Long time unlimited diabetics here are well aware of a lot of what has been going on with me. You were so kind to me when I got diagnosed with bladder cancer and, well, you guys are the best.
I was on high doses of prednisone part of 24 and 25 which caused really high insulin resistance. When I was tapering off my wife had a stroke mid June. She died in September. A lot of stress, added to it my baby sister died and my wife’s brother as well. Lots of stress.
My endo suggested that I make some pump changes, but I convinced him to let be do manual overrides and 4 hour extended boluses.
I was having an unnatural craving for carbs. This finally got better about 10 days ago. I’was putting in twice the carb grams for a bolus and doiing an extended bolus of 4 hours with up to 65% up front. This worked fairly well but I still had to do corrections around 2 hour mark.
You know me with the screenshots of my Dexcom and Tandem, so you wont be disappointed here you go.
Fasting was 104mg/dl but I didn’t bolus and eat for 2 hours. That rise is FOTF which is still a problem.
I was thinking of increasing my correction factor from 1u:45mg/dl to something more aggressive. I really don’t like hitting near 180mg/dl, although this past year I would hit the 300s and the only way to bring it down was 10-12 u intramuscular. That seemed to get my BG’s attention where stacking boluses by pump was just laughed out.