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Message: <blockquote data-quote="stanfordsteve" data-source="post: 1532293" data-attributes="member: 377151">You seem to be doing pretty well. I've been T1 for 55 years and gone through a good few changes to the way I control it. I don't have a CGM, just a finger prick test up to 7 times per day. I would be frustrated if my doctors deliberately withheld information from me about my diabetes and would insist on having all the information they do.As an engineering student, you will probably be well aware of the need to test/measure and adjust in the right way to avoid the phenonemon of 'hunting', where testing is too infrequent to pick up changes happening more rapidly than the tests can pick up and/or adjustments are too large or small, thus leading to instability in the very thing you are trying to control. I was wondering whether you have done basal testing to ensure your Lantus dose is the best for you. After doing so, I found my Lantus needed splitting into 2 doses, half AM and half PM, and I was able to reduce the total dose as a result. An optimised basal dose may, just may, help smooth out those day to day glitches you are getting. But optimising the basal may have an impact on the amount of Humalog bolus you need as well if you are inadvertently compensating for too much or too little Lantus.</blockquote>

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