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The Freestyle Libre affect


For me its very clearly not " fasting " per se - I have always sunderstood the fasting number to be the one closest to what your body is at rest at - my actual fasting numberis somewhere around 4.5 to 5.5 However something happens quite late in the morning after an entire night of perfectly acceptable numbers .
before I got the libre I was thinking my blood sugar was about 7- 9 since dinner the previous night up to about 1 pm the following day ie upto 16 hours a day

I now know I am actually in the 4- 6 range for about 12 hours of that. As such the libre has made me a lot happier with my progress overall.
 

Thanks for this. I need to learn as much as I can and so does he. I guess I'll have to watch out for bigger highs with him for the day the honeymoon truly ends. Hopefully not for a long time though. (I live in hope a lot these days.) I know you're supposed to be 7 or less when you eat ideally. Are you actually not supposed to eat if you're higher? What if you choose to eat a main course for which you bolus and then decide you want to eat something else, but you've gone up beyond 7 from the food you've just eaten? Should you just not do it?

Libre is brilliant. You can see the effects that different foods have and learn to adjust insulin differently too. For pizza (fave food) my son does a series of split injections, to avoid serious highs - and it appears to work. Certainly we seem to avoid the truly scary numbers that have happened in the past. He also seems to need about 150% as much insulin as for any other food - but then he does otherwise eat quite healthily. This is what we've learned to do from the Libre data.
 
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