..still has a peaks and valleys but mostly stayed in range 90 - 120......one day I will get that flat line!
Very impressive! As is your upper and lower settings. Looks like you have nighttime basals down, do they always stay that flat? Did you really dip to 50 or were you even lower?
My night time is my flat-est line on a daily/weekly basis....because I'm not eating and its best when I exercise in the evening then its relatively flat all night until the moment I stand up! My sugar then starts to rise....so I bolus right away about 1 unit sometimes 2 units when I wake up. About an hour later, I am leveled out again and then can eat breakfast. I'm not sure exactly what you mean regarding having my nighttime basals down.
I teach yoga and sometimes I dip lower than 50....I often take my pump off when I teach....so its an interesting challenge to keep my sugars level once I stop teaching, reconnect and I normally have to bolus for the missing insulin and then wait an hour or so before I eat.....that pattern works most of the time. Sipping juice here and there while I teach if needed.
Have a great Thanksgiving!
Oh, sorry, just meant you got them "dialed in well". "Down" can surely mean a lot of things regarding "D". :) For us, right when we're enjoying nice flatlines at night for a while, things change. Teenage hormones and all. I have to look at Nathan's basals again b/c he's rising during the night from the after affects of dinner even when he goes to bed having a good trend for a couple hours before. Like this morning we are still trying to bring down at 180 so he can have breakfast, its moving slow. I need to raise the basal for DP too, or do as you do, I still have his summer basal program going, and it doesn't work well for school days. Sounds like you have an extra challenge being yoga instructor, more than one class day, I assume. Nathan wears a patch pump so he doesn't disconnect during exercise, but sometimes have to wrap it, if he's jumping around a lot. Have a wonderful Thanksgiving also, I grew up in the Beach Cities and will be there for Thanksgiving.
When I need to get my sugar down fast....I run stairs for about 15 minutes......get my heart pumping and that will do the trick. I know it does not work for everyone but it works for me at the moment. If I am at a restaurant and can't run stairs.....I actually go into a bathroom stall and do jumping jacks or a fast jog in place for 10 minutes. It sounds crazy but it burns up my sugar and then I can eat with my friends & husband and not feel bummed out about high sugars. We do what we have to do!
Nathan uses the omni pod? I thought about it....but I love disconnecting when I want to. And the pod is a little big for me :)
Yes, Omnipod since we were first deciding about pumps we knew the next generation was going to be 30-40% smaller and flatter, but the FDA has made its debut an exercise in patience. Yes, I bet disconnecting has it advantages, another reason we picked Omnipod was Nate never like shots in abdomen, and to the day, he has not worn pod or sensor there. I like the backroom trick, sounds like something I'd do, but I can't do the jumping jacks for him, I can only suggest it, which I should probably do more often instead of correcting with insulin. Though today, not easy on a holiday week morning when a teenager wants to soak in the bliss of no school! :)) We will do a hour of cardio/resistance later today, it does seem to help the nights. :)
Mine do the same thing... flat as a pancake all night, then if I don't take a unit or two almost before I stand up it'll go up and stay up. Sisters in weirdness ;)
Me too, me too!!! I actually have what I call the vertical phenomenon, because the time doesn't matter -- I'm lower when I'm horizontal, and immediately go up once I get vertical. Happens whether I get up in the morning, or if I take a nap in the afternoon. Why settle for a lousy dawn phenomenon when you can have a snazzy vertical phenomenon????
Yup, that's it! Woke up from a nap at 40-something earlier this week. 2 skittles and 1/2 hour and I was at 80-something. Thinking about a temp -some% bolus when I nap, but haven't tried it yet. The wood's burning though ;)
Nice line!! I like the down spike instead of the usual kind!