Basal too high

Hi I’m wondering whether my basal is too high but I’m not too sure.

I was on 14 units of Lantus when in the UK and thought it would change when I came on holiday to a warmer country but it was exactly the same so I kept giving the 14 units and I’ve been here over 3 weeks and it has been fine however I’m having issues with my appetite where I don’t feel hungry at all so I don’t really eat. I’ve realised that my blood sugar is going down naturally by itself without bolus, I’m not totally starving myself but I’m eating very little probably around max 1000-1200 calories a day, I wonder if this has anything to do with my blood sugar going low?

I thought basal was supposed to keep you steady regardless? In this case should I be reducing my basal on days I don’t eat that much. Kind of new to this whole diabetes thing even though sometimes I like to pretend I’m an expert

Thanks for the help

 

Well the holiday was a month long and I only have like 3 days left before I return. It was perfectly fine until the last few days where I’ve been eating less. I check my blood sugars too regularly to have a hypo, around. 8-12 times a day but I’ve seen my blood sugar go from 6.6 mmol/L to 4.4 mmol/L in a couple of hours and this has happened most of the time when I have a low-carb or carb free meal. I’m just assuming it’s my body not having enough energy so it’s pulling the glucose from my blood I guess?

I haven’t experienced any change in insulin dosage requirements apart from the minor thing described in the post. Ever since I got off the Libre I am yet to have a hypo, I think the Libre was making me too obsessive over the numbers and I was always aiming for 5mmol/L which is why I ended up with frequent hypos and I would go as low as 3.2 without feeling it, a few days without hypos and I know I’m having a hypo from 4.4 so it’s great!!

 

I have just totally given up on the Libre. I did ask for replacements for the ones that failed but it’s becoming tiring to keep asking them for a free replacement. I think out of 6 sensors or so 3 have been sent as a free replacement. They obviously don’t work for me so let me not waste their money and mess with my health. Finger pricking has been so far great however because I was relying on the Libre I only brought 100 test strips of which only around 19 left right now— I’ve sorted out 6 strips per day until I return which is not totally enough but still manageable provided everything is 100% carb-counted with no guesses, it should be fine.

Unfortunately with some Libre sensors there is a constant 3mmol/L difference but on others it changes between 1.5-3.5mmol/L so even if calibrated it would require several calibrations a day which would defeat the purpose of the Libre. A big problem was that I was relying on the Libre for highs and lows which is probably the biggest reason why I had frequent hypos