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<blockquote data-quote="catapillar" data-source="post: 1468280" data-attributes="member: 32394"><p>If you're starting an overnight basal test at 10pm you should bolus and eat dinner by 6pm at the latest. So you could try late afternoon snack and bolus, skip dinner altogether. Or you could just eat and bolus for dinner as normal before the basal, but obviously make sure your moving that early enough not to interfere with the overnight basal test. I don't think there's any particular reason to eat less prior to starting a basal test. If your usual dinner normal works well, no hypos, just have your usual dinner but earlier.</p><p></p><p>Or bolusing less with dinner pre basal testing sounds sensible too.</p><p></p><p>Youre supposed to start off a basal test euglycaemic, not hypo, not hyper. So somewhere between 4 and 10. And youre not supposed to have had a hypo in the preceding 24 hrs, because you've got counter regulatory hormones and vulnerability to further hypos hanging about that might interfere with accuracy.</p><p></p><p>Basal testing is frustrating, it was a very restrained ramble.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="catapillar, post: 1468280, member: 32394"] If you're starting an overnight basal test at 10pm you should bolus and eat dinner by 6pm at the latest. So you could try late afternoon snack and bolus, skip dinner altogether. Or you could just eat and bolus for dinner as normal before the basal, but obviously make sure your moving that early enough not to interfere with the overnight basal test. I don't think there's any particular reason to eat less prior to starting a basal test. If your usual dinner normal works well, no hypos, just have your usual dinner but earlier. Or bolusing less with dinner pre basal testing sounds sensible too. Youre supposed to start off a basal test euglycaemic, not hypo, not hyper. So somewhere between 4 and 10. And youre not supposed to have had a hypo in the preceding 24 hrs, because you've got counter regulatory hormones and vulnerability to further hypos hanging about that might interfere with accuracy. Basal testing is frustrating, it was a very restrained ramble. [/QUOTE]
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