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Message: <blockquote data-quote="J-a-n-e" data-source="post: 991323" data-attributes="member: 206501">I've started using a pump a week ago. I was told to set up a basal rate: 0.6. With 0.6 my sugar levels are not so bad during the day, although I do some little corrections. Because my sugar levels were too high during the night:sugar level 10 before bedsugar level 15 at 3 am - normally 4 units correctionsugar level 14 - 16 in the morningI've phoned the nurse and asked to increase my dose up to 0.8When I've increased it I had a bad hypo during the day and again high sugar levels during the night.After a meeting with a nurse she said me to slow down and if I do any changes stay with it for 3 days. She set up my dose as 0.6 during the day time and increased my night level from 0.6 to 0.7. I'm happy with my day dose as I'm able to make corrections, but every morning during last week my sugar levels are again from 15 - 17 and I have low level of ketones 0.9 -1.1 - feeling really bad in the morning. I am new to pumping and don't have a great amount of knowledge with it, but to avoid feeling bad I'm thinking to increase my basal dose to 1 during the night time and to check my sugar level not once a night, but every 2 hours. Need some comments from experience pumpers, as I don't feeling great at the moment and I don't want another high sugar levels tomorrow morning as I need to go to work next week...</blockquote>

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