Keeping everything crossed for you Flower! {{{HUGS}}}Morning 🙂 a walloping great big 13.2 for me today my highest for ages. My bg just rose and rose through the night.
Off to the hospital now to see what the hole in my heel is doing. I hate the thought of it being there and hope my high bg is not an indication of infection.
Hope the others in the sick bay start to improve soon 🙂
Morning 🙂 a walloping great big 13.2 for me today my highest for ages. My bg just rose and rose through the night.
Off to the hospital now to see what the hole in my heel is doing. I hate the thought of it being there and hope my high bg is not an indication of infection.
Hope the others in the sick bay start to improve soon 🙂
The job of basal insulin is really only to enable your body to make use of the glucose that the liver constanly trickles out day and night in order to keep your body ticking over. It's the Bolus's job to mop up any glucose produced by food that you eat. The complication comes when you are just on basal and it's trying to do both jobs, All you can expect is that you're on a sufficient dose to bring your levels slowly down when they have risen, it can't cope with a post meal spike.
I echo what @Robin says. What should hopefully happen, once you get the basal insulin at the right dose, is that your waking levels should be nicely in range, then it will be more obvious how the meals are spiking you. At least you are heading in the right direction now, with medication that WILL work once it is all sorted. Still not entirely sure why they haven't put you straight on bolus insulin. Have they done a C-peptide test, do you know? This would show how much (if any) of your own insulin you are producing 🙂
It looks like a tricky one Jonsi. That's quite a dip in levels overnight, suggesting that your pancreas is doing quite a bit of work given that your Humulin will have expired. You might fare better on a different basal with a longer duration, like lantus, or two injections of levemir, meaning that your bedtime levels would be hopefully lower. Are you testing after meals at all?
Hi. I don't know anything about your Insulin but was wondering if it could be split into two doses .
