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Nothing too scary - somewhere in the 50s at the moment. The things I'm looking to work on at the moment are the basal levels to avoid lows during exercise and while I'm sleeping.

"Once your basal is confirmed to be okay, it's worth looking at your Carb ratio and Correction factor and confirming that these are correct. That would make carb counting a lot easier." I don't currently have a Carb ratio and Correction factor. The reason I don't is that I reckon they vary by a...

Suck it (or rather stick it) and see. Don't get too hung up on precise accuracy - there's too low, ok, high, too high, and there's the trend of moving between them (going up or down, and how fast). The trend is very useful, and something fingerpricks can't give you. Back up with fingerpricks to...

As I said in my first post, "I'm on a Libre". When I said what happens with that starting BSL > 14 is that it goes down fairly quickly, not suffering the problems you mention, that was based on the information the Libre is giving me. Are you suggesting that running is a bad thing? Jim Fixx...

Re GI and GL - I gave the examples I did because they were based on identical breakfasts, but dramatically different insulin requirements due to exercise. So no GI/GL change. Re exercising on high BSL - I've not really found that a problem, possibly because if I've got a high BSL in that...

Hi - I'm 46yo, fairly fit, T1 for 20 years. Currently injecting Fiasp + Levemir. Blood sugar moderately well controlled, though I can see peaks of up to 20 occasionally (every few weeks), and will hit 11-13 after meals, though that comes down fairly quickly. I'm on a Libre, so can see the...