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All over the place

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megga

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As some may have read, last week it was touch and go with the old man flu (did get very bad though with me passing out on Saturday) but i have managed to survive that. Infact it was so bad, i never even went in my shed or garage the whole week end😱 While i was bad i still managed to control my blood sugars, infact i was on a temp 20% reduction.
But now i am all over the place.
Yesterday i woke with b/s @ 5am 12.2, taking a correction of 2 units with no food, my blood then @6.30 went up to 14, another correction 2units, all through the morning taking more and more insulin, the lowest i got it down to was 12. Lunch time, i had an Apple, Banana and a sandwich, 50 grams all together. 2 hours later my blood was at 7, then within 1/2 hour 5 then 4, so i choffed some carbs (2 lucozade tablets and a couple of belveta bickies, later it was at 4.5 so some more belvitas (4 this time) got my blood up to 7, it stayed there untill dinner, and i kept it between 6and 8 all night. Went to bed with blood at 6.5. Woke this morning and 12.8, and its not going down again:confused:

My DSN just says "look at your basel" but its not that last week i was reducing by 20% now its through the roof, infact i have increesed by 30% this morning.


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I wonder if it has anything to do with the fact that you've (probably!) been pretty inactive for a few days, so you are getting a much more pronounced rise overnight?
 
yes Northerner that's what I noticed - that it seems to start off high then take a while to get down but when it does it seems to go low.

I don't know why it's doing that but would suggest an overnight basal test may help.
 
Dont think i would want to do an overnight test just yet as its only been two nights, and putting that with my morning resistance, i would have thought it may be something else. Its almost as though my body is keeping the insulin in a bubble and then just letting it all go at once. At work all yesterday and today, so i have been quite active, just Saturday knocked me of me feet. Sunday didn't do much, did take her indoors (the slipper lady) to look at some cameras and did the cooking for the day.
 
FWIW Megga you are not the only one to have had your basal requirements rollercoaster for a few weeks. I spent most of January like that. Not sure which hormones were doing what, but things made very little sense for a good few weeks. All those extra bursts of glucose from liver/muscles (and then the lack of them) had me chasing my tail for weeks.

Sometimes you just have to firefight through illness/stress/whatevers until things settle a little and you can run a basal test properly.

Hope you manage to weather the storm.
 
FWIW?!?! another abbrev. i don't get! gaah!!
 
thank you!! it was the phrase ones I didn't get. I particularly like the explanation given for LMAO 😉
 
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