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<blockquote data-quote="rorydork" data-source="post: 2306276" data-attributes="member: 530286"><p>Haha. Don’t be hard on yourself. It’s a sharp learning curve and with hindsight I think easier as a kid as you just adapt quickly. Things have advanced a long way though. Personally I’d be very happy with that nightscout graph! It takes a lot “of management” I’d say to stay in single digits all the time. Everyone has the “zone” they want to be in but personally I’d rather run slightly higher than”normal” ie around 7-8 then be aggressive and hit a hypo all the time.</p><p>If he’s running dexcom you should be able to set it to warn you inadvance if a hypo is likely so he can have a small amount of carb to level off again. Remember CGM is always al title behind his actual blood glucose as it’s interstitial fluid it’s monitoring. Again personally I found dexcom g6 to say I was about 2mmol higher than I was. It’s all relative to what you are doing though. Your carb to insulin ration could be perfectly ok but if he’s suddenly doing more activity then that will also lower blood glucose levels.</p><p>In terms of diet yes fat foods will slow the absorption .... pizza is terrible (not that I’m promoting eating it lol) but it is still increasing my glucose levels 12 hours after! Again different people will absorb at different rates.</p><p>mom surprised he wasn’t referred at diagnosis as you’ve usually hit a crisis point or have reached DKA.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rorydork, post: 2306276, member: 530286"] Haha. Don’t be hard on yourself. It’s a sharp learning curve and with hindsight I think easier as a kid as you just adapt quickly. Things have advanced a long way though. Personally I’d be very happy with that nightscout graph! It takes a lot “of management” I’d say to stay in single digits all the time. Everyone has the “zone” they want to be in but personally I’d rather run slightly higher than”normal” ie around 7-8 then be aggressive and hit a hypo all the time. If he’s running dexcom you should be able to set it to warn you inadvance if a hypo is likely so he can have a small amount of carb to level off again. Remember CGM is always al title behind his actual blood glucose as it’s interstitial fluid it’s monitoring. Again personally I found dexcom g6 to say I was about 2mmol higher than I was. It’s all relative to what you are doing though. Your carb to insulin ration could be perfectly ok but if he’s suddenly doing more activity then that will also lower blood glucose levels. In terms of diet yes fat foods will slow the absorption .... pizza is terrible (not that I’m promoting eating it lol) but it is still increasing my glucose levels 12 hours after! Again different people will absorb at different rates. mom surprised he wasn’t referred at diagnosis as you’ve usually hit a crisis point or have reached DKA. [/QUOTE]
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