IDK, Sam...i just did a trial CGM last week for 7 days..and it was all over the place, told me i was low, like dropping to 40's when I wasn't..sometimes it was close..but it might just mess you up a bit right now? One's not supposed to correct or go off what the CGM says (it's used to show 'trends')..but it's hard not to when you see arrows going down, down, down and alarms going off. I'm still relatively new at this, just coming out of my honeymoon, really..and things have been more stable. It took at least a year and I am still very insulin sensitive.
It matters too where you're starting at at the meal. Check at the one hour mark..see what's happening. Again, if you're coming down then that's good. Your basal ties into this too. As this disease progresses and our beta cells die off totally, where I'm at now, if I don't match my carbs with insulin, I don't come back down..that's when we do the corrections and with time and experience, we learn to know how and 'when' to do those corrections.
That's great that your doc has experience, hands on, with Type 1, that's invaluable..great for you.
How do you feel? Do you feel those spikes...I guess that matters too?
I think there are a number of honeymooners who just are using bolus w/meals if their fasting numbers are good. It sounds like they (you) caught this very early. I was DKA, put on both..then honeymooned and I too was so insulin sensitive, everything was lowered. I decided to just do basal, my fasting numbers, (the second phase of this) were really high too. I did small amounts of basal and just basically no carbs because I didn't want to bolus..didn't last too long, eventually everything effects blood sugars and I was too skinny anyway.
Maybe that would be a good thing...just bolus if your fasting numbers are still good????
Starting tomorrow will be on zero basal. Hopefully it works out. Have a question-- my current Lantus pen is almost full. I know they say not to refrigerate after using-- but it would be a shame to wait for the 28 days to pass and throw away this much insulin. Anyone have any experience good or bad breaking the rules and putting a used pen back in the fridge?
You got me. I assume it just protects it to keep it refrigerated, keep it from being exposed to hot temps and to potential contaminants. I just always kept mine there because it's as good a place as any.
I do the same thing, just put it back in the frig, toss after 28 days. I take my insulin out about 10 minutes before I inject as I've heard room temp insulin doesn't burn so much, IDK, then just put it back in frig.
I know what you mean Sam 19. Will we stay at 170 for 2 hours without a corrections? or What if BG were to come down anyway? in this latter scenario, would be be looking at a BG that’s too low?
I’m still trying to figure this out with those problematic meals.
I can relate to this, because I often have to eat on the run or at a restaurant. I try to order super low carb things as much as possible, then the carby things like potatoes I have learned to carb count by size of fist, size of a baseball, etc., which you can find cheat sheets on line for estimating carb counts. So at a burger place for example, I’ll order a protein-style burger (lettuce leaves instead of bun) with all the condiments (other than ketchup they are almost zero), then eat no more than a fist size of fries for a total of about 40g. It’s normal for BG to go as high as 180, but if you see it last longer than 2 hours, best to do a small correction. Just a small one though, because you probably still have some insulin still in your system and you don’t want to go low.
