) = 76 units a day, I am below the insulin unit per kilogram and day (more specificallyI am injecting about 0.9 units per kilogram and day) is not so much but even if it was, if I need to silence everyone.
Regarding other things such as the distribution of the type of basal-bolus insulin is also not decompensated since it is more or less 42% basal insulin and 58% insulin for bowling and according to several authors basal insulin should be more or less 40% of the total (although there are also other authors who speak of a distribution 50% - 50%), whatever the castWe return to the same thing again, if everyone is going to shut up.