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I changed my basal’s anyway. I went through a basal test, realized my activity level was WAY down watching the clock, and even had a few minor spikes. I find doing basal tests very stressful, which probably invalidates them.

So I have dropped my basal from 8:00 – 12:00 by .05 unit ANYWAY and have seen some improvement in my morning fasting level. That means I’ve reduced my basal by only .20 units anyway… My philosophy is very slow and cautious changes.

I’ve also set up a second exercise basal rate.

So now I have 3 basals. One for not exercising in the morning. One for exercising at 6:00-7:00 and one for exercising for 8:00 – 9:00. That’s working out a WHOLE lot better.

I’ve lost 20 pounds now, with the help of iShape. It’s a really neat program, and I’ve been very happy with it. I can change my membership on the 16th, and I’m going to go with a full year.

I woke up this morning at 101. It’s just TOO close to 100 to make me happy. Plus I had to treat a low last evening with candy before I went to bed …

SO,

I’ve added a new basal time period (I tried this before the 1 week work shop and ended up going back to the old basal rate) from 8:00 pm to 12:00 midnight, and I have backed down the basal from 1.00 to 0.05. That means I’ll be decreasing my TDD by a whole .20 unit

I’m going to give it a few days, see how it goes and then try to do a basal test.

I just don’t want to risk waking up TOO low in the morning.

It’s working VERY well. My blood sugar was around 112 this morning –a tad high, but I went to bed with it at 220, and didn’t want to correct and risk a low. (I’ve only fixed the night basal).

I’m probably going to end up backing down on the daytime insulin too. I’m still a bit low in the late afternoon and in the evening.
I’ve done a lot of “cushioning with my boluses”. I had a salad and only did enough insulin for the dressing in the afternoon, and didn’t bolus at all for a salad I ate before agility class.

I also probably need to start using my temp basal with agility class. I’m on my feet most of Maggie’s class, and moving a lot, since we’re starting to run small courses.

Marcie’s class usually isn’t a problem, because we run longer courses, with more recovery time.

Since I ended up spending the entire day fighting lows — and always 4 or more hours after meals, I ended up changing my basal rate from 12:00 – 4:00 and the basal rate from 4:00 to 8:00 am. — by .05 unit. Not a big decrease in insulin at all (I think it ends up being something like .3 unit. Of course, I couldn’t make that kind of adjustment with MDI. I’d have to cut the dose by a unit and be high until I adjusted to it.

I woke up at 104, so it’s definately not a problem.

I meant to go on a temp basal at 6:00 so I could walk without going low around 7:30-8:00, but I mucked that up — I think I programmed it in and then forgot the last step — hit go.

So I’ll eat a few extra carbs for breakfast, but short the basal by about a unit and I’ll probably be able to walk without eating more.

I really just want to avoid having to eat extra to avoid the low — yesterday I ended up eating 100 calories more than I wanted to.