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Do your insulin ratios change much?
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<blockquote data-quote="tim2000s" data-source="post: 1503242" data-attributes="member: 30007"><p>[USER=86670]@mentat[/USER] - one of the things I'd definitely look at is your basal insulin, and more importantly, getting off Lantus. Lantus (while reasonably long acting) is known to be really rather variable in absorption and can really screw up other stuff. so if you're already finding that you aren't settled, it can accentuate that. As for the other bits, well I'd start with that as an easy-ish one, and then progress it from there. For what it's worth, this is what my insulin sensitivity looked like for the past 7 days:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]23320[/ATTACH] </p><p>Whilst not as widely variable as yours, (and ignore the yellow spikes, data error) you can see that it can be much more variable for many of us than we realise. Mine's fluctuated from 1u:2.9mmol/l to 1u to 1.8mmol/l over that time frame, and mine's generally relatively calm. </p><p></p><p>Good luck in dealing with it!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tim2000s, post: 1503242, member: 30007"] [USER=86670]@mentat[/USER] - one of the things I'd definitely look at is your basal insulin, and more importantly, getting off Lantus. Lantus (while reasonably long acting) is known to be really rather variable in absorption and can really screw up other stuff. so if you're already finding that you aren't settled, it can accentuate that. As for the other bits, well I'd start with that as an easy-ish one, and then progress it from there. For what it's worth, this is what my insulin sensitivity looked like for the past 7 days: [ATTACH=full]23320[/ATTACH] Whilst not as widely variable as yours, (and ignore the yellow spikes, data error) you can see that it can be much more variable for many of us than we realise. Mine's fluctuated from 1u:2.9mmol/l to 1u to 1.8mmol/l over that time frame, and mine's generally relatively calm. Good luck in dealing with it! [/QUOTE]
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