{"id":194966,"date":"2010-01-18T15:09:40","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T20:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.diabetesforums.com\/forum\/type-1-diabetes\/47740-weird-no-more-basal.html"},"modified":"2010-01-18T15:09:40","modified_gmt":"2010-01-18T20:09:40","slug":"weird-no-more-basal-for-me","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/194966","title":{"rendered":"Weird… No more Basal for me?"},"content":{"rendered":"
Something odd seems to be happening. For the past week or so I was going low at least 2 times a day, I tried lowering basal but that wasnt the only thing(it isn’t meals, I always spike from them, perhaps correcting the spikes too fast?). Finally I just turned off my pump after school to keep from going low again, oddly enough it was off for a long time (didn’t measure) and no ill effects(I was watching over it with a CGMS). I would keep turning it back on to bolus for food though. <\/p>\n

Today I went low at the start of school after lowering my carb ratio a bit in hopes of killing that terrible after breakfast spike. I got scared and was sick of all these lows and decided to just turn off my pump, I had my CGMS to warn me when I should get back on the basal. Oddly enough nothing happened, my CGMS showed a great strait graph, maybe I don’t pay as much attention to it usually but I was pleased with it. I decided to do a "basal test" for zero basal and so fasted for 4 hours 40 minutes. Then I got hungry and killed the basal test, I bolused for my food and turned off my pump again. <\/p>\n

I spiked after that, looks like food still effects me for sure, I corrected a bit and turned off the pump again. Then I felt terrible and got scared, remembering I had once read here that someone needed the glucagon cause they where DKA but their sugar was too low to correct it properly(looking back mabey I can blame it on not being used to fasting much?). So I turned it on again and about an hour later found myself low once more(45!). I over corrected for the low(about 45 carbs, no bolus) and turned off basal again. <\/p>\n

Of course I spiked again, once again I corrected and basal was mostly on and here I am low again.<\/p>\n

I must say this is the craziest roller coaster I have been on for a while. My basal was always low, there where even times when it was zero for a small portion of the day but never this much.<\/p>\n

Advice anyone? I think maybe I should try an all day proper fast with no insulin but I don’t know how long Ill keep that up and my dietitian wants to fatten me up, she is definitely against basal tests.<\/p>\n

Most importantly can anyone tell me about DKA again? That scares me, I was sure DKA happened when you where high.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Something odd seems to be happening. For the past week or so I was going low at least 2 times a day, I tried lowering basal but that wasnt the only thing(it isn’t meals, I always spike from them, perhaps correcting the spikes too fast?). Finally I just turned off my pump after school to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3394,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3394"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}