Overnight Basal Rate Testing
I had a hunch that I could use some fine-tuning. But overnight fasting basal rate testing sucks, so I kept putting it off. My doc finally convinced me to bite the bullet, and I’m actually very glad I did. The…
I had a hunch that I could use some fine-tuning. But overnight fasting basal rate testing sucks, so I kept putting it off. My doc finally convinced me to bite the bullet, and I’m actually very glad I did. The…
Is there something more than Dawn Phenomenon? The dawn phenomenon is typically described as the body releasing a handful of hormones overnight that cause some insulin resistance. You see this as higher blood sugars in the morning, even though you…
I have heard from two different groups of people on this one. One group that does not bolus for protein at all, and another who boluses for a portion of their protein. Somewhere in the big “diabetes info” vault of…
Q & A time! Q) A question about your Symlin pump–do you use some basal Symlin as well as boluses at meals, or is that pump’s basal rate set to zero? A) On my Symlin pump I run a tiny basal…