Week 1 (7/01/13 - 12/01/13)

So, I'm finally starting to get my head around how I can use this space meaningfully.

Today, I have analysed last week's blood sugar readings, as planned, and thought about some changes to make for week 2's efforts. I have set up 2 more pages for my blog: a page to record my learnings as I go, and a page to log my weekly analyses. Whether anyone but me will ever read them is immaterial; I'm just hoping it will help me gain more insight into my fluctuations! However, if anyone DOES fancy reading them and putting their two-pence in I will be very grateful as my perspective is, of course, subjectively skewed.

Week 1 then... Overall, my readings were too high; I knew this before I analysed them. I was actually quite surprised that nearly 40% of them were in range. Now I am aware that this is nowhere near large enough as  a percentage, but it's a starting point that is not as near 0 as I would have anticipated. That said, nearly 60% of my readings were too high. That needs to change. Ideally, I am ultimately aiming for no more than 25% of my readings to be higher than my ideal range. Next week, my target is 50%: baby steps.

317 (17.6 in old money) for my highest reading is way too high. However, I only had 1 hypo, which for a back-to-work week is pretty darn good. I need to work on reducing the gap between my highest reading and lowest reading.

Looking at the spread of my results over the days of the week was quite interesting (to me!!) I noticed high mornings, a mixture of before lunch readings, lows after school and a mix at bedtime. To make it manageable for week 2, I am going to set myself the following targets:

1. To test before bed, every night, and on waking to try and figure out my overnight basal dosage.
2. Try to avoid snacks at breaktime (for now) to see the effect on my pre-lunch levels; last week I found even having something with technically no carbohydrates (e.g. a carrot and some tomatoes) made my pre-lunch levels higher than the days I had no snack.
3. To decrease my lunchtime insulin ratio from 0.18:1 to 0.15:1 to try and curb the after school dip.

Let's see how this goes...