Insulin Dilemma

What difference is there on Tuesdays and Saturdays so that you need more insulin?

It's probably too late now but I would follow DSN's instructions only if I was in double figures consistently. I certainly wouldn't want to increase insulin if my BG was 7.3. However, I am Type 1 and am insulin sensitive, so you would have to take your own circumstances into account. Are you likely to go hypo? That is the main question

Hi @Libby3781, Could you please detail your current insulin type and regime , to help sort things out a bit?

Thank you @Libby3781, As I understand it levemir is long acting insulin of approx. 12 to 16 hours (24 hours at the outside) duration and most take it twice daily so that it covers 24 hours.
Also it has little effect on BSLS rises from meals because its effect on BSLs is low and extended, as basal insulin should do..
And fasting morning BSL gives me information about how my evening levemir (talking some 7 + years ago) is working. I used to also say, skip lunch and see how my BSL was say, 2 hourly from 12 to 6 pm as a way of seeing how that 6 hours was going basal-wise. And same for say, 6 pm to 12 mn(no evening meal) , 12 mn to 6 am, 6 am to 12 md (no breakfast) etc. .
But if say, my evening meal led to a BSL after 2 hours of 12 mmol/l, then I could not expect my evening levemir (or a daily levemir) to do much about that reading and a higher than normal fasting morning BSL may result the next day. Putting my levemir dose up was not going to solve that.
The beauty of twice daily Levemir though, was that that at the 12 hour mark (the next of the twice daily doses) I had an opportunity to have a different dose of Levemir. After all we eat more between say 8 am and 8 pm than between 8 pm and 8 am, and maybe there is less stress when sleeping than during the waking hours so we may not need the same level of basal through 24 hours.
So I am suggesting you inform your DSN about what your BSLs 2 hours after each of your meals are, to see that there was not problems there and particularly to report if the after evening meal and even the before bed time BSLs tend to be high.
And consequently whether fasting BSL the next morning was high as well.
And about whether twice daily Levemir was a better regime or not.
High BSLs 2 hours after meals may need a different solution, I would suggest, to the use of Levemir by itself - see what your DSN suggests.
Best Wishes