Hi everyone.
I'm T1 on a pump for around 3 months now, and I've decided it's time to start fine tuning the thing, and I'm starting doing my fasting basal rate testing.
Reading up in my "think like a pancreas" book, and also from a fact sheet my pump nurse has given me, it says to split the day into 3 or 4 sections, and do one each day.
Maybe I'm just getting too "into it" but once I've done the morning fast I think - "Well, I might as well carry on, and so on etc. until I've clocked a fasting 24 hours worth of BG readings to base my basal changes on. (Get the hunger and aggro out of the way in one session)
Does anyone have any opinion if this is a bad idea or should I definitely be breaking it down into 3 or 4 blocks ? Is there any reason that data collected over a longer period would not be accurate (assuming no hypos or very high sugars)?
Thanks - Dave.
I'm T1 on a pump for around 3 months now, and I've decided it's time to start fine tuning the thing, and I'm starting doing my fasting basal rate testing.
Reading up in my "think like a pancreas" book, and also from a fact sheet my pump nurse has given me, it says to split the day into 3 or 4 sections, and do one each day.
Maybe I'm just getting too "into it" but once I've done the morning fast I think - "Well, I might as well carry on, and so on etc. until I've clocked a fasting 24 hours worth of BG readings to base my basal changes on. (Get the hunger and aggro out of the way in one session)
Does anyone have any opinion if this is a bad idea or should I definitely be breaking it down into 3 or 4 blocks ? Is there any reason that data collected over a longer period would not be accurate (assuming no hypos or very high sugars)?
Thanks - Dave.