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Group 7-day waking average?

Roller coaster last night😱 2.5 at 1.30am I really can't remember the last time that I'd had a hypo at that time of night. Exactly same food and insulin as the night before. Not surprised that I woke with
BG of 17 because I cut back all my insulin, had a lot of Lucozade and reduced my TBR to 70% 😱 Cutting out the erythromycin (one of my gastroparesis medications ) and having non -solids during the day is causing me to fire fight hypos much more. My average BG has gone down from 7.5 to 6.5 for the past fortnight but I'm having to feed the unsulin. Doing ratio cuts today because I'm fairly happy with the basal.
 
AJLang said:
Roller coaster last night😱 2.5 at 1.30am I really can't remember the last time that I'd had a hypo at that time of night. Exactly same food and insulin as the night before. Not surprised that I woke with
BG of 17 because I cut back all my insulin, had a lot of Lucozade and reduced my TBR to 70% 😱 Cutting out the erythromycin (one of my gastroparesis medications ) and having non -solids during the day is causing me to fire fight hypos much more. My average BG has gone down from 7.5 to 6.5 for the past fortnight but I'm having to feed the unsulin. Doing ratio cuts today because I'm fairly happy with the basal.
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Sounds like the food is hitting your system faster Amanda, are you doing post-meal checks to see if the non-solids are raising your levels sooner?
 
I'm doing two hour checks after I've eaten and the BGs are very similar or even lower than pre meal for breakfast and lunch but the maximum carbs that I'm having is 15 for each of those meals. For dinner I go to bed an hour after eating and last night it had gone from 6 to 8.5 but I only bolused one unit up front, the rest was extended wave. The night before was similar levels before bed, exactly the same insulin and exactly the same food and carbs and I woke up at 5 at 6.45 am:confused: the evening meal was macaroni cheese - I eat "normal" food for dinner
 
AJLang said:
I'm doing two hour checks after I've eaten and the BGs are very similar or even lower than pre meal for breakfast and lunch but the maximum carbs that I'm having is 15 for each of those meals. For dinner I go to bed an hour after eating and last night it had gone from 6 to 8.5 but I only bolused one unit up front, the rest was extended wave. The night before was similar levels before bed, exactly the same insulin and exactly the same food and carbs and I woke up at 5 at 6.45 am:confused: the evening meal was macaroni cheese - I eat "normal" food for dinner
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Flipping diabetes! I hope the ratio adjustments do the trick and you get back to much steadier levels 🙂
 
Morning all, 5.0 today.
 
AJLang said:
I'm doing two hour checks after I've eaten and the BGs are very similar or even lower than pre meal for breakfast and lunch but the maximum carbs that I'm having is 15 for each of those meals. For dinner I go to bed an hour after eating and last night it had gone from 6 to 8.5 but I only bolused one unit up front, the rest was extended wave. The night before was similar levels before bed, exactly the same insulin and exactly the same food and carbs and I woke up at 5 at 6.45 am:confused: the evening meal was macaroni cheese - I eat "normal" food for dinner
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I watched an interesting video the other day regarding how food works in relation to insulin.
The interesting thing I noted was that high fat foods were best combated by using an increased basal from early morning until rising.
I would suspect that the macaroni which always hits the system later plus the cheese (fat) caused that massive high. With a little bit of help from the natural panic mode and over treatment of the low.
 
Northerner said:
Some very good numbers here today, feeling a little jealous! 😉
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Ha! But over the past few days I've had some high-ish numbers, mainly in the evening or just before bed. Partly I think due to the odd naughty foodstuff, but also because I thought I was coming down with the lurgy again - fortunately it hasn't so far got worse... Bloomin' diabetes, you can't trust it!

Oops, I meant to include my first post but seem to have messed it up :(
 
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Hi everyone - 8.7 - for me this morning (higher than my target of 4 - 7)

4.9 - bedtime (lower than my bedtime target of 8 - 12) - had a cheese sandwich x2 slices 36g cho but rounded down to 35g cho - meter advised 2u QA but for some reason I decided on just 1u QA
 
Good morning 11.8 a bit high but a relief after several days of night/morning hypos and I did have to guess estimate my very nice Chinese takeaway last night:D
 
AJLang said:
Good morning 11.8 a bit high but a relief after several days of night/morning hypos and I did have to guess estimate my very nice Chinese takeaway last night:D
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Very difficult to guess for Amanda, better not to overdo it after your recent lows 🙂
 
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