Since I’ve woken up with fairly low blood sugar three mornings in a row, I’ve decided to drop my midnight to 4:00 am basal rate by 0.05 unit. I’m reduced my basal by a whole .20 units 🙂 Actually every little bit helps reduce the total.
I’ve also been slowly, from midnight back, decreasing my biggest and longest basal rate during the day. I’ve been dropping by .05 unit every half hour, and am now dropping from 9:00 pm on.
It works out pretty well, the basal rates are now
12:00 – 4:00 0.85
4:00 – 8:00 1.10 — this will be the next place I change
and I half it on cardio in the morning days
8:00 – 9:00 1.00 — this is the rate I’ve been decreasing by half
9:00 – 12:00 0.95
So things are going well.
Here’s the really good news, my daily total insulin usage has dropped to 38 – 45 units a day with an occasional excursion to 78. That’s a whole lot better than it was before I started working out regularly.
And I know I’ve lost at least 20 pounds since I discovered my scale wasn’t working.