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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
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- Insulin
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- Carbs
If you are seeing lows after waking up my guess is that your 200% DP basal was wrong and was being used to cover a carby breakfast that is now missing because you are low carbing. In other words I think that your morning basal was too high and instead you should have used a higher IC ratio at breakfast. And my further guess is that if you change to those settings now, your problem will go away, and stay away even if you stop low carbing.
For protein by the way when low carbing I dose 1/3 of normal IC for the same amount of carbs. So I dose for 60g of protein like it was 20g of carbs. If I dose 50% I consistently go hypo. I use a 2 hr delayed bolus, ie delivery spread over 2 hours rather than immediate.
Thanks Spiker; Breakfast and mornings used to need a fair bit of insulin (basal and higher IC in my case). With LCHF I have dropped from 22iu to 14.5 with no peak. So far so good but I'm only in Day 4.
I'm guessing (in my case at least) the basal requirements & profile change as the body uses up its glucose stores...? Am keeping an eagle eye on BGs.