Having finished the Race Across America as a part of the Team Type 1 squad about two and a half weeks ago, I've been really interested to see how my body (diabetes) was going to respond. Initially there was no noticeable changes; even during the race I wasn't having to change the basal rates on my pump significantly. Having returned back to the working world, I'm not on my bike every day, nor am I going flat out when I am on it; as such, I had anticipated there to be a shift in metabolism, but it has not been what I expected. Thanks to my Freestyle Navigator, my navi, I know that between 1 and 2 am my blood sugar typically starts going up, and will stay that way until about 6 am. In order to manage that increase my basal rate is set to increase for the same period, and this typically is spot on. The past two nights now something has changed. If you are not familiar with the navi, it continuously monitors the glucose level in the interstitial fluid and provides real-time awareness of what is going on. So, for the past two nights, my navi has let me know that my glucose level was at a less than desirable level, and staying there. Getting an alarm from the navi, a very persistent beeping, in the middle of the night is pretty easily managed normally by decreasing the basal rate and tossing down some Dex-4 (glucose tabs), but when it keeps going off every 45 minutes to an hour, you end up with a crappy nights sleep. However, a crappy nights sleep is way bette than a seizure because the glucose got too low. Anyway, that's been the past two nights, constant alarms; I'll try lowering my basal even further tonight and see how it goes.
No riding/training for me today, I'm off to the river to do some fishing.
1 comment:
Nice Blog. You just need to add some photos, like one of your navi reading 45 with an arrow straight down.
And i do feel privaledged to be the first to comment here. Rememebr that when u receive your 100th comment (should eb in about a week).
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