James1980
If you are wanting to test your basal rate... Do you know what you are trying to achieve by testing?
First off tou should only test your basal rate when you are starting from a good blood level reading.. Between 5 and 8 ideally. You must not have had any correction injections or food or hypo's within the 4-5 hours prior to testing your basal rates.
You MUST stop testing basal rates if your tests go too low or too high... And you must treat appropriately.
In an ideal world with loads of strips you would test every hour, however every 2 hours is ok.
So an example is.... You wake up at 6.7... You havent ate all night or had a hypo.. So you can ideally skip breakfast and your bolus injection. You ideally test every hour or two.. Or if you feel levels are changing too much. You could carry this on past lunch time if you wanted.. Providing your levels stay in limits...
I will allow mine on odd, rare occasions to go up to 12 before I correct with a bolus....I then don't eat for 5 hours to check that my correction bolus brings me down to 6.5 at the end of 5 hours. If I get down to normal levels before 5 hours then I know I have given too much correction insulin and I would end up hypo within 5 hours.
This works for MDI and pumps... but, you must be able to monitor closely, and stop and eat or stop and correct if necessary.
Then you must be able to react and adjust as necessary according to your results.