Helping out PLEASE join in - full day test results

[Kaylz]

I'm glad so many have already joined in and hope others do too 🙂 I will update every night after my tea reading as I'm never on after my bed time test so if any of the rest of you would like to continue it too please do feel free 🙂 x

 

[Amberzak]

It's really useful. It's true, it's not really possible to stay within 5 and 7 all day for most of us.

Thanks for being honest. It's really helpful to see everyone else's readings.

 

[ohitsnicola]

Just tested and was a 9.0 x

 

[ohitsnicola]

At the moment my ratios are breakfast 1:12, lunch 1:14 and dinner/tea 1:12 so I take 2.5 units for a 29g carb breakfast so we are looking at the possibility of a 1:14 for breakfast too, crazy to think when I came out of hospital they had me on set units of 4 and then 6 for a month until I started carb counting and I never had a hypo then (although we think I did during the night on a couple of occasions) then the problems started when I was on a standard 1:10 ratio lol xx

Well that's confusing lol. Could you not change yourself or do you not have the confidence yet xx

 

[grainger]

Here's today:

7.16 - 7.3
11.15 - 4.6
13.27 - 5.2
15.28 - 8.7
16.02 - 10.5
20.52 - 12.3
22.25 - 6.2

The spike is due to a stupidly huge over indulgence of malteasers... v tasty tho! 🙂

 

[ohitsnicola]

Everyone is commenting about spikes and I wouldn't even class them as spikes lol x

 

[SB2015]

Here are mine for last week, with a focus on premeal readings and others shown in between.
No Libre active at present so not sure what is happening in between, which is fine for now.

 

[Northerner]

Here are mine for 21/5/17:

05:05 - 6.2
10:55 - 7.8
17:20 - 3.9
21:30 - 4.1

Usually test more often e.g. post-meal tests, but didn't yesterday for some reason! 🙂

 

[Greyhound Gal]

Here are my past 2 days. No libre on at the mo so feeling bereft.
21/5
Waking 3.8 ( this was final libre reading so was actually probably more like high 5s)
8:25 - 6.8
11am (after shopping) - 6.3
Didn't do any in the afternoon 😳
7:25pm before dinner - 5.8
10:35 Before bed - 8.0 (there's that pesky rich tea biscuit!)

22/5
Waking -6.0
Before brekkie (big bowl porridge, bolus 40 mins before) - 7.3
Mid archery reading - about 11am - 8.0
After archery at 12:15 - 5.7
Again none in afternoon 😳
7pm before dinner - 5.7
10pm Before bed - 5.3

These are both pretty good days for me.

 

[Kaylz]

Well that's confusing lol. Could you not change yourself or do you not have the confidence yet xx

Not too confident on it yet although it was me that changed my breakfast in the first place due to too many hypos and it was a weekend so nobody to get in touch with lol xx

 

[Sprogladite]

I will join in on this once my basal is switched lol...my numbers for the last few days have been atrocious! 😳

 

[trophywench]

Kaylz - just do it and knock another half unit off your brekkie dose. Good God woman - if you're high for a couple of hours until you test again - it ain't gonna harm you - whereas having hypos all over the place might. It will either work or not !

 

[Kaylz]

Kaylz - just do it and knock another half unit off your brekkie dose. Good God woman - if you're high for a couple of hours until you test again - it ain't gonna harm you - whereas having hypos all over the place might. It will either work or not !

I tried a bit more testing today but I just cant figure out what to do with the results yet haha I'm no good at this at all I end up a bit higher than starting point 4 hours later but dropped within an hour of eating so don't see how reducing the bolus would have me anywhere near the pre meal if I go higher than pre meal with what I'm doing now this stuff confuses me too much 🙄 x

 

[Sprogladite]

Ok mine for today (as they're alright lol):

3am this morning - 6.8 (ate one x kit kat cookies n cream, 2 x gulps of lucozade - ongoing issue with basal causing severe hypos)
Waking (7:13) - 7.6
Pre breakfast - 6.1
Post breakfast - 5.1
11:00am - 6.3
11:30am - 7.8
Pre lunch - 6.4

Not horrendous but I did go for a walk inbetween the 11:30 and pre lunch injections as I was creeping up. I also use a libre so only a couple of the above have been verified with a finger prick. This is a nice contrast to yesterday and Saturday where I spent both days between 10 & 20 lol

 

[trophywench]

Why is it necessary to get back to where you were, at every mealtime ?

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Why is it necessary to get back to where you were, at every mealtime ?

No sure it's necessary, but it is one of the things I look for as a check that my insulin:carb ratio is working at whatever time of day. Not that I stress very much if it isn't because of all the variables and factors involved - not least the potential differences in the readings themselves which could easily skew things if we assume they are all always 100% accurate.

I tend to find it more helpful to treat results within 1-2 mmol/L of each other as being 'more or less the same'. But then try to keep within 4-10 as much as I can, and try to have as few readings <4 as I can manage

 

[Kaylz]

Not back exactly but somewhere close, I'm scared to even change my breakfast haha and i am really starting to get fed up of granola i can tell you!! lol x

 

[Sprogladite]

Not back exactly but somewhere close, I'm scared to even change my breakfast haha and i am really starting to get fed up of granola i can tell you!! lol x

You need to try those breakfast bites I sent you the recipe for!! Lol xxxx

 

[Kaylz]

No sure it's necessary, but it is one of the things I look for as a check that my insulin:carb ratio is working at whatever time of day

That's along the lines of what i was thinking but couldn't figure out how to word haha x

 

[Kaylz]

You need to try those breakfast bites I sent you the recipe for!! Lol xxxx

I would probably eat that bake recipe for lunch or dinner though 🙂 xxxx