Toys back in the pram?

[everydayupsanddowns]

I’ve had a week or two of erratic and frustrating blood glucose numbers, particularly around evening meals, but also around dog walking. All things I am well used to dealing with... and all of my regular tweaks and adjustments to basal and ratios that ‘usually work’ (ha!) to resolve wobbles and drifts in my BG were doing nothing.

Bouncing in both directions, and very hard to see the wood for the trees.

And then suddenly, the day before yesterday, having unset many of the changes I had tried... things more or less clicked back into place and I’ve had half as much ’time in range’ again as I was seeing during the chaos. I am behaving exactly the same, but now it is working much much better.

I can’t really explain it... and I’m not sure there are any lessons to learn, except as a reminder of the complex interactions of those 42 factors that can affect BG.

That and sometimes our diabetes will just go off on one!

 

[Ljc]

I am glad to hear that things are getting back to normal again.

Diabetes sure keeps us on out toes at times doesn’t it.

 

[Sally71]

Glad it’s behaving again now, it's annoying when it goes off on one for no obvious reason isn’t it!

Actually can I ask, how many finger pricks do you do these days? Since having Dexcom and a pump that no longer forces you to do a finger prick every time you bolus, we seem to have fallen into doing hardly any at all 😳 Should we still be doing finger pricks in order to calculate boluses do you think? Or just occasional checks that the sensor hasn’t lost its marbles or if the reading doesn’t match how daughter feels? The few checks we have done have been spot on with the sensor. Some exactly the same and others only 0.1 out! We had phone consultation with the hospital team yesterday and I completely forgot to ask!

 

[Schrodinger]

Are! the joys of diabetes, when things go Pete Tong for no real reason then the wind changes direction or you put you favourite socks on and all settles.

 

[Lanny]

I’m still going a patch of that myself as I had to increase doses recently & now having to reduce them again! I’ve had to test 10+ times a day!

 

[helli]

This has happened to me enough times that when I start tinkering with my basal patterns on my pump, I start by creating a copy of my existing basal (if only I could do that in one command) and then tinker with the copy. That way, I can go back to the original when everything returns to normal.
It has the advantage that if I workout why things were temporarily different and I see the same scenario, I have a ready-made basal pattern to use.

 

[Kaylz]

Having that myself at the moment, yesterday was great and didn't go over 8.2mmol, this morning wake lower so precautionary glucose chews, spike to about 9.5 after breakfast, really fed up of it to be fair xx

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

@Kaylz I blame the ole autumn changeroo! Doses and factors often need a tweak or two at this time of year for me... but it helps of the Diabetes Fairy doesn’t stick her oar in with added no-two-days-the-same randomness while you are experimenting!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

(if only I could do that in one command) and then tinker with the copy.

Both of my recent pumps have allowed copy-paste or duplicating of patterns. Shame yours doesn’t. It’s a very handy feature!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Actually can I ask, how many finger pricks do you do these days? Since having Dexcom and a pump that no longer forces you to do a finger prick every time you bolus, we seem to have fallen into doing hardly any at all

In the first few weeks I kept to my old pattern of 4-5 a day, but more recently - because I am getting such good data from Dexcom G6 - that is falling away to 1-2 a day and/or whenever a result seems a bit weird.