Will changing basal settings on the medtronic punp have an effect on my sugar?

dian2007 said:

Hi, I'm using the medtronic insulin pump (MiniMed 780G) and SmartGuard is active, but I still continue to climb between 10:00 and 12:00 everyday.
I was wondering if I can change some setting in my "Basal" category, but I dont know if it whould have a effect if smartguard is running

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Hi dian2007, welcome to the forum.
I think we have very few members using the 780G with Smartguard, I hope someone will be able to answer your question.

I don't know if you use Facebook, but if you do, there is a very active group on this subject, they may be better suited to help you out.

Hi @dian2007 Welcome to the forum.

I'll tag @Nicola M who uses this.

dian2007 said:

Hi, I'm using the medtronic insulin pump (MiniMed 780G) and SmartGuard is active, but I still continue to climb between 10:00 and 12:00 everyday.
I was wondering if I can change some setting in my "Basal" category, but I dont know if it whould have a effect if smartguard is running

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Hi dian2007,

not sure I'm the best person to try to help with this. I've been using the 780g with SmartGuard for a bit over a month now. When I first started using it, it was good but my BS would stay between 8 and 10 a lot of the time, which is a bit higher than I like. I would also occasionally go up to 11 or 12 and stay there for a few hours. There are two settings that helped me with this - the first is setting the target. Mine was originally set for 6.1. I changed it to 5.5. That helped a bit. I also changed the Active Insulin Time from 3 hours to 2.5 hours. That helped a lot. I've since lowered that further to 2 hours. That seems to work best for me.

Please let us know how you get on! It's good to hear other people's experience.