Would you recommend it @tim2000s?
Something to bear in mind is i regret not getting the paper veraion. I find the ebook quite difficult to quickly reference and bookmark and refer back to. everyone is different, and its possibly my stupidity, but i will never buy a reference book in electronic format again.Thanks @steve_p6! That is really helpful. I have had my libre since Christmas and feel like I don't really understand the figures or act on them very well. I still have averages in the 9's and time in target under 50%.
I am going to order the kindle version of Sugar Surfing.
As an example I'm thinking of my daughters spike after breakfast, I pre bolus and give her the meal when she starts to drop and I'm sure the insulin is working, she spikes sometimes 8-9 mmol. .. its a very steep rise followed by a very steep drop which eventually keeps going until she goes low. I get that normally such a spike suggests not enough insulin was given but if she eventually drops then obviously not...Not quite @shivles you use sugar surfing as a way to beat unexpected rises ans try to maintain a flat line. So you bolus upfront for your food as normal, and then if that proves to be wrong, you bolus some more to stop a spectacular high occurring. When you are correcting, you're trying to come back to your target, not go low, so treating the impending low should be (as normal), occasional and not all the time.
It's something that takes a bit of trial and error to get used to but is amazingly effective once you get the hang of it. And it's way easier with a pump and the very small doses that they can give.
Sorry to bring up an old thread but I've been reading this the last couple of days
I'm a bit confused, from what I'm reading basically you give your bolus and then if the rise is too steep give another tiny dose of insulin to kind of round it off, then be on the look out for a low that might happen because of the extra dose, giving glucose as needed to ward off the hypo.
Is this right? It seems a bit mad lol
As an example I'm thinking of my daughters spike after breakfast, I pre bolus and give her the meal when she starts to drop and I'm sure the insulin is working, she spikes sometimes 8-9 mmol. .. its a very steep rise followed by a very steep drop which eventually keeps going until she goes low. I get that normally such a spike suggests not enough insulin was given but if she eventually drops then obviously not...
Is the only way to stop this to change what she has for breakfast? The team are extremely reluctant to suggest I change her from a carby breakfast
I think your daughters TDD must be pretty low? So it might be difficult to implement micro blousing with only half a unit to go down to.