POLL.Has continuous glucose monitoring changed your out look?

Nuck said:

Since I fitted the freestyle libra the information I gained has changed my view of diabetes. I am now able to tightly control my highs and lows before they bite. This means taking small corrections when my levels rise or the odd fast acting carb as my sugar starts to dive.

My biggest change is my Lantus. It appears that this stays active and useful for 9 hours (peaking after 6 hours) before my levels start to rise. This led me to splitting my dose. As Lantus is a 24 hour drug this is not licensed to take more than once. Before I would take a large night time dose and go low at 3am followed by a high at around 9am. I would check my sugars at 7:30 medicate for breakfast and the get the high at 9-10. This does not happen now.

I am now wrestling with the fact that my nighttime requirement has changed after having a near perfect line with no apparent changes in diet or exercise.

Please let me know how you are getting on?

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