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Permalink Reply by Capin101 on June 25, 2012 at 10:41am

Pumping insulin by Walsh suggests this is the best way to check and modify your basal rates:

Skip a meal and begin basal testing 4 hours (or however long your last bolus insulin to no longer be active) your BG should stay within +/- 30 mg/dl during your basal testing. You should test every hour or two while basal testing. If, for instance, at noon you end up going low. Then you would want to decrease your basal rate when you insulin peaks. For me, humalog last 4 hours and peaks at 2 hours. Therefore, I would lower my basal rate at 10 am.

If your make a correction, then you basal test has failed and you may wantt to consider re-doing the basal test if you think it may be of additional benefit. If you make a basal rate change I would recomend that you make the minimun change as small changes can have bigger changes then you might expect. I would also recomend that you follow the change closely for the next 2-3 days to determine if the basal change is helpful or if you should consider another change.

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Permalink Reply by Maria R. on July 5, 2012 at 7:39am

Thanks, this was just what I needed!

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