Hi all,
I've been trying to sort my basal rate on my pump for a fair few nights now by doing overnight testing. But the last two times I've tried, I'd either been too high to test or went hypo after dinner before the pre-bed blood test. It's really frustrating me as on these basal test nights I carb count my meals so methodically and eat a relatively small meal, so I'm hungry by the time I go to bed (I usually carb count like a scientist anyway but I eat a bit more).
I'm just so sick of waking up high and starting the day off negatively with a fat correction bolus and a delay in eating anything, generally to about 11:30 or 12. The rest of the day seems pretty good; lunch in particular seems to work well for me.
I'm just thinking perhaps I should bolus less with my evening meal for the next night in the hopes I don't hypo and am able to do the test. Maybe do a reduction by one or one and half units so I can see where things get me? I know it's not exact but then I can tweak the evening ratio properly once the overnight is better.
Any tips on overnight testing? Any meals you have tried that seem to work well before it?
I'll be honest, I did swear quite loudly when I felt the hypo coming on and even more when I gave in and tested and was 3.7. I then ate something and bolused for it as I was hungry only to be 2.8 in the night. I'm guessing that the nighttime ratio need to be reduced as it was quite a marked drop from the 7 I had and 30g of carbs.
I've had to cough up for a Libre to see if it'll help me with the overnight data as I need to be able to fix this.
Sorry for this ramble... just feeling frustrated.
Thanks,
P
I've been trying to sort my basal rate on my pump for a fair few nights now by doing overnight testing. But the last two times I've tried, I'd either been too high to test or went hypo after dinner before the pre-bed blood test. It's really frustrating me as on these basal test nights I carb count my meals so methodically and eat a relatively small meal, so I'm hungry by the time I go to bed (I usually carb count like a scientist anyway but I eat a bit more).
I'm just so sick of waking up high and starting the day off negatively with a fat correction bolus and a delay in eating anything, generally to about 11:30 or 12. The rest of the day seems pretty good; lunch in particular seems to work well for me.
I'm just thinking perhaps I should bolus less with my evening meal for the next night in the hopes I don't hypo and am able to do the test. Maybe do a reduction by one or one and half units so I can see where things get me? I know it's not exact but then I can tweak the evening ratio properly once the overnight is better.
Any tips on overnight testing? Any meals you have tried that seem to work well before it?
I'll be honest, I did swear quite loudly when I felt the hypo coming on and even more when I gave in and tested and was 3.7. I then ate something and bolused for it as I was hungry only to be 2.8 in the night. I'm guessing that the nighttime ratio need to be reduced as it was quite a marked drop from the 7 I had and 30g of carbs.
I've had to cough up for a Libre to see if it'll help me with the overnight data as I need to be able to fix this.
Sorry for this ramble... just feeling frustrated.
Thanks,
P