Group 7-day waking average?

[everydayupsanddowns]

Good morning folks 🙂
Chilly start to the day again 🙄
A 6.1 for me this morning after a bedtime sesh of 16g unbolused for carbs, I just don't know what to do 🙄
Hope you all have a lovely day whatever you are doing! xx

Have you been reducing your basal Kaylz? Seems like you may need less basal insulin at the moment if you are needing 4-5mmol/L’s worth of carbs overnight to keep your BGs up. I know I’ve had to reduce my basal recently (though I am having to nudge it up again at the moment)

 

[Ljc]

Good morning everyone. I’ve not read any posts yet so I hope all is well with you.

Had a bit of a shock when I woke up .
Was 4.2 when I was ready to go to bed so I had 1 gingernut and I shot up to 7.6 and woke to 9.6


My line is dead funny too.

 

[Kaylz]

Have you been reducing your basal Kaylz? Seems like you may need less basal insulin at the moment if you are needing 4-5mmol/L’s worth of carbs overnight to keep your BGs up. I know I’ve had to reduce my basal recently (though I am having to nudge it up again at the moment)

I only reduced it to 1 unit a couple of weeks ago!! xx

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

I only reduced it to 1 unit a couple of weeks ago!! xx

Haha! Yes. Mine often seems to do the same. Steady reductions needed over a couple of weeks, then it almost seems like I have to go ‘too far’ to stop hypos/falling BGs and then (after a couple of reasonable days) often have to bounce things back up again. My basal needs rarely stay fixed for very long - Something I have certainly noticed since wearing sensors off and on as I can see what is going on in all the gaps. 3-4 adjustments a month is
perfectly normal for me, and I can see my body suddenly reacting differently to exactly the same foods after several days of consistently being fine.

In your shoes I would just run with it and take it down another 10% (or whatever the nearest number of units would be) and then be prepared to tweak it back up again after a bit if needed. It’s a pain, but that seems to be part of the game. Alternatively you can eat/not eat the snack and leave your doses the same if you’d prefer that, but forced eating (or not eating!) to feed/match fixed insulin seems a bit odd to me these days.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Aha! I just re-read and you reduced TO one unit not BY 1 unit! Looks like you are doing a Northie, and whatever fragment of insulin production you still have seems to be enough to keep you going overnight. Have you tried with none? Could it be your evening meal dose acting for a long time and the tail of it reducing your BG at/around midnight-2am?

 

[Kaylz]

Haha! Yes. Mine often seems to do the same. Steady reductions needed over a couple of weeks, then it almost seems like I have to go ‘too far’ to stop hypos/falling BGs and then (after a couple of reasonable days) often have to bounce things back up again. My basal needs rarely stay fixed for very long - Something I have certainly noticed since wearing sensors off and on as I can see what is going on in all the gaps. 3-4 adjustments a month is
perfectly normal for me, and I can see my body suddenly reacting differently to exactly the same foods after several days of consistently being fine.

In your shoes I would just run with it and take it down another 10% (or whatever the nearest number of units would be) and then be prepared to tweak it back up again after a bit if needed. It’s a pain, but that seems to be part of the game. Alternatively you can eat/not eat the snack and leave your doses the same if you’d prefer that, but forced eating (or not eating!) to feed/match fixed insulin seems a bit odd to me these days.

What I mean is I am only on 1 unit as it is so reducing it further would mean taking none whatsoever, my DSN thought this may happen but I'm not to do it until I've discussed things which I wont be able to see them until the 3rd week in May, I'd rather just continue with eating all the biscuits as it may help with the weight that I need to put on xx

 

[Kaylz]

Aha! I just re-read and you reduced TO one unit not BY 1 unit! Looks like you are doing a Northie, and whatever fragment of insulin production you still have seems to be enough to keep you going overnight. Have you tried with none? Could it be your evening meal dose acting for a long time and the tail of it reducing your BG at/around midnight-2am?

I take my last rapid at 4:30 and inject that into my stomach, my bedtime test is just before 10 so it SHOULD be fully out of my system, sorry I was typing my other reply when you answered! haha xx

 

[Bloden]

Morning all.🙂 7.2 here.😛

Rain?!! Oh well, I had a lovely walk at the beach yesterday in the sunshine so I can’t complain.

Good luck with everything move-related, MikeyB.😛

 

[Grannylorraine]

5.7 for me, so pleased with that.

 

[Ditto]

Morning. A 7 for me which is more like it, coming down slow but sure. 🙂

Have a good day all.

 

[Lanny]

Yay! Got the DSN on the phone & I will reduce Levemir by 1 from 29 to 28 & will do some more trampolining later! Can reduce to 27 if needs be over the weekend! 🙂

Good luck with your call @New-journey! 🙂

 

[Kaylz]

5.7 for me, so pleased with that.

Your doing amazingly well lately hun, you can tell that its making you happier too, well done 🙂 xx

 

[New-journey]

Yay! Got the DSN on the phone & I will reduce Levemir by 1 from 29 to 28 & will do some more trampolining later! Can reduce to 27 if needs be over the weekend! 🙂

Good luck with your call @New-journey! 🙂

Thanks and glad you got the result you needed. I just started a thread as so upset after mine!

 

[Kaylz]

Yay! Got the DSN on the phone & I will reduce Levemir by 1 from 29 to 28 & will do some more trampolining later! Can reduce to 27 if needs be over the weekend! 🙂

Good luck with your call @New-journey! 🙂

Glad to see you managed to get a hold of your DSN quickly, good luck with the reduction 🙂 xx

 

[mikeyB]

Morning folks. I’m sitting down feeling a bit stressed, waiting for money to appear in Scotland and fly down the wires to England, and all before Pickfords turn up at the new property to be let in it’s a bit hair raising. A complication is the keys are secured at the property, but the guy who could gain access isn’t in today. I assume a deputy could be arranged. We’ll see.

Anyway, after a Chinese takeaway last evening, my morning BG was 5.5.

So if nothing else, all these shenanigans are good for diabetic control🙂

 

[grovesy]

Morning folks. I’m sitting down feeling a bit stressed, waiting for money to appear in Scotland and fly down the wires to England, and all before Pickfords turn up at the new property to be let in it’s a bit hair raising. A complication is the keys are secured at the property, but the guy who could gain access isn’t in today. I assume a deputy could be arranged. We’ll see.

Anyway, after a Chinese takeaway last evening, my morning BG was 5.5.

So if nothing else, all these shenanigans are good for diabetic control🙂

Hope it gets sorted soon.

 

[Heath o]

Good morning 🙂 7.7 for me today, no idea why Possibly the shock of hearing a close friend and neighbour was found dead in the New Forest yesterday, which followed the news that my Auntie had died on Sunday

Sorry to hear of your losses northener

 

[Northerner]

Sorry to hear of your losses northener

Thank you, @Heath o 🙂

 

[Heath o]

Good morning 🙂 7.7 for me today, no idea why Possibly the shock of hearing a close friend and neighbour was found dead in the New Forest yesterday, which followed the news that my Auntie had died on Sunday

Sorry to hear of your losses northener

Thank you, @Heath o 🙂

Your welcome Northerner it never easy losing people close to you,

 

[Wirrallass]

Crumbs😱 My waking was a very rare whopping 9.4 for me today😱 but not surprised considering.....🙄