Fighting with perfection

Note: I originally wrote this many years ago for another site. It is not available anymore, so I am republishing it. Diabetes is a thing surrounded by numbers. Everything is a number or is used in a calculation. We have blood sugars, units of insulin, and grams of carbohydrates. Then we take those numbers and stick them into more numbers. There is the insulin-to-carb ratio, the duration of insulin action, our correction factor, and more. With all those numbers, it is easy to expect the math to always “net out.” If I do the math, using all of those numbers, I expect my blood sugar to come out close to my target blood sugar.  I think that all of us realize there are many areas of inaccuracy in all of those numbers, especially with the glucose meters and food label information we use. There are so many more areas around these numbers that don’t fit nicely into our calculations. Did you know that the size of your bolus affects how long that bolus lasts (duration of insulin action)? That’s some ugly math. None of our current devices deal with ugly math very well. To be fair, this math does a...
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