I started with Insulin (Novorapid) in my pump last Wednesday and on Friday night started doing my fasting tests to see what happened to my BG while on a background Basal set at 0.375 unit/hour, as recommended by my Diabetes team from my previous MDI recordings.
So far I have done 2 night time, 3 morning and 1 afternoon test but the results have surprised me. Basically on 0.375units/hour my BG level never goes up or down my more than 1mmol. So it appears, from the results I have so far, that I will only need one Basal rate of 0.375. I know it’s early days yet and I have a lot more testing to do but does this sound right, I expected my BG and therefore my Basal rate to fluctuate up and down during a 24 hour period.
It all depends, I am using the pod. When I started I was on .80 units per hour which was way high I am currently on .65 u/hr throughout the whole day. Everyone is different and their ratios may change several times a day when others only need a single rate.
Oh, it will all depend on you. I started pumping three months ago. I was at .8 units an hour all day long. At about six or seven weeks that changed. I now have about four different basal rates. The big changes were the ones when I was sleeping. BG was too high and had to higher the basal at certain times during the night.
I just found this discussion as I have been tweaking my basal rates recently. And basically I am tweaking towards a single rate.
Now my rates vary from 0.4 - 0.6 …
It makes me think that I am one of those that could get just as good control on MDI as on the pump. I might try switching back to MDI and see. While I like some features of the pump, it’s possible that the pump provides the most assistance to those with very variable basal rates throughout the day.
