pawprint91
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- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
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I feel the same as you - if it makes the graph look better by intercepting the lows (and the occasional high) then for me, it's worth it. I'm glad it happens to others, too.It's the algorithm used to try to cut down the time lag between blood and interstitial glucose which causes it and I don't mind at all that it does it because it means less red on my graph and if I hadn't reacted to that Libre low, by eating JBs and stopping the drop, I certainly would have been in the red. I just wish it reduced my occasional highs too, but it never seems to work like that above range.
I use Fiasp rather than NR, not that it is much quicker for me as both are sluggish but what I like about Fiasp is that it is gone in 3 hours for me, often less whereas NR would take the full 5 hours to work. What I dislike is that once my levels get into double figures, it seems to turn to water, so I have to stack corrections to make it effective. This works fine for me and I just ensure that I have a couple of JBs at the ready just in case I need to steady the drop if I get to close to the bottom end of my range when the corrections eventually kick in, but it took months for me to gain the confidence (more like reach a point of significant frustration) to just keep jabbing one correction after another until levels stop going upwards and eventually turn downwards. I am not recommending others do this but it is what works for me. I need more Fiasp than I did NR to do the same job but that shorter activity time is a real bonus for me and I only need 45mins prebolus time at breakfast as oppose to 75 mins with NR, which was just impractical. 45mins is manageable. I would not recommend Fiasp to anyone as it can be frustrating and tricky in my experience, but that slight benefit over NR of it just being active for 3 hours for me just tips the balance.
I only asked re: the insulin as you mentioned it taking ages to kick in and then dropping like a stone which is what can sometimes happen to me on NR (it certainly did yesterday), but sometimes I stack corrections in a desperate bid to stop a climb, which I do know is a bit of a no-no. On none working days, I have the same problem re: NR for breakfast, can take ages to kick in and you have to eat at that sweet spot otherwise I find myself dropping!
I was 6.6 this morning, more preferable to yesterday's 7.6 - I gave extra evening basal which I think helped, but then had one of my random climbs before bed, so dropped in a unit of novorapid when I noticed it was creeping above 9 at a steady rate - that obviously dropped me to 6. something and I had a fairly steady line all night from then on according to the graph until my usual rise at about 6. However, I think I should have upped my morning basal too as I sit to write this my high alarm is going off ... but got a more active day tomorrow so will just live with it for today I suppose!