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SueJB said:
Well done!! Share the secret please
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Theres no secret i'm just one of the lucky ones....
My body which is a bit old and a bit knackered responds very well to activity and by that i mean plain old walking.
My libre is proof.
So all i do is match the insulin with the walking and add the carbs along the way.

Changing to tresiba has taught me my body still reacts to the walking and in actual fact it reacts more predictably.
When my level starts to drop after a greater amount of activity i stop and my levels even out and exactly the same if my levels begin to increase i get a wriggle on and my level even out.

Its quite remarkable really and the trick was to get the tresiba amount correct.

I am just about to start moving a bespoke shelf i've just made to its new home and fasten it together and this involves alot of activity so i am eating gf biscuits and a coffee.
Levels 5.7 and i predict in another hour i will be level.
I am my own boss this week as our school is empty so i could just sit here at my desk and do nowt but i wouldn't have eaten the biscuits.

Its all simple stuff and i'm not trying to insult anyones intelligence but it does work for me.

Onwards and upwards

Tony
 
Morning
Yesterday my levels did as predicted and this morning i have a flat graph and stayed in the sixes overnight.
I'm still a bit obsessed with my numbers and have had 45 scans/views per day over the last 7 days.
I'm forever checking my steps too and do wonder is it me or the tech thats driving my diabetes??

I shall give up mentioning my tresiba exploits on here and confine the subject to the other post on the change from levemir.

I have tomorrow off and looking forward to a long weekend where amongst other things i shall be making reindeer out of logs for charity.

Happy times and places

Tony
 
Tony337 said:
Theres no secret i'm just one of the lucky ones....
My body which is a bit old and a bit knackered responds very well to activity and by that i mean plain old walking.
My libre is proof.
So all i do is match the insulin with the walking and add the carbs along the way.

Changing to tresiba has taught me my body still reacts to the walking and in actual fact it reacts more predictably.
When my level starts to drop after a greater amount of activity i stop and my levels even out and exactly the same if my levels begin to increase i get a wriggle on and my level even out.

Its quite remarkable really and the trick was to get the tresiba amount correct.

I am just about to start moving a bespoke shelf i've just made to its new home and fasten it together and this involves alot of activity so i am eating gf biscuits and a coffee.
Levels 5.7 and i predict in another hour i will be level.
I am my own boss this week as our school is empty so i could just sit here at my desk and do nowt but i wouldn't have eaten the biscuits.

Its all simple stuff and i'm not trying to insult anyones intelligence but it does work for me.

Onwards and upwards

Tony
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Thanks for the info @Tony337 and welll done you.
How do you get the Tresiba right ?
and what do you mean by
"So all i do is match the insulin with the walking and add the carbs along the way." and l"Levels 5.7 and I predict in another hour I will be level"?
 
SueJB said:
Thanks for the info @Tony337 and welll done you.
How do you get the Tresiba right ?
and what do you mean by
"So all i do is match the insulin with the walking and add the carbs along the way." and l"Levels 5.7 and I predict in another hour I will be level"?
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My neighbour Mike and sister Yvonne are both type 1...
Mike takes 7 units of lantus and yvonne takes 24 units of toujoo and i take 16 units of Tresiba...
3 different people 3 different insulins 3 different amounts.

For me its a simple equation involving 3 factors...
1.Insulin
2.Walking
3.carbohydrates

For me the background insulin keeps my sugar levels in the 5s but the walking brings my levels down ever so slightly so i get to a point where i need a small amount of carbs. 10g ish.
So me taking a biscuit before i get moving sends my levels up for the exercise to bring it down and stay level.

TBH it sounds like alot of effort but its become like breathing to me and i was very worried about the forced insulin change.
I have a tendency to eat 1 large meal per day as it suits my levels.
I mention Mike and Yvonne and me to make the point we are all different but but but me and Mike, whilst on different insulins, have better hba1cs than Yvonne and are both in good shape for our ages.
I hope this makes sense and as usual (i worry alot) i hope not to insult anyones intelligence.

Tony
 
Forgive my poor IT skills @SueJB but this is todays up to date graph by just grazing and doing with the tresiba keeping in place.

Tony
 
I do know the problem I had with Novorapid was more of my insulin would work later. I had a lot more of a tendency to wake up with a low a couple of hours after I was asleep. I've not ever tried Levemir or Tresiba.

When I took a few months break from my pump I went back to Lantus and did it twice a day. Remembering to take a basal shot twice a day was for the birds lol. I set my alarm but I would leave the house before my alarm sometimes, setting it earlier was a possible disruption too. If I kept it in my purse, that was just sort of a pain to retrieve when at home and I like easy. Twice a day was part of the problem, keeping the dosing about 12 hours apart and the timing of when it was strongest. But if I didn't do Lantus twice a day then it would run out before 24 hours. I would have been better off with a longer lasting basal insulin once a day, but I had used Lantus before so went back to it. Then I tried a combo pump and basal, because I could change my basal through my pump some. Just a pain still too.

A pump is not for everyone, but I do like it better. But I really like being able to reduce my basal rate on my pump, in cases of exercising more or changing my rate just because my body says it needs more or less. A pump is just easier to adjust to daily events. I still use MDI for a lot of higher bolusing because I can have site failures easy, but I find when I use my pump more for bolus dosing I am more likely to give a more accurate dose. Shots for some reason I have a tendency to round up or decide to give an extra unit. I just don't do that on a pump.

Just a note lol, I am not having site failures nearly as often once Omnipod recalled a ton of pods for leaking.... I know I have site failures but I was getting a lot of them which is why I took a break. It turns out it might not have been a me problem so much!!!

A pump carries it's own set of challenges too.
 
SueJB said:
@Tony337 I'm envious to the point of only drinking water all day to get a graph like that. Amazing!!! Tell me, how did you find out the amount of basalinsulin you needed. I'm faffing around increasing/descreasing and nothing I'm doing seems to work,
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I've answered your question in a previous post the one where i reference myself friend Mike and sister Yvonne.
My body responds extremely well to walking and i realise how lucky i am.

Levels good great.
Levels on the up i walk and that brings them down.
Levels low then 10g of carbs.
Repeat the cycle and monitor. My watch shows my levels so a quick glance is all i need and the 20 minute lag is irrelavent as its background insulin which is not as strong as novorapid.

My one large intake of carbs is 6pm when i'm at home but i adopt the same principals.

My job involves alot of walking and i average 18000 steps per day.

Where you say you would be sipping water to achieve a graph like mine and you were me LOL i would increase my tresiba and apply the 10g carb principal when my levels begin to fall.

And as i keep saying its how my body works and i'm very very lucky.
Theres a bit of skill and experience involved but its mainly my ability to analyse the libre data and a huge slice of luck.

I wish you well and hope i've made sense.

My 7 day TIR is 98% below 10 mmol which i'm delighted with and 90 day is 95% below 10 mmol.
I can screen shot that but it does show me 10% below 3.9 which i include in the 98% as i am at variance with what is described as a Hypo or low level as if i'm 3.2 mmol i have already eaten and just waiting for the libre to catch up.

Have a tremendous weekend and i'm looking forward to a negroni when i get home and that is quite sweet so takes a bit or work adding a lamb roast for tea.
I'm from up north where its me tea and not dinner lol lol

Tony
 
I wish walking put my levels down. I have just been away for a week. Walking every day. If I started off on an eight to nine that’s exactly where I’d finish two hours later. If on a five at the beginning it would go up to an eight or nine. Grr! To stop lows at night I’ve reduced my Tresiba to five and a half. Works at night but during the day I’m whacking in the Fiasp.
 
Tony337 said:
I've answered your question in a previous post the one where i reference myself friend Mike and sister Yvonne.
My body responds extremely well to walking and i realise how lucky i am.

Levels good great.
Levels on the up i walk and that brings them down.
Levels low then 10g of carbs.
Repeat the cycle and monitor. My watch shows my levels so a quick glance is all i need and the 20 minute lag is irrelavent as its background insulin which is not as strong as novorapid.

My one large intake of carbs is 6pm when i'm at home but i adopt the same principals.

My job involves alot of walking and i average 18000 steps per day.

Where you say you would be sipping water to achieve a graph like mine and you were me LOL i would increase my tresiba and apply the 10g carb principal when my levels begin to fall.

And as i keep saying its how my body works and i'm very very lucky.
Theres a bit of skill and experience involved but its mainly my ability to analyse the libre data and a huge slice of luck.

I wish you well and hope i've made sense.

My 7 day TIR is 98% below 10 mmol which i'm delighted with and 90 day is 95% below 10 mmol.
I can screen shot that but it does show me 10% below 3.9 which i include in the 98% as i am at variance with what is described as a Hypo or low level as if i'm 3.2 mmol i have already eaten and just waiting for the libre to catch up.

Have a tremendous weekend and i'm looking forward to a negroni when i get home and that is quite sweet so takes a bit or work adding a lamb roast for tea.
I'm from up north where its me tea and not dinner lol lol

Tony
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Sorry to have been a pain by asking a question. We always ate tea at 5.
 
becca59 said:
I wish walking put my levels down. I have just been away for a week. Walking every day. If I started off on an eight to nine that’s exactly where I’d finish two hours later. If on a five at the beginning it would go up to an eight or nine. Grr! To stop lows at night I’ve reduced my Tresiba to five and a half. Works at night but during the day I’m whacking in the Fiasp.
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What time do you take your Tresiba?
I find it strongest around 10 hours after taking it.
I take it at 6am during the week and 9am at weekend.

Tony
 
SueJB said:
Sorry to have been a pain by asking a question. We always ate tea at 5.
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No one is a pain and the single reason we come on this site is to ask questions.
I had an awful night on Friday as i ate alot and took too much novorapid so i was still eating at 9pm.
I missed my alarm and woke the following day in the 14s. I was not best pleased as the fault was mine.
Took an eternity on saturday to get it down and eventually levelled out strangely enough as my wife walked in and she made me cheese on toast with worcester sauce and ketchup.

Place cheese on bread and nuke for 1 minute.
Air fry for 6 minutes and add sauces.
Genius wife worked out if you nuke the cheese first it doesn't fly around the air fryer.
Watch you don't burn your gob....i wish i could do smilies.....

Tony
 
becca59 said:
I wish walking put my levels down. I have just been away for a week. Walking every day. If I started off on an eight to nine that’s exactly where I’d finish two hours later. If on a five at the beginning it would go up to an eight or nine. Grr! To stop lows at night I’ve reduced my Tresiba to five and a half. Works at night but during the day I’m whacking in the Fiasp.
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Getting on for 50 years ago i went for a check up and the specialist, a doctor Buston funny name as a child, was very worried i had lost half a stone and wanted to take me in to hospital which they did in those days but my mum worked out the 6 week holidays had been warm and dry and i had joined the tennis club close to where we lived.
With the weather being so good i played tennis every day for the six weeks.

I mention this as i have always been receptive to physical exercise which is just pure luck.
In those days i was on piggy insulin too.

Tony
 
My brother started out on pig insulin and was reluctant to move. He was reluctant to move to pens too. I suppose if happy with something you don’t want to rock the boat. Ironically he moved to Canada six years ago and within weeks was on a closed loop and up to date Dexcoms. No fights to get one, it was expected along with close monitoring.
 
I love (vegan) cheese on toast with a layer of diced serrano and jalapenos on top, then nuke it! I have it every morning for breakfast. The jalapenos have more flavor and the serranos add more heat.

@becca59 Someone's theory is certain exercise you get used to and when you do a different exercise you use different muscles so it helps more if you need to lower your BG level?? For example I bike (exercise bike) right now 6 miles, sometimes up to 10, but once I go over the 6 mile mark it's usually very effective at lowering my BG level. That was true even when I did 10 miles religiously every day as I probably used up my stored glycogen levels.

But I can walk into a store, grab a couple things and give them to my hubby, leave and watch my levels plummet. I don't walk distances much so I am not used to it. Interesting enough short swims don't make my levels drop either.
 
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