Comment by acidrock23 on May 12, 2012 at 9:20am

Not pretty awesome but supercalifragilistically awesome! Way to go Jen!

I run into problems if I've got IOB at bedtime as I'm like "oh no, it's going down" but maybe my metabolism is slowing or something like that and it takes a LONG time to come down so I'll eat more and then wake up high, or bolus and eat more. Or sometimes "eat" more "liquid bread"?

It looks like it was going up pretty steeply at that time and, if you'd have fixed that, perhaps the AM would have worked out too? Although, of course, that's hugely dangerous and risky and not approved by the CDA or ADA or anyone else?

Comment by Jen on May 12, 2012 at 10:02am

I think it may have been going up AND I'd exercised that evening so I put a -10% basal on overnight, and it seems I didn't need that.

Comment by acidrock23 on May 12, 2012 at 10:34am

In those situations (72 @ 9:16 and 115 @ 10:27, w/o knowing anything else, I'd probably try to get some sort of correction on it. Sometimes what I'll do for a "gentler" correction is turn up my basal-- a lot of times, I'll do 200% and set it for 2 hours-- and check in an hour to see if it's coming around or has at least stopped going up, which is what I want? If it's 120 and not going up and I have .4U on board from the pre-turnoff basal, I will feel ok about it? Great job again though, I'm glad your work had paid off for you!

Comment by Jen on May 12, 2012 at 11:06am

I get nervous going to bed below about 6.0 because I find it easy to go low if I do, so I don't tend to correct anything lower than about 8 before bed, especially if I've exercised ... If I go low overnight I don't have anything to wake me up unless I wake up on my own, which happens when I hit the 2s (30s and 40s). I think if I had a CGM that would alarm if I went low I would be more aggressive about running lower and correcting "potential" highs and stuff.

I corrected the 13.8 this morning and now I'm down to 6.5 with a ton of insulin on board (3u) so hopefully today will be another good one! I am debating whether to have a small snack or wait to see if I go low.

Comment by acidrock23 on May 12, 2012 at 11:20am

That's a tough call. I'm always getting apprehensive about IOB but, a lot of times, if I "eat to IOB", I run up? Maybe some protein, jerky or something like that? That'd again be a situation where I'd probably test again in 1/2 hour, depending on what the CGM was doing and how credibly it was behaving.

Comment by Jen on May 12, 2012 at 12:28pm

I ended up taking my pump off for about half an hour, eating a glucose tablet, and a piece of cheese ... I still ended up at 3.1 two hours later. Hopefully today doesn't turn out to be a rollercoaster day!

Comment by Pastelpainter on May 12, 2012 at 6:15pm

Congratulations, Jen. So good to hear after the struggles you have had.

Comment by Jen on May 12, 2012 at 6:36pm

Thanks! Though today hasn't been so good (one reading in range so far, and that was just one I happened to catch on its way between high and low). Hopefully tomorrow will be better! Now that I know I can do this once, I want to do it again. ;)

Comment by acidrock23 on May 12, 2012 at 8:03pm

It can be very addictive! Nice catch w/ the glucose tablet/ cheese combo! That's a good approach and, again, very close to perfect. Is your race coming up soon?

Comment by Jen on May 12, 2012 at 8:31pm

Nope, already did it! Although I ended up walking most of it (I'd signed up for the walking group anyway). It rained here pretty much non-stop until May so I didn't get any practice in beforehand (though I did get in the habit of riding my stationary bike daily). Then I woke up with a BG of 21.5 on the morning of so was nervous of exercising too intensely. I was with other people who wanted to walk, and with my asthma kicking in again recently (after being a complete non-issue, no medication or anything, for like 10 years) I can't run ten minutes non-stop without feeling like I can't breathe. I will sign up next year again for sure, though, and this time I WILL actually seriously try to jog it!

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