Don't mean to sound stupid but post-prandial??? ha! I wasn't going to test when I did as it hadn't been tooo long after lunch but I did and then got annoyed so corrected and obviously over corrected....one day I will master this disease lol.....one day!! I'm a 7.0 now!You were high at 2.40pm - was that a post-prandial high? and if so, had you already bolused for what you had eaten?
Guesswork here, but it sounds as though you might have over-corrected and some of the earlier 'high' had already been accounted for.
Don't panic! Chocolate biscuits aren't the best for a speedy release of glucose. Have a couple of jelly babies or something fast acting just to raise your BGs back up and then try to figure out what's happened. (It's probably already on it's way up as I write this!)
Kind of, I am back on injections so it's just finding whats right and whats wrong at the momentThere you go - sounds to me as though you've pretty well got things figured out. We can't be perfect all the time.
Don't mean to sound stupid but post-prandial??? ha! I wasn't going to test when I did as it hadn't been tooo long after lunch but I did and then got annoyed so corrected and obviously over corrected....one day I will master this disease lol.....one day!! I'm a 7.0 now!
Oh lol! And i know but im currently going through a phase of testing alot....Postprandial means after a meal. Ideally you should leave it at least two hours after a meal before testing...and if taking correction doses take into account any active insulin that you still have on board.
6 units is a lot with active insulin on board Nicola.
To find out how much 1 unit of insulin drops your bg levels by use the Rule of 100, what you do is divide 100 by your TDD (TDD is your average daily basal & bolus doses added together) to get your correction factor, so if your TDD was 38 units this would mean that 1 units of insulin will roughly drop your bg levels by around 2.6mmol/l.
The Rule of 100 is only a rough guide so do keep that in mind.
This doesnt have my insulin on it but this is my bloods for a week or so....xxNicola has quite high doses of insulin.. Her total daily dose is far larger than the 38 units suggested. Her correction doses on pump used to be far different to what say mine were.
When I helped Nicola in her early days of pumping I would actually double up in my head what I would do for myself... If I adjusted up to .1 an hour for myself.. Nicola because of her higher doses could cope with .3 an hour change... Etc... It will be intereting to see what her TDD comes back as...
Perhaps Nicola can add her basal and bolus up for 24 hours and she can get some further help...
It also Depends whether she is using pump handset for insulin on board until we've sorted out an expert meter for her (hopefully tomorrow). Or whether her background isn't quite right as well..
Nicola... Great time to do some basal testing girlie!! Xx
(Ps... Sorry for interfering!!- ha ha.. Got your best interests at heart..)
No i am testing before breakfast, always do its just i dont scroll and change it hang on let me do it all again!! XHave you only done one reading pre breakfast? Are you rarely testing before breakfast? - you need to test before breakfast ideally...
Have you only done one reading pre breakfast? Are you rarely testing before breakfast? - you need to test before breakfast ideally...
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