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Afternoon friends, I need to consult the female half of the T1 hive mind on this one!
Do any of you ladies find that the week before your period results in higher readings and a degree of insulin resistance? And if so, how do you counter it? I’m finding that my “foot on the floor” Novorapid dose at stupid o’clock in the morning is only delaying the dawn liver dump rather than stopping it during this week, and I’m spending most of the morning in the 8s and 9s injecting two or three units with little effect. I’ve only really started noticing this in the last two cycles, as I’ve been using the “menstruation” tag in the MySugr app, and could search the dates when I spotted the IR. While I’m regular, I’m notoriously rubbish at keeping track of my cycle.
I’m on Tresiba, so changes to that take a day or two to make any difference, although I am upping it by a unit for this particular week. I’m confident the dose of that is correct, as my Libre trace shows a flat profile all through the night. I take 18 units of Tresiba at 8am and a unit or two of Novorapid at whatever point in the few hours before that my liver decides to wake me with a dump, somewhere between four and seven. No point in setting an alarm for that, my liver wakes me with a dollop of cortisol that tells me the glucose dump will happen soon, so I inject then.
My usual 1 unit will bring me down by 2mmol in the mornings, 3mmol the rest of the day. I usually have a low carb breakfast around 10am.
Any suggestions as to how I can stop these morning highs would be gratefully received, thank you <3
Do any of you ladies find that the week before your period results in higher readings and a degree of insulin resistance? And if so, how do you counter it? I’m finding that my “foot on the floor” Novorapid dose at stupid o’clock in the morning is only delaying the dawn liver dump rather than stopping it during this week, and I’m spending most of the morning in the 8s and 9s injecting two or three units with little effect. I’ve only really started noticing this in the last two cycles, as I’ve been using the “menstruation” tag in the MySugr app, and could search the dates when I spotted the IR. While I’m regular, I’m notoriously rubbish at keeping track of my cycle.
I’m on Tresiba, so changes to that take a day or two to make any difference, although I am upping it by a unit for this particular week. I’m confident the dose of that is correct, as my Libre trace shows a flat profile all through the night. I take 18 units of Tresiba at 8am and a unit or two of Novorapid at whatever point in the few hours before that my liver decides to wake me with a dump, somewhere between four and seven. No point in setting an alarm for that, my liver wakes me with a dollop of cortisol that tells me the glucose dump will happen soon, so I inject then.
My usual 1 unit will bring me down by 2mmol in the mornings, 3mmol the rest of the day. I usually have a low carb breakfast around 10am.
Any suggestions as to how I can stop these morning highs would be gratefully received, thank you <3