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My BS levels are pretty normal and stable, but I think my liver prefers me being in the 5s rather than the 4s. Analysing my extensive records it appears that:
1. Overnight I am flat. This has always been the case, more or less since the start of my journey. No noticeable liver dumps. The Libre confirms this, as do my finger pricks. However, this is only when I go to bed in the 5s. I am sometimes in the 4s, but when this happens, I get a liver dump bringing me back to the 5s by morning. (On the very odd occasion I go to bed with a 6, I am back to the 5s by morning)
2. Pre-meal levels in the 5s give me a post meal rise in the range I expect according to the food eaten. BUT when pre-meal levels are in the 4s. the rise after eating the same meals is ALWAYS around 0.5mmol/l higher than I would see had I started in the 5s.
It isn't down to meter inaccuracy when I have 4s pre-meal - I have them 40% of the time so they can't all be wrong.
The post meal rises puzzle me. These 0.5mmol/l higher rises are consistent every single time I start in the 4s. Could it be my liver dumping extra because it doesn't like 4s, or could it be my natural basal insulin is working overtime? Is my basal insulin putting me up as soon as I start to eat, is it my liver, or any other mysterious phenomenon? I am not making any of this up. It happens!
Can anyone explain it?
1. Overnight I am flat. This has always been the case, more or less since the start of my journey. No noticeable liver dumps. The Libre confirms this, as do my finger pricks. However, this is only when I go to bed in the 5s. I am sometimes in the 4s, but when this happens, I get a liver dump bringing me back to the 5s by morning. (On the very odd occasion I go to bed with a 6, I am back to the 5s by morning)
2. Pre-meal levels in the 5s give me a post meal rise in the range I expect according to the food eaten. BUT when pre-meal levels are in the 4s. the rise after eating the same meals is ALWAYS around 0.5mmol/l higher than I would see had I started in the 5s.
It isn't down to meter inaccuracy when I have 4s pre-meal - I have them 40% of the time so they can't all be wrong.
The post meal rises puzzle me. These 0.5mmol/l higher rises are consistent every single time I start in the 4s. Could it be my liver dumping extra because it doesn't like 4s, or could it be my natural basal insulin is working overtime? Is my basal insulin putting me up as soon as I start to eat, is it my liver, or any other mysterious phenomenon? I am not making any of this up. It happens!
Can anyone explain it?