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Oct 22, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / BG diary help please (2) (mum2westiesGill diary)

"take a before bed, ideally a 3 am then a morning"

Last night's (21/10) basal test
 
Oct 20, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / BG diary help please (2) (mum2westiesGill diary)

Hi NRB,

novorapidboi26 said:
Now you have went to a 7-7 split................you will need to test the change..........remember Lantus takes 2-3 days to kick in, so once those 3 days is up, test the evening 7 with no food or quick acting insulin working at bed time.........take a before bed, ideally a 3 am then a morning.......

post the results..........

initial results show a rise in BG in the morning.........to quite high numbers, which must be making you feel rough........so its likely you need more overnight and into the morning, which would be a common pattern if you consider the dawn phenomenon effects.......



Thanks for your reply.

Thank you for reminding me to test the change & also how to do this. Yes I will post the results.

I've also seen rises on waking. Also at other times of the day too.
 
Oct 20, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / BG diary help please (2) (mum2westiesGill diary)

Hi sjohno,

sjohno said:
May I suggest that you change your injection sites i.e. try arms and legs and give your stomach a rest. Is your stomach lumpy?



Thank you for your reply.
I prefer to inject into my stomach & I do always use different sites. My stomach isn't lumpy. If I inject into my arms I always bruise. If I injected into my legs/thighs then that would be too near to the buttocks where I do my background insulin. I inject QA into my stomach (different sites) because that's where it absorbs the fastest.
 
Oct 18, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / BG diary help please (2) (mum2westiesGill diary)

"BG diary help please (mum2westiesGill diary)"

Carrying on from my above topic I've finally gone for it & split my lantus/BI on Wed 15/10. I was taking 14u at 10pm ish but I'm now taking 7u at 10pm ish & 7u at 10am ish.

Any help in identifying trends or any help will be greatly appreciated.

TIA
 
Oct 15, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / BG diary help please (mum2westiesGill diary)

Hi mdaddison,
Thank you for your reply.

Is there anyone else apart from glen4 & mdaddison who thinks I would be best to try doing a split with my lantus?
 
Oct 14, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Kit bags

Don't know if this would be any good
http://www.pouchforall.co.uk/
 
Oct 14, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / BG diary help please (mum2westiesGill diary)

A few more days of my diary.

Can anyone see any trends?

Any help in identifying trends and/or advice on how to improve my control would be greatly appreciated

Should I be altering my ratios & if so how many to alter at once?

Should I be altering my background?

Thank you
 
Oct 14, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Kit bags

Ditto to what Warwick has just said :-)
 
Oct 12, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / BG diary help please (mum2westiesGill diary)

Hi glen4,
Thank you for my reply/comment. Re altering my lunchtime & evening meal ratios could they both be done at the same time or am I best maybe altering the lunchtime one first then leave for a few days before altering the evening meal one?
 
Oct 8, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / BG diary help please (mum2westiesGill diary)

A few more days of my diary.

Can anyone see any trends?

Any help in identifying trends and/or advice on how to improve my control would be greatly appreciated

Thank you
 
Oct 5, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / BG diary help please (mum2westiesGill diary)

A few more days of my diary.

Can anyone see any trends?

Any help in identifying trends and/or advice on how to improve my control would be greatly appreciated

Thank you
 
Oct 2, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / BG diary help please (mum2westiesGill diary)

Can anyone see any trends

Any help in identifying trends and/or advice on how to improve my control would be greatly appreciated

Thank you
 
Sep 27, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Hypos - All Over The Place

Wondering whether I'm better reducing lantus again or even changing to levemir
 
Sep 24, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Hypos - All Over The Place

I seem to be hypoing all over the place at the moment, I could have shares with jelly babies lol.

I have been slowly reducing my lantus by 2u at a time then giving it 3+ days for it to settle & 3+ to see any effects. The last time I reduced was Sat 20/09.

I'm wondering whether a time change of lantus ie taking it in a morning rather than evening (10:30pm ish) would help - I know of somebody whos dsn suggested this why I don't really know & I know we're all different.

Can anyone see any trends

Any help in identifying trends and/or advice on how to improve my control would be greatly appreciated

Thank you
 
Sep 14, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / My BGs - lots of drops here

Can anyone see any trends?

Any help in identifying trends and/or advice on how to improve my control would be greatly appreciated

Thank you
 
Sep 7, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / My BGs - lots of drops here

Can anyone see any trends?

Any help in identifying trends and/or advice on how to improve my control would be greatly appreciated

Thank you
 
Sep 7, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / My BGs - lots of drops here

Can anyone see any trends?
 
Sep 1, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / So many things to watch our for.....

re diabetes. You can only make one change at a time but what do others usually look out for first ie basal or qa & look at re making changes
1. difference between bedtime & fasting levels
2. keeping an eye on all levels during the day ie from meal to meal
 
Sep 1, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / My BGs - lots of drops here

Yes. I agree about the rise between dinner and bed. I think it is worth trying to split your dose and seeing if that stops the rise. Once you have fully split, you may find that you need to increase your basal insulin a bit to cover the extra required to keep you stable between dinner and bed.

- Yes I might try a split & see what happens


I think that the Abbot Insulinx records carbs along with the insulin dose it recommends, and any over-rides/corrections you have made to it in the form "Dose for carbs" + "Dose for correction". However, like you, I use an Accu-Chek (in my case the Expert) which records QA taken, but not split out into what QA was for ingested carbs, and what QA was taken for correcting. In terms of inputting into the diary, it just makes it easier when reviewing to identify whether ratios are good or need tweaking.

- I also use the Accu-chek Aviva Expert meter. Do you have any suggestions for how I could input QA & corrections into the diary separately?
 
Sep 1, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / My BGs - lots of drops here

Another 3 more days of mg BGs. Hmm what to do. 1. There's a rise usually between dinner & bedtime. 2. BGs are dropping a lot between bedtime and fasting. And advice will be considered. Thank you in advance.
 
Aug 30, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Diary Entries - no carbs but insulin & carbs but no insulin

Thank you Warwick Smile
 
Aug 30, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / My BGs - lots of drops here

Hi Warwick
Re the entering the correction doese sperately is a little bit difficult with my meter. I use the accu-chek aviva adviser meter which tells me seperately how many units are required for correction & how many units are needed for the carbs. Once I press confirm it just tells me how many units to inject. Once that's done however, there doesn't seem to be any way to get it to tell you again what the split was between carbs and correction so I can't always remember all of the correction doses.
 
Aug 30, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / Diary Entries - no carbs but insulin & carbs but no insulin

What is the correct way of entering into the diary
1. no carbs eaten but an insulin correction
2. carbs eaten (ie for a hypo) but no insulin
 
Aug 29, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / My BGs - lots of drops here

Thanks for sharing NB you put me to shame with my diary Evil or Very Mad
 
Aug 28, 2014
mum2westiesGill 502 posts

Topic: General Discussion / My BGs - lots of drops here

You may want to monitor your BGs for another week or so before you decide

- not quite a week yet but here we go with a few more BGs