Little bit confused..

After seeing numerous posts on low carb I’ve moved over to the dark side, haven’t particularly done it for diabetic benefits as my control when eating carbs was really good.

I started low carb yesterday, 29G of carbs a day. I’m still weighing/counting my carbs precisely & taking the insulin for it even though it’s really minimum. Sometimes less than 1unit which is possible to give because I’m on a pump.

Anyway, my BG is all over the place. Really fighting to keep it under 10, don’t get me wrong it’s not spiking into the 11/12’s but usually I’m 100% in range and since yesterday I’m down to 86% which is weird considering I’ve gone from 200g of carbs to 29G. My pump is giving non stop correction doses because it can sense me wanting to go above 10mmol & when I’ve give my self a corrective dose it doesn’t actually budge my BG at all.

Is this just my body adjusting?

 

This is what I’d though, energy levels are non existent at the minute.

 

I’m on the 780G @Antje77 so the basal is not something I can control, looking at my 7 day history it actually looks like the pump has given me more basal over the last 36hrs than it normally does. An increase from 25% basal to 36% if I’m working it out correctly. As for carb ratios, I’ve tried to over count the carbs to see if that will work but unfortunately it had no effect. For instance my tea was 7g of carbs so I did a bolus for 20G, it seemed pointless taking 0.6units. My BG is risen from 9mmol to 10.2mmol and the pump is now auto correcting again.

I know I’m making a big fuss out of BG readings of 10mmol, but when I’m usually never above 7/8 when eating 200g of carbs and now I’m out of range more than ever eating hardly any carbs at all. I’d usually have a bowl of chocolate coco pops after the gym and a Rice Krispie squares bar before I train, both high in carbs & id never see a spike at all. I’ve swapped these for snacks with around 3G of carbs and seeing raises which is mega annoying

 

Upto 12.4mmol from 9 now with 7g of carbs. Very weird

 

I’m on a LOT of protein but I have been for the last year & the protein amount and protein sources haven’t changed (mince, turkey, chicken + whey shakes). For instance for dinner tonight, 200G of mince which id usually have with 200g of rice. Instead of normal rice I had cauliflower rice & broccoli. I’ve never had any issues with protein and needing to bolus for it & if I’m totally honest if I started to need to bolus for protein I’d just swap back to eating my normal carbs as I couldn’t really be bothered with the faff on of counting it etc

 

sorry about the confusion, so at first 25% of my daily total was basal & now it’s 36% with 64% bolus. Today’s insulin rates are 12.625units of basal & 23.150 units of bolus which includes correction doses. Going through my pump history, last wednesday I ate 193g of carbs. 11.325units was basal & 24.6units bolus. Not much difference in insulin amounts at all actually considering I ate 160grams more of carbs. Just shows how much my pump is needing to work to keep me in range

 

Okay so now I’m confused, I’ve had 25units of bolus insulin today. 3.5units of that has been for the carbs I’ve actually eaten. That’s means between me giving correction bolus & my pumps automatic correction system I’ve had 22.5units of corrective insulin. I’ve eat 220g of protein today, so going off your 1u to 15g of protein I’ve had enough insulin today to cover protein and stop the spikes?

Another though, my pump gives me auto corrective bolus when I go above 10, it’s being giving me these all day which should correct the highs from protein I didn’t calculate. But for some reason no amount of correction insulin is bringing my BG down.

 

Mmm, so that’s strange again as that would only be 11u of bolus to cover the protein on my ratios but I’ve had 22.5units of corrective.