04:54 BS 8.1 A bit disappointed!
So,so smile! Tried staying up a bit later yesterday, to have a shot at getting up at a normal time today, & made it to about 7/8pm but, at the cost of eating again! So, technically I bolused 5 times yesterday, 1st time for half oatcake & half dose to stop DP rise, with 16, 28, 24, & 20 units Novorapid. Now then, the extra 4th meal I needed: what do I bolus for that; would normally bolus the same as dinner but, decided to try 2 units lower & see what happens?So, 18 units & I wake with a slightly higher BS: conclusive!
🙄 That’s the closest of the official set of emojis to a “Ahah!” Lightbulb emoji!
Also, reconfirmed, already knew from previous experiments, how long my peak BS is after eating: it’s 90 minutes & by 2 hours is just starting to come back down. Pre bolusing before eating, only started doing in 2018 learnt from you lot here, has made a difference of 30 minutes: I used to peak higher at hours; now peak a bit lower at 90 minutes! Now, it was Monday 18/05/20 when I got that call from my GP practice nurse, not the hosp. DSN who’s care I’ve been under since Feb. 2016, who doesn’t really know me, new replacement for the other practice nurse who retired, asked me how longer after were my readings! I said 90 minutes but, no longer than 2 hours. She said that’s too short a time, went into the explanation of why test at 2 hours after; before BS still rising & after starting to fall! I didn’t contradict her. But, it’s been kind of in my mind so, I tried that experiment again. Before eating BS 6.0, 1 hour after BS 9.6, 90 minutes after BS 10.8 & 2 hours after BS 9.5. That’s why I always try to test around the 90 minutes mark but, sometimes forget, lose track of time or whatever & it’s later being 2 hours or a few minutes over. But, it still gives me a rough idea! I learnt the most about this from the thread “Avoiding Post Prandial Spikes” here:-
I've copied this over from a reply buried in another thread in case it's helpful to anyone :) The following tips are what I gleaned from a presentation by Gary Scheiner (Certified Diabetes Educator, author of Think Like A Pancreas, and type 1 himself) - this was his "Strike the Spike"...
forum.diabetes.org.uk
It’s another example of what these forums have done for & it’s never too late to learn: had been medicating then injecting insulin straight after eating for 17 years; a simple change like prebolusing has made such a difference!
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Oops!
😳 I didn’t know I was going to say all that but, I did it & I’m reporting what I did the previous day as I usually do!
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Anyways,A Very Good Morning to you all & have a Wonderful Day full of Sunshine Inside & Outside!
😉 HEY!
Just realised I haven’t said that in some time now: I suppose because I haven’t been SO Sunny on the Inside these days while trying SO hard to keep things on an even keel; things are definitely on the up if I‘m starting to feel that Sunshine again to automatically want to impart some of it to you lot!
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