Ok so I started at mid day, 5 hours after my last bolus and breakfast. I was on 10 and I tested every hour as I was so hungry all the time . Each hour I had come down by 1 mmol/l , so 1pm to 9, 2 pm to 8, and 3 pm to 7.
Yes, it’s something that my db has been asking me to as well as Barbera here suggesting that I do one. Having seen over the last week or so before my lunch that I started to drop much quicker than usual just before lunch and I’m having trouble getting my breakfast back down, I decided that I really must make the effort to get a test in. Seems I may be right but it will mean me raising my breakfast and dinner ratios. But I’ll sort one thing out at a time.
Yes it certainly seems that. Thanks Lucyr
Hi Lucyr I was already sure that my afternoon had come down. Todays was looking at what was happening in the morning. That is the only way I can do it by splitting it into sections ie morning, afternoon, evening and night because of my work pattern. Don’t worry I’ve read up alot about doing them . It’s quite surprising mind how it varies across different NHS trusts and other long time diabetics and professionals. There was one NHS trust down in Torbay that said you can eat an egg salad with no carbs if you get too hungry while carrying it out!
Yes I understand that the first basal test was afternoon and this one was morning, but you can’t do a basal test on the day you change your basal dose. You need to give a few days for the new basal dose to settle first, and to have a normal day of eating first after missing a meal for the first test.
Surely if you’re on Levemir, the three days to bed in doesn’t apply? (I thought that was just the super long lasting ones like Tresiba) I tweak my Levemir on a daily basis, depending on what I'm doing/have done that day. I can understand the leaving it a day to allow your body to adjust from skipping a meal the day before, if you’re being scrupulous, but with all the other variables, I wouldn’t think this would have enough impact to invalidate a test on its own.
Ah I thought that was the case with levemir. But Now im confused about being able to do this. There just no way I could do it over a week or two as I’m having to adjust my basal for physical work at the weekend where I do more and all day possibly for both days anyway, I also get very stressful and emotional days pretty regularly due to a daughter with severe mental health problems so I can’t find a basal base for want of a better word to work from for long enough. So for that day my basal won’t be enough and by the next day I adjust up for the stress and she comes down so I don’t need it . This why I find it so difficult to fit it in. Even if I say planned a weeks of no work to do it , I can guarantee that I’ll be making calls to emergency services , social workers etc on at least two or three days sometime more.
Ooh wish I could do that. I get too hungry and as a skinny bean I need me calories. But had to take advantage of the rare time I had to do bits especially the afternoon just to confirm my suspicions when for a few days I had to have lunch later than usual and noted the rate that I was coming down after my breakfast bolus had cleared off before I got my lunch in 2 hours later while sat of my backside doing paper work and extreamly ravenous lol.
