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- 132
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
Thanks so much to this forum, the posts of other Fiasp users and the poster @tim2000s and his site http://www.diabettech.com which have been so useful when starting Fiasp only 6 days ago.
I’ve switched from Humalog (novorapid not as good as Humalog for me) and I pump 640g Medtronic with sensors.
It’s reducing my postprandial highs significantly. I have an unusual history of incredibly high post-carb results and a rough road with pre-bolusing. There’s a lot of work / changes but I think it will be worth it. I’m still rising to approx 10/11 for a couple of hours but for me, this is actually VERY good.
So far, I’ve had to reduce everything quite a bit due to INCREASED sensitivity which I’ve not read about with others? Perhaps this will change...(randomly quite high today for first time?!)
Things that may be specific to me and who knows, may or may not continue are:
-Highs are coming down faster too. Wooo hooo. They don’t seem as stubborn.
-I’ll need months of figuring out new dual/square wave boluses which I only used with take-aways before. I think they might need to be used more often now. I wish there was more basic guidance out there on dual/square wave. I’ve got my percentages and timespans from trial and error.
-Due to fastness of action and my increased sensitivity, I needed to be much more vary of hypos.
-As well as reducing my ratios, sensitivity, correction and overall basal, I’ve had to make extra, specific reductions in the basal time slots. For example, more pre-wake up morning hypos.
-Interestingly, on fasting, I used to have a very stable, straight line with humalog. It could be me looking at my pump a lot more, but I think I go up 0.2mls or so then down again and so on. Weird.
I’m looking forward to learning more
I’ve switched from Humalog (novorapid not as good as Humalog for me) and I pump 640g Medtronic with sensors.
It’s reducing my postprandial highs significantly. I have an unusual history of incredibly high post-carb results and a rough road with pre-bolusing. There’s a lot of work / changes but I think it will be worth it. I’m still rising to approx 10/11 for a couple of hours but for me, this is actually VERY good.
So far, I’ve had to reduce everything quite a bit due to INCREASED sensitivity which I’ve not read about with others? Perhaps this will change...(randomly quite high today for first time?!)
Things that may be specific to me and who knows, may or may not continue are:
-Highs are coming down faster too. Wooo hooo. They don’t seem as stubborn.
-I’ll need months of figuring out new dual/square wave boluses which I only used with take-aways before. I think they might need to be used more often now. I wish there was more basic guidance out there on dual/square wave. I’ve got my percentages and timespans from trial and error.
-Due to fastness of action and my increased sensitivity, I needed to be much more vary of hypos.
-As well as reducing my ratios, sensitivity, correction and overall basal, I’ve had to make extra, specific reductions in the basal time slots. For example, more pre-wake up morning hypos.
-Interestingly, on fasting, I used to have a very stable, straight line with humalog. It could be me looking at my pump a lot more, but I think I go up 0.2mls or so then down again and so on. Weird.
I’m looking forward to learning more