Does your bg correct itself?

corwin · #1 (**permalink**) 07-20-2006, 08:39 AM

I've noticed, with my honeymoon, that my bg will tend to move toward the normal range even without fast acting insulin. This makes sense because my pancreas is still producing a significant amount of insulin. I was wondering how it is for people post honeymoon. Assuming your basal is set correctly and you are 140. Will it go lower in few hours or will it stay a constant 140 for a day if you won't correct?

I was under the impression it will stay 140, but then what do you do if your correction factor is more then 50 for 1 unit? Force yourself to eat more carbs just so you can end up in the ideal range?

Just curious about my future

JediSkipdogg · #2 (**permalink**) 07-20-2006, 08:50 AM

It all depends on what you were doing when you figured your basal out. If you set it for a standard day and do the same thing as the day you set it, it should technically stay 140. Now, if you walk up and down the stairs 26 times that day and you didn't do that the day you figured your basal out, you may start to drop lower from the exercise.

My current correction factor is 1 unit is 35 mg/dl. I have a pump, so I have an advantage over non-pumpers for correcting, but I won't really correct unless I'm greater than about 140. My goal is 110 because my BG can drop extremely fast without warning. Just the way my metabolism is.

I think most people would just wait till their next meal to correct that 140. Even then, those on shots, I don't know many that will give a shot for 1 unit unless they are highly insulin sensitive.

sbuff28@charter · #3 (**permalink**) 07-20-2006, 01:25 PM

I am 7 months after diagnosis. Still honeymooning a great deal. When i switched to the pump, i didn't have ANY insulin in basal or bolus and i went down from 150 to 90 in like 4 to 5 hours. I can still do that i just can be lazy. I have a .3 unit per hour basal (about equal to 8 units lantus), but this seems to replace the background insulin my panc is producing because even with .3 u/h i am still dropping that same amount, mabye a little faster.

My numbers definatly balence themselves out. Its nice to have a 10 unit TDD because that liver doesn't have to stuggle as hard when to much insulin is introduced. basicly when im 150 i will lower much faster than if im at 85, another benifit.

I dread the day my panc stops

Just_Plain_John · #4 (**permalink**) 07-21-2006, 01:03 PM

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Originally Posted by sbuff28@charter

I dread the day my panc stops

Well, I can always exercise and the insulin in my system will transport the sugar to my muscles and get it out of the blodstream. Supposedly I'm not producing any insulin at all now (I was diagnosed with full blown acute DKA and hospitalized for it). But when I'm a little too high, I knock out a 20-30 minute workout and drop the sugar reading by about 80 points.