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That I know will affect my insulin needs, but what I am talking about is near exact food intake, on the very same batch of insulin, with stable stress levels and lack of disease during this period. The latter also lasts longer than the former.
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Yeah, I know. That's what I meant. Some days you can do the exact same thing as you did the day before and get a totally different set of results. That's because there are literally millions of factors influencing your metabolism, and it's impossible for anyone to control more than about 4 at any one time. Like Jedi's sig says, managing diabetes is an art rather than a science. A constant routine is good for helping you to very roughly predict what will happen, but it's not a guarantee. There's simply too many factors beyond your control which change for no apparent reason whatsoever. For instance, for reasons I don't understand yet, I've had to increase my evening bolus from 12u to 18u. It just happened one day and it's been like that since. In a couple of months it'll probably change again. It's just 'being diabetic' - the only thing you can ever really figure out for sure with the condition is that whatever you thought you had figured out will be 'unfigured' in a few month's time.
That's what I'm getting at when these odd, inexplicable changes last longer. It's a combination of a total change in your body's metabolic needs and there's probably some pancreas wake-up going on. I'd imagine we're going to see a lot of people on here suddenly noting that their requirements have changed for reasons they don't know. It happened this time last year too - and coincidentally, this time of year just happens to be the change from spring to winter, when there's more daylight around. Your body reacts to this stuff and totally changes how it's been working for the last 6 months - and that means a change in your metabolism and insulin requirements.
