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Group 7-day waking average?

Revenge of the curry 11.7 ! Which surprised me as it was only 5.7 when I went to bed 😱
 
Northerner said:
Crikey! Things will improve I am sure Di, once you are able to exercise more 🙂 And eat fewer curries. 😉
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I was well shocked, no more curry for a while, back to being good again now! I've had my naughty blow out x
 
5.7 yesterday but down to 4.6 today...🙂
 
It's groundhog day...8.8 again! I dont' know how i can get it to lower anymore
 
5.8 on rising
 
Northerner said:
What was your reading before bed?
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Before bed I was 10.0, two hrs before that 9.5.
Is it a case of increasing my rapid a bit more so I don't hit the higher number
 
Doddy said:
Before bed I was 10.0, two hrs before that 9.5.
Is it a case of increasing my rapid a bit more so I don't hit the higher number
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It does look that way, as your basal is keeping you steady overnight - it's not intended to lower your levels (well, not by much!), so if you were to go to bed on a 7 then you might hope to wake on a 7 or thereabouts 🙂
 
Northerner said:
It does look that way, as your basal is keeping you steady overnight - it's not intended to lower your levels (well, not by much!), so if you were to go to bed on a 7 then you might hope to wake on a 7 or thereabouts 🙂
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so would you say I wasn't far off then?
 
Doddy said:
so would you say I wasn't far off then?
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That is exactly what I would say 🙂 Have a look and see what the patterns of your daily readings are telling you - you might notice that you are higher or lower at certain times of the day - these are the areas you can make adjustments for as you gain more experience.

I was looking through my first BG diary the other day and was surprised to see how long I was on fixed doses I was - it was actually about 3 months, although I had made some adjustments on the DSN's advice early on. My tendency was to go low rather than high, although thinking back I think I would deliberately take more insulin with meals to allow for snacks later on i.e. I would have a little bit more than I knew I needed to cover breakfast so that I would need a mid-morning snack to prevent myself going low, and so on through the day and evening. It was when I noticed that I was needing bthese snacks earlier and earlier that I realised I needed to reduce my doses. This conveniently coincided with my diabetes education course, which taught me about carb-counting and ratios etc.

So although you may feel as though you have been on fixed doses a long time, it's not actually that long! 🙂 You'll get there, I have no doubt. 🙂 Look at the changes already - down from regular 17-19 to 7/8/9s! Actually, it is considered better not to get your levels down too quickly, as this can be detrimental, as the body tries to adapt - a slower downward progression is preferable.
 
Northerner said:
That is exactly what I would say 🙂 Have a look and see what the patterns of your daily readings are telling you - you might notice that you are higher or lower at certain times of the day - these are the areas you can make adjustments for as you gain more experience.

I was looking through my first BG diary the other day and was surprised to see how long I was on fixed doses I was - it was actually about 3 months, although I had made some adjustments on the DSN's advice early on. My tendency was to go low rather than high, although thinking back I think I would deliberately take more insulin with meals to allow for snacks later on i.e. I would have a little bit more than I knew I needed to cover breakfast so that I would need a mid-morning snack to prevent myself going low, and so on through the day and evening. It was when I noticed that I was needing bthese snacks earlier and earlier that I realised I needed to reduce my doses. This conveniently coincided with my diabetes education course, which taught me about carb-counting and ratios etc.

So although you may feel as though you have been on fixed doses a long time, it's not actually that long! 🙂 You'll get there, I have no doubt. 🙂 Look at the changes already - down from regular 17-19 to 7/8/9s! Actually, it is considered better not to get your levels down too quickly, as this can be detrimental, as the body tries to adapt - a slower downward progression is preferable.
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I have noticed I my highest is at bedtime/after evening meal. But I am going to start having my biggest meal at luch rather than tea time see if this helps. This afternoon, I went up to 13.2 2hrs after dinner. But then 2hrs later I was down to 9. So it took 4 hrs to take me within 1mmol of where i started before my dinner.
How many units of rapid does it take to lower you by 1 mmols? and should I be doing corrective dosage or is it not appropriate in my case? I see sometimes people have a small amount to help lower that little bit.

I am pleased with the improvements so far, but would like to get them down to 5/6/7's rather than 7/8/9's.
 
going the wrong way again, 9.2
 
Oh dear 11.8 for me. Blaming very high fat dinner, I made my own low gi choc mousse.
 
10 this morning. I am blaming my first naughty treat of lemon tart at a wedding yesterday coz I have been in the good 5's for ages before today
 
pgcity said:
Oh dear 11.8 for me. Blaming very high fat dinner, I made my own low gi choc mousse.
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MeganN said:
10 this morning. I am blaming my first naughty treat of lemon tart at a wedding yesterday coz I have been in the good 5's for ages before today
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Good to see that you can both think of reasons for it - it's the unfathomable ones that are the worst! 🙂 Hope you have better levels tomorrow, be good! 😉
 
10 this morning, but a couple of 8.odds over the weekend.

Seeing DSN tonight so trying to collate the stats, do you think she will look at them from the "on track" app on my phone? she can get averages for last 7-14-28 days by mealtimes? Or should i shove all the data into a spreadsheet?

(fingers are now crossed hoping you will say the app!!)
 
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