I had a pretty good stretch of doing very well with the pump and with blood sugars. Then for no reason everything went crazy. I can barely get through a night without running numbers up to 200 and then do little boluses to have some sort of control. Then I will hear the beeping of a low and can seem to bring it up and then wham, blood sugar going up like a rocket.
I called the doctor’s office on two occasions now and on both they have lowered a basal rate in the night and raised it in the morning. The funny part is the morning is the best part of the day (sometimes I am even a little low). I am really confused by this. I am giving it a few days to try and see where I end up but so far over the weekend at night I have been high (200-275) every night.
I realize with weather changes activity levels and my body is always changing so things will be difficult. So far though I think my concerns of the nighttime are not being communicated from the nurse to the doctor. I have the advantage of uploading information to a website that the doctor can then look at to see what is going on, including my boluses, carbs, blood glucose and sensor glucose levels. I asked the nurse to give him a specific report although I think the message of my issue was lost.
So I will give it a few more days and then make another attempt to convey my concerns. It would be nice to get through a few nights in a row without a high or an alert for a high, although with the alerts it has prevented me from waking up 350-450 in the middle of the night.
