Royjk
Well-Known Member
So, it is 5 day of CGM and what have I found?
First I needed to get rid of the red warnings of low events, for the first couple of days I had 4 warnings with a total of 10 hours below 3.8mmol/l. I know that these were not blood glucose but they are interstitial fluid readings, and I have no way of knowing if they are false readings or real. So to get rid of them I cut down on my evening meal fiasp, by 3 units, and my basal by 4 units, and started eating a ham roll at 10pm each evening. This has moved the graph from the red up into the low yellow still less than 4.8mmol/l through the night but within some kind of control. But I still only get a total of 60% in the green,4.8mmol/l - 7mmol/l with 40% now in the low yellow.
So my next step will be to reduce my already low dose of breakfast fiasp, down to 1 unit to see if I can lift morning yellow levels up into the green control area by perhaps also having a slice of toast with my breakfast.
I can now see clearly why some people here said that random testing was not good, and throughout my changes I still get the same good results for finger blood tests.
So I am disappointed that I have left my strict adherance to a low carb diet which I had maintained for the past 6 months, But it has been giving me an unkown low blood glucose level for perhaps a long time, and my morning good tests may have been due to the inrease in blood glucose that comes with movement.
I still have a week before I see the doctor, and will be interested to see what else comes up in the second half of this monitoring.
Royjk
First I needed to get rid of the red warnings of low events, for the first couple of days I had 4 warnings with a total of 10 hours below 3.8mmol/l. I know that these were not blood glucose but they are interstitial fluid readings, and I have no way of knowing if they are false readings or real. So to get rid of them I cut down on my evening meal fiasp, by 3 units, and my basal by 4 units, and started eating a ham roll at 10pm each evening. This has moved the graph from the red up into the low yellow still less than 4.8mmol/l through the night but within some kind of control. But I still only get a total of 60% in the green,4.8mmol/l - 7mmol/l with 40% now in the low yellow.
So my next step will be to reduce my already low dose of breakfast fiasp, down to 1 unit to see if I can lift morning yellow levels up into the green control area by perhaps also having a slice of toast with my breakfast.
I can now see clearly why some people here said that random testing was not good, and throughout my changes I still get the same good results for finger blood tests.
So I am disappointed that I have left my strict adherance to a low carb diet which I had maintained for the past 6 months, But it has been giving me an unkown low blood glucose level for perhaps a long time, and my morning good tests may have been due to the inrease in blood glucose that comes with movement.
I still have a week before I see the doctor, and will be interested to see what else comes up in the second half of this monitoring.
Royjk