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Basal testing advice please!

I get you.
I did eat protein when I did my basal testing and it was high, but it was high anyway and constantly rose throughout the day so we know that it definitely was my basal dose that was wrong.
I think that because that was the way I did my last test then that's the way I should do this next one too. It won't be a fair test otherwise will it if I start doing things differently now?
I'm talking that I woke up at about 6 and it rose to 17 in the day!

Indiana x


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Indiana91 said:
I get you.
I did eat protein when I did my basal testing and it was high, but it was high anyway and constantly rose throughout the day so we know that it definitely was my basal dose that was wrong.
I think that because that was the way I did my last test then that's the way I should do this next one too. It won't be a fair test otherwise will it if I start doing things differently now?
I'm talking that I woke up at about 6 and it rose to 17 in the day!

Indiana x


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Would skip the protein, that way its a fair test to see if your basal is correct lol

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:( he's a very very bossy and arrogant doctor (I don't like him very much!) I'm going to stick to his menu like he said so he can't tell me off!
At least then if it's wrong then it'll be his fault not mine, he's told me exactly what to eat at meal times and said that if I don't like it then it's tough because it's only for a few days!! He's obviously got his own ways of doing things!
I really rate him as a doctor I think he's brilliant, but his personality and bedside manner, not so much!!!

Indiana x


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Indiana91 said:
Thinking about it, if protein does raise your bg we don't inject for that anyway.
I count carbs and that's it, I only inject for carbs.
I don't think that a chicken breast or something would push it up that much would it? Else we'd have to count for that too wouldn't we?

I'm confused now!
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It's the protein in the absence of carbs that raises bg levels, I don't count protein either when eating a normal balanced meal. If you read the book Think like Pancreas Gary Scheiner says just to skip food altogether and just drink water, anything else will hinder the bg results.
 
I've got that book! I'll have to read it, it's sitting at the back of my kindle at the moment!

Deadly serious! I've got to pop to the hospital tomorrow anyway so I'll see if I can ask someone but that's what he's like!
He's also the one that I need to "prove I'm worthy of a pump" to (his words) because if I don't do what he asks he doesn't see why he should ask for funding for me!

He can be a bit of an **** if I'm honest!

Indiana x


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