Testing Correction Factor

[gettingby]

I'm not sure if this is the right place but here goes my predictament.
I decided to test my correction factor today.

Start: 298
1 hr : 238
2 hr : 96
wtf???? Is my correction factor too high or my basal dose? I'm getting so confused. :confused: According to the Pumping Insulin book, I should monitor over a 5 hour period. I know I need to stop the test if I go too low. I still have about 3 hours left. :confused: Have I done something wrong here?

[JediSkipdogg]

It could be a number of things and without knowing if your basal is set perfect it's hard to know.

1) You could have an extremely high correction factor. I've seen people where 1 unit drops them 200 mg/dl easily.

2) Since it's a correction factor insulin generally works faster than with food. Without knowing which insulin it was and how sensitive you are to that insulin it's hard to say. That insulin may effect you and work fully in 3 hours.

I'd say test at 3 hours and see what it is then. Then after that, try it again tomorrow or some other day. How soon before that did you last eat? Could you be stacking insulin? If you test it again tomorrow and have the same effect, then go back and start over with checking your basals first.

[statdeac]

According to that same book, basal testing should be done before correction ratios are tested. Did you do some sort of fasting test for basal rate?

How many units did you use to correct. You likely still have active insulin (about 10% of what you injected with the correction bolus), so you would likely continue to drop.

Maybe start testing on the half hour now just to make sure.

Good luck!

[gettingby]

Back to the drawing board, as they say.
3 hr reading was 51. I guess I need to retest my basal. :(
My correction factor has been set by my endo at 1u= 40 point drop.

[xMenace]

Sometimes your bolus will be delayed. I believe mine was today. 2 hrs after breakfast I was up to 15.8! I corrected and was down to a normal 6.5 at noon. Too fast! I figured my morning bolus was delayed, so I tested regularly this afternoon. I dropped to 2.8 at 1:30 after a lunch and normal bolus. I hate when this happens. You don't know if it's absorption, bad insulin, bad set, bad carb counting, bad metabolism, or sunspots!

This is why I recommend many tests to confirm your numbers.

[poper77]

Try again another day...Sometimes weird stuff happens...this morning I woke up at 299. I took a correction bolus (pump wizard did the numbers for me) in 45 minutes I dropped to 64.....I had no iob.....Normally if I am high in the morning the correction bolus takes 2 hours to get in the normal range...