Rising levels
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@Alissa thank you hun! Honestly blood sugars ALWAYS stress me out. They rise in the morning after I eat and rise in the evening after I eat.. I do the extended bolus delivery as well and it doesn’t work. I’ve changed my carb ratio to 1:7 like you suggested 🤞🏽 🤍🤍
I found, by my third pregnancy (unfortunately I was never able to get a sensor until AFTRR all 3 of my pregnancies, so my poor fingers were so brutalized), that the 3 (or 4 if you’re more comfortable with that) day rule worked out pretty well. I could never eat the EXACT same thing every day, but I tried to eat something similar ish, and if my sugars ran high for 3 days in a row, than I would assume that it wasn’t a fluke and changed my numbers. I’m glad to see that you’re comfortable changing your settings on your own thought. I think it’s SO much harder for the ladies who would say that they HAD TO wait for their doctors to ok the change before they would do anything. And it’s like, it’s YOUR body, this is YOUR baby, you HAVE TO HE comfortable taking the reins for yourself and your child because ultimately when it comes down to it, the doctor isn’t the one who is going to have to face the repercussions if something is corrected or changed for X amount of time! You are! Your baby is!
Honestly they make you feel bad for changing things to suit your own needs before consulting with them. Yes they might understand the science behind it, which we might not necessarily, but we know our bodies and are living with this condition! Yes I’m very comfortable changing my doses, tbh I haven’t been eating the same things back to back but similar things and the levels rise. I might actually consider Keto, more natural fats meat/fish & veggies/fruit and a small amount of carbohydrates. See how I get on then. Carbs make me feel so sluggish 🫠 I’ll have to let you n is how I get on 🤞🏽🤍
Going from 1:10 to 1:5 is a pretty big leap I would start at 1:7 or 1:8 first. My rule of thumb was always that I had to have the same risen numbers for at least three consistent days (when I KNEW that they should be lower), then I would make a change. And there were definitely times when I was making changes EVERY 3 days!!! For me, my first two rose the ENTIRE PREGNANCY! By the end, I was changing my pump pretty much daily and only using it for my basals!!! 😲😱 I would inject whatever I needed for bolus’ for meals and my pump was strictly for basals and corrections. Congratulations mama!