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Group 7-day waking average?

8.2 - bedtime
6.2 - this morning

- tea & QA 18.49pm
- BI done at 22.00pm - first night of splitting BI - had 14u instead of 28u
- supper was a sandwich, 1 slice of bread (15g or could be 17g?) with corned beef
- bedtime test done 22.56pm & before having supper instead of after, also no snacks during the evening.
 
Good morning 2.9 this morning. Started at 3.1 but had dropped to 2.9 15 minutes after 2 jelly babies. My bgs are all over the place this week. I love gastroparesis!!
 
Mossey said:
Thanks Northy ! My consultant at hospital kept telling me I must not adjust my Lantus at bedtime regardless of my physical activity or food intake. I should only adjust my Novorapid. Last night I was rushing and only had beans on toast for dinner after a fairly physical day up and down ladders so reduced Lantus from around 15 to 10 units and will do an extra check mid morning to make sure I don't creep up. Usually works for me. If I had not reduced the Lantus at bedtime I would obviously have been hypo in night. I'm sure my logic is right ?!
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Yes, your logic is correct - you become more sensitive to ALL insulin when you exercise, not just the novorapid! 🙂 Would love to know where your consultant got that gem from, quite worrying that a consultant can be ignorant of this and give totally contrary advice :(
 
Obviously he's been swatting up from his c1950's text books. As I once heard said at a meeting group, doctors should not be allowed to specialise in diabetes unless they have the condition themselves !
 
Before bed @ 2.40am - 13.9
Waking test @ 7.30am - 14.3
Pre breakfast @ 9.05am - 18.5 😡

I had another bad hypo last night before tea....
 
whiskysmum said:
8.2 - bedtime
6.2 - this morning

- tea & QA 18.49pm
- BI done at 22.00pm - first night of splitting BI - had 14u instead of 28u
- supper was a sandwich, 1 slice of bread (15g or could be 17g?) with corned beef
- bedtime test done 22.56pm & before having supper instead of after, also no snacks during the evening.
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Great start.
 
Northerner said:
That's not something you hear every day! 🙂 Hope you don't get any side-effects Steff 🙂
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Lol thanks Alan taking it at 6 which is ok for Friday sat and sunday but rest of week will have to move it around gr
 
4.6 today....🙂
 
In reply to the thread aout not adjusting lantus
The general consensus seems to be that it is a tricky beast to adjust as can take 2-3 days for effects on blood glucose to become fully apparent
IMHO levemir better option for a lot of people although often needs to be split
Can understand consultant advising patients to be wary of adjustments but what does he expect patient to do if persistanly hypoing and none of their diabetes healthcare team around to grant the patient "permission" to reduce dose
grrr
 
Abi said:
In reply to the thread aout not adjusting lantus
The general consensus seems to be that it is a tricky beast to adjust as can take 2-3 days for effects on blood glucose to become fully apparent
IMHO levemir better option for a lot of people although often needs to be split
Can understand consultant advising patients to be wary of adjustments but what does he expect patient to do if persistanly hypoing and none of their diabetes healthcare team around to grant the patient "permission" to reduce dose
grrr
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I get so confused on this one. Im kind of of the thinking now that the lantus I take tongiht will be the lantus being used by my body in 2 or 3 days. The lantus working away now, is the lantus I injected 2 or 3 days ago... Therefore unless i adjust my dose now for exercise i do in 2 or 3 days then i dont.... Thats just my understanding.. But the whole thing confuses me to be perfectly honest.
 
hi all. very odd one for me this morning: 15.4. this is highest it has been for a long time and certainly not in sync with what readings have been doing since i adjusted my overnight basal (which has seen readings ofaround 4-7). Very odd. I can only assume it's the cold I've got combined with not giving enough correction yesterday at dinner - which is a problem I've noticed with my bolus calculator (ie it's started giving waaaay out suggestions for correctional doses, I think there's a fault with my meter. was going to raise with my DSN who was meant to call this morning- as I've noticed this happening a lot recently- but surprise surprise she hasn't called).
 
bennyg70 said:
I get so confused on this one. Im kind of of the thinking now that the lantus I take tongiht will be the lantus being used by my body in 2 or 3 days. The lantus working away now, is the lantus I injected 2 or 3 days ago... Therefore unless i adjust my dose now for exercise i do in 2 or 3 days then i dont.... Thats just my understanding.. But the whole thing confuses me to be perfectly honest.
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Personally, I didn't really experience any of this 'persistence' with lantus - an adjustment came into play straight away, much as people say happens with levemir. I wonder if it has anything to do with the size of the doses? I was on very small doses most of the time.

I think what happens with some people is not that a change doesn't have an immediate impact, it's just that the full impact isn't experiences until a couple of days on the adjusted dose.
 
3.7 at 06.40 after being 3.9 at 02.17, 5.2 before bed.
 
4.1 at bedtime, 4.4 this morning and no hypo last night as far as I can tell. No hangover at least.
 
Morning all... 6.1 on waking after a night of indulgence on a pizza and half an easter egg... spent the night floating round the 10s think i got lucky with some high over corrections before bed.
 
Morning. 8 this morning. 7.1 at bedtime and low Lantus because small dinner again but forgot dry roasted nuts in pub Dreadful things for raising levels ! Love your levels Alan !
 
Hypo after last nights dinner (ate out.....tricky carb count) 6.2 before bed, 7.7 at 03.00, 6.2 this morning 🙂
 
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