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Basal testing

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MeganN

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Morning all

I'm doing a basal test this morning to test for FHTF syndrome

When I got up I was at 7.0 is this an ok figure to start with??
 
7.0 is perfect for a basal test. Plenty of room in either direction! Hope it goes well 🙂
 
7.0 - 8.1 an hr later
 
Pretty steady so far 🙂

Will be running one myself between lunch and eve meal
 
Keep us updated!!
 
Hmmmm, well my first is 4.5mmol/L

so this might end up being a pretty short test!
 
Right so test finished

7.0 - 8.1 - 7.9 - 7.0 - 6.4 and then I had lunch 🙂
 
Not much wrong with that Megan. Looks like any post-breakfast spikes you might be seeing when you have breakfast could be more to do with dose/timing. Might be worth running the basal test again though, just to be sure 🙂

If you can't face another basal test I'd try altering dose timing for breakfast - so leave longer between injecting and eating. Start with say 15 minutes, then try 30, then try 45.

You may find (as I do) that you can leave a bolus running for 1 hour(!) before it starts reducing your BGs in the mornings.

Just involves a slightly altered morning routine.
 
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I would be happy with that!
 
everydayupsanddowns said:
Not much wrong with that Megan. Looks like any post-breakfast spikes you might be seeing when you have breakfast could be more to do with dose/timing. Might be worth running the basal test again though, just to be sure 🙂

If you can't face another basal test I'd try altering dose timing for breakfast - so leave longer between injecting and eating. Start with say 15 minutes, then try 30, then try 45.

You may find (as I do) that you can leave a bolus running for 1 hour(!) before it starts reducing your BGs in the mornings.

Just involves a slightly altered morning routine.
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I second that - I need 1 hour now I have discovered but take baby steps.
Also look at the fat thing I keep on about It may smooth the spike out.. And in response to what you asked yesterday yes Ill eat my sandwich as you do and just pick at a few nuts on the side. Or if I have cereal ill just chuck a small handfull in.. It might help.


Hows yours looking Mike!
 
Brilliant I will try injecting my plus 30mins before I eat and see what happens

The nurse still wants me to increase my basal even with these results. Which I don't think I Need

Thanks guys
 
MeganN said:
Brilliant I will try injecting my plus 30mins before I eat and see what happens

The nurse still wants me to increase my basal even with these results. Which I don't think I Need

Thanks guys
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If your holding steady through the night and those are your basal test results for morning too lunch, I wouldnt want to be changing anything either. I think youll only improve on those basal tests with a pump!
 
bennyg70 said:
I second that - I need 1 hour now I have discovered but take baby steps.
Also look at the fat thing I keep on about It may smooth the spike out.. And in response to what you asked yesterday yes Ill eat my sandwich as you do and just pick at a few nuts on the side. Or if I have cereal ill just chuck a small handfull in.. It might help.


Hows yours looking Mike!
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12.00pm - 4.5mmol/L
1.00pm -- 7.0mmol/L
2.00pm -- 8.4mmol/L


Looking very much like I might need to tweak my pattern, though I'll probably retest again tomorrow as the 4.5 -> 7.0 looks a bit sus to me and may well have been a flaky test strip at 12.00pm.
 
bennyg70 said:
If your holding steady through the night and those are your basal test results for morning too lunch, I wouldnt want to be changing anything either. I think youll only improve on those basal tests with a pump!
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Absolutely agree with that - surely if basal is holding you steady, then increasing it will cause problems not solve them?!? What was the nurse's reasoning Megan?
 

12.00pm - 4.5mmol/L
1.00pm -- 7.0mmol/L
2.00pm -- 8.4mmol/L
3.00pm -- 8.1mmol/L
4.00pm -- 7.4mmol/L


Now I'm *really* wishing I'd retested that 4.5!
 
Don't know what the nurse's reasoning was ther than I will not fit into the little box that she wants me to lol

I don't like her much. She is not my normal nurse, just the one running the basal bolus conversion course. Don't think she likes that I know more than her from here 🙂
 
Mike would you normally do basal test with low 4.5. My diabetes team say not to do as it bit low for me to do it at that rate do you not feel kinda hypo at that ??? i know i do
🙂
 
I'm happy enough with 4.5 Marier - plenty of room (even with a bit of strip error) to keep me out of 'proper' hypo territory.

I tend to treat 4 as the floor, but realise that that figure itself has a margin for error before what many HCPs consider to be an *actual* hypo (which is often more like 3.6).

Everyone's different I guess!
 
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