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Fair enough Janelle.I felt like I HAD to change my rate to stop all of the hypos I was having.
I wake up usually once or twice a night to go to the loo so I don't find it much extra hassle to do a quick test as well. It's something I've always done. I think I have a bit of OCD and if I wake up in the night I can't get back to sleep until I've gone to the toilet, blown my nose, put on lip balm and done a testIf you have basal testing then yes its me that says hourly is best, even during the night.
However you shouldn't need to do a lot of night basal testing...
You should be able to start to be able to do say a 11pm a 3am and a getting up one night and perhaps a 11pm, 4am and getting up another night.
I too always test once during night when my hubby gets up to go to the loo. I don't need to but its just habit now. Sometimes I admit though that I tell him I'm having a night off and I don't even realise I've said it in my sleep!!
I had a much needed early night last night!They are significantly better. Extreme fluctuations removed and that you had some sleep!!
Whats your plans to lower tge rises and the drops to and from the 9.3 and 8.7?
I'm not sure if the lower rates that worked perfectly on Saturday night and then not at all on Sunday were to do with the weekend or if Sunday night was just when my body decided to go back to requiring the usual amount of insulin. The lows started happening last Wednesday so its hard to know. I guess I will find out this weekend.Glad to read you had an early night!!! And that you didn't have to chase hypo's!!!
Yep seems like a good plan to me.
Do you think the weekends and weekdays are two profiles needed? Are they vastly different?
Last night went OK. My BG did rise slightly through the night so maybe just needs a slight increase.Hows the last couple days been?
It was just a coffee but one from the coffee machine. The one from the coffee machine seems to have a higher impact on my levels compared to making an instant coffee.What do you have as 5g of carb at 7.18am? You could really do with delaying the 5g or breakfast until after 9am to see if that 5g is acting really quickly raising your levels or whether its your basal that just needs a small tweak....
The corrections don't seem to be bringing you down to quite low enough to reach your target level by 5 hours.
Ladt night that may have been due to the food taking a time to digest.. Depending what food you ate earlier or that your insulin is lasting less than 4 hours. However food choice could have impacted on both your corrections during the night. I think a delay for 5 hours if having a correction at some point during the night of food for 5 hours or any other corrections being made would give a clearer picture...
I jumped to 1:1.5 because thats what I calculated after a few nights of corrections and how much 1 unit lowered my BG. Maybe I should lower the ratio until I feel more comfortable though.Your corrections on your pump- don't they change by 1 to say 3 or 1 to 2.9 or 2.8 etc? Why such a huge leap from 1.5 to 3.0? I don't understand that... I understand why you're halving it, but that just proves you need to fine tune rather than big leaps in the ratio's.
The coffee seems to be reacting very quick but I guess its the milk compound stuff they use in machines. If it is at all possible (depending upon your work etc) I think it would be worthwhile tring to delay that coffee until 9am just to check that your basal rate is correct..
Eggs I have to count as 4g of carbs even though they have no carbs. I don't eat bacon or mushrooms so don't know the effects of these or hashbrowns!!
Catch up tomorrow but it is great to see that you aren't having hypos during night and your levels haven't got any big swings in them. So well done on that!!
I might just have to stop being lazy and make my own coffee rather than getting one from the machineMmmm it certainly does. Whats your thoughts on that? It rises so quickly... So much quicker than bolys insulin can manage.
Brilliant levels by the way.... Absolutely superb!!!