shiv
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
Last night I did a short basal test.
6pm - 8.3 - 43g carbs, a pasta ready meal (my mum has declared she isn't going shopping again until we've eaten everything in the freezer, lol!). I bolused the whole lot (4.5u) in one, as opposed to splitting it. Plus 1 unit to correct.
10pm - 9.7
11pm - 8.2 - this is now 5 hours since I ate and bolused, so the bolus should be out my system by now. 12u lantus.
12am - 6.8
1am - 4.8
2am - 3.4 - basal test abandoned and I had 100ml OJ and 2 chocolate biscuits, 10g carbs each.
9am - 8.5
I'm won't take anything you say as advice 🙂 I'm just wanting opinions on this - less basal needed in the late evening? I have thought about reducing my evening bolus from 1u:10g to say 1:12g to start with, but after 5 hours I was 8.2, as opposed to 8.3 pre meal, which to me says the bolus was okay - if anything, more was needed because I also gave a 1u correction before eating, but again, any suggestions/opinions/thoughts are greatly appreciated. I also suspect if I were to drop my evening bolus ratio I'd get a huge spike at some point before drifting down over the course of the evening/night, which I'm not comfortable doing.
I'm going to repeat the test either on Friday or Sunday, and I won't make any changes until then (always had it drilled into me to make changes only once you see a pattern and not a one off result). Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
edited to say that as I am on MDI, I take 2 injections of lantus a day. It almost seems to me that I could do with slightly less basal say 10am - 2am. If only I could do that on MDI!
6pm - 8.3 - 43g carbs, a pasta ready meal (my mum has declared she isn't going shopping again until we've eaten everything in the freezer, lol!). I bolused the whole lot (4.5u) in one, as opposed to splitting it. Plus 1 unit to correct.
10pm - 9.7
11pm - 8.2 - this is now 5 hours since I ate and bolused, so the bolus should be out my system by now. 12u lantus.
12am - 6.8
1am - 4.8
2am - 3.4 - basal test abandoned and I had 100ml OJ and 2 chocolate biscuits, 10g carbs each.
9am - 8.5
I'm won't take anything you say as advice 🙂 I'm just wanting opinions on this - less basal needed in the late evening? I have thought about reducing my evening bolus from 1u:10g to say 1:12g to start with, but after 5 hours I was 8.2, as opposed to 8.3 pre meal, which to me says the bolus was okay - if anything, more was needed because I also gave a 1u correction before eating, but again, any suggestions/opinions/thoughts are greatly appreciated. I also suspect if I were to drop my evening bolus ratio I'd get a huge spike at some point before drifting down over the course of the evening/night, which I'm not comfortable doing.
I'm going to repeat the test either on Friday or Sunday, and I won't make any changes until then (always had it drilled into me to make changes only once you see a pattern and not a one off result). Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
edited to say that as I am on MDI, I take 2 injections of lantus a day. It almost seems to me that I could do with slightly less basal say 10am - 2am. If only I could do that on MDI!
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