{"id":135,"date":"2018-02-02T09:04:49","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T09:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/finally-going-down-in-my-insulin-usage-and-interesting-letters\/"},"modified":"2018-02-02T09:04:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T09:04:49","slug":"finally-going-down-in-my-insulin-usage-and-interesting-letters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/finally-going-down-in-my-insulin-usage-and-interesting-letters\/","title":{"rendered":"Finally going down in my insulin usage and interesting letters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First, when I went on the VIctoza, I had some lows, so we went the wrong way in adjusting insulin usage.&nbsp; Reducing insulin usage too much in this case was better than too little because I hate lows.&nbsp; <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"wlEmoticon wlEmoticon-smile\" style=\"\" alt=\"Smile\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.kweaver.org\/.a\/6a00e54eea8ed9883401bb09efae5d970d-pi\"><\/p>\n<p>First we have the basal and dropped the bolus dosage.&nbsp; I even tried going off pump for a few days.&nbsp; Didn\u2019t work, my blood sugar was way too high.&nbsp; So I decided to try halving the bolus dosage and that really helped. I still had to bump up the basal a bit, but I started waking up with blood sugars under 120.&nbsp; This is a good thing.<\/p>\n<p>Lately I\u2019ve seen fasting blood sugars in the 90-110 range, so I\u2019m really glad.&nbsp; The last couple of days I woke to blood sugars in the 90s, so now I\u2019m bumping down the basal dosage a bit.&nbsp; I\u2019m also going to start watching after meal dosages more closely.<\/p>\n<p>The goal is to get off the pump when I run out of supplies.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m thinking of turning off the USPS Informed Delivery.&nbsp; Yesterday I got a letter from each diabetes doctor\u2019s&nbsp; office.&nbsp; I knew the new doctor would be sending me a \u201cthank you\u201d for joining the practice, but since I had written a letter terminating services from the other diabetes doctor\u2019s office, I was afraid this was a letter of protest.<\/p>\n<p>No, it was part of a mailing they had done to all their patients, inviting us to come to the new office. Don\u2019t think so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First, when I went on the VIctoza, I had some lows, so we went the wrong way in adjusting insulin usage.&nbsp; Reducing insulin usage too much in this case was better than too little because I hate lows.&nbsp; First we have the basal and dropped the bolus dosage.&nbsp; I even tried going off pump for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-135","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}