[Gary_W]

Subby - Thanks for that. I am aware of GI and try to go with foods that are kinder if I can. I don't always manage that There is a German rye bread that I do well with, but I tend to be OK with most stuff at meals other than breakfast. Evening meal is open season and it seems I can eat anything without spiking too badly. Long may that continue... The bacon and egg reference was purely in terms of low carb breakfasts. Lots of folks here seem to go with cheese / bacon / eggs etc. Whilst I enjoy all of these things, breakfast to me tends to be cereals, breads and fruit. All of the things that spike you worst at the time of day when you are most resistant to insulin so I realise I'm my own worst enemy. Knowing how diabetes changes, there may come a day where I can't eat these things anymore but until then I'll try and figure a way to get around the cornflakes

Eddy - I'm really still working out the basal. My night-time and morning seem about right now (though my BG has risen VERY slightly in the night for the last couple so it may be changing again already....). Afternoons still need taking back further. I haven't got those right and haven't got time / opportunity to basal test without life getting in the way. With that in mind, I am currently taking a grand total of 9.08U per day in basal. Which isn't much... It is split through the day as follows:

12am 0.100
1am 0.075
4am 0.500
6.30 0.525
9am 0.475
11am 0.400
4pm 0.450
10pm 0.275

As stated, the afternoons still tend to result in a 3.30 - 4.30pm hypo so I'm taking the early afternoon back a little as of tomorrow and seeing how it goes. I've only done a couple of actual basal tests during the day since pumping; the rest has been adjusting based on when I seem to dip / rise inexplicably and as I blood test at least every 2 hours I'm not far out. Apart from the mid to late PM, I'm pretty good now. Nights were tested extensively in the begining with 2 hourly bloodtests as everything was going to pot on MDI.

As you can see, the 7-fold increase in early hours to dawn was no fun on Lantus. If you do the maths on 14u of Lantus, that equates to around 0.58u per hour if you take it as being genuinely flat. Of course it doesn't work like that but you can see how this gave problems. I would sometimes drop by 5mmol in the night and again if you do the maths there is a couple of spare units of insulin floating around in those early hours comparing Lantus with pumping. That's more than enough to drop me down there.

Gary