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<blockquote data-quote="Marie 2" data-source="post: 2533814" data-attributes="member: 475037"><p>[USER=551983]@ShandyT[/USER] If you have to eat every night to boost your BG level, your basal is probably too high. As [USER=372207]@Antje77[/USER] has said............if you don't eat all day or night your basal should stay sort of even keel, give or take 1-2 mmol throughout the day. Basal is only supposed to take care of what your liver makes without eating. There is also the chance if you are taking insulin in the evening, it was too strong of a dose, so you are dropping after you go to sleep. While most of your insulin works within 3 hours, it can still be working up to 6 hours after you have taken it.</p><p></p><p>We can all vary day to day of course, between weather, stress, exercise, what we eat. Way too many things can affect our BG levels daily. But having to definitely eat every night is a trend, not a variable.</p><p></p><p>I don't eat unless I am between 4.4 to 5.9. I am retired so I can vary when I eat and I generally do not go above 9 after eating. But being retired when I am home if I see my numbers go much above 7.2 I am usually getting on my exercise bike for at least a few minutes to stall or reverse the rise until my insulin starts to kick in. I aim to be between 5.3 to 6.5 for bedtime, although on the nights I turn off my alerts I have a tendency to aim for between 5.9 to 6.7 at bedtime. Those variables though, I say that as last night I ate some cupcake to boost my levels somewhere above the 3.9 that I seem to have wanted to stay at. My control is unusual though, considered extremely well controlled.</p><p></p><p>The NICE guidelines are pretty strict. In the US, the guidelines they want you to stay is in between 3.9 to 10, 70% of the time. But I gather most type 1's in the US don't manage to do so and are more likely to be TIR between 40-50% of the time.</p><p></p><p>Basal Testing</p><p><a href="https://www.mysugr.com/en/blog/basal-rate-testing/" target="_blank">https://www.mysugr.com/en/blog/basal-rate-testing/</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marie 2, post: 2533814, member: 475037"] [USER=551983]@ShandyT[/USER] If you have to eat every night to boost your BG level, your basal is probably too high. As [USER=372207]@Antje77[/USER] has said............if you don't eat all day or night your basal should stay sort of even keel, give or take 1-2 mmol throughout the day. Basal is only supposed to take care of what your liver makes without eating. There is also the chance if you are taking insulin in the evening, it was too strong of a dose, so you are dropping after you go to sleep. While most of your insulin works within 3 hours, it can still be working up to 6 hours after you have taken it. We can all vary day to day of course, between weather, stress, exercise, what we eat. Way too many things can affect our BG levels daily. But having to definitely eat every night is a trend, not a variable. I don't eat unless I am between 4.4 to 5.9. I am retired so I can vary when I eat and I generally do not go above 9 after eating. But being retired when I am home if I see my numbers go much above 7.2 I am usually getting on my exercise bike for at least a few minutes to stall or reverse the rise until my insulin starts to kick in. I aim to be between 5.3 to 6.5 for bedtime, although on the nights I turn off my alerts I have a tendency to aim for between 5.9 to 6.7 at bedtime. Those variables though, I say that as last night I ate some cupcake to boost my levels somewhere above the 3.9 that I seem to have wanted to stay at. My control is unusual though, considered extremely well controlled. The NICE guidelines are pretty strict. In the US, the guidelines they want you to stay is in between 3.9 to 10, 70% of the time. But I gather most type 1's in the US don't manage to do so and are more likely to be TIR between 40-50% of the time. Basal Testing [URL]https://www.mysugr.com/en/blog/basal-rate-testing/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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