Overnight Basal Test - Mar 14th-15th

Right off the bat, I have to say it was fantastic to actually have most of my evening to NOT be devoted to a basal test (and fending off hunger).  Rather than trying to do nothing remotely active all night, I did some light yoga, which finished about an hour before I was starting the test.  That was awesome because I actually felt good going into the test.  Every time I'd do an overnight basal test starting at 5 or 6pm I always felt like crap because you're not supposed to do anything active once the test starts.  I know I like to be active in the early evening (that's usually when I do yoga and things like that); now I actually can!  

As a side note (and this does not surprise me), I have a major issue with portion distortion with peanut butter.  I actually measured a tablespoon for my final meal of the day (I don't have an actual name for it because I've always referred to it as "bedtime snack" just because of when it happens, even though it is technically my third meal).  And that tablespoon was easily half of what I would normally scoop.  Oops!  I'll definitely have to watch my peanut butter intake better in the future!

I started the test off a bit higher than planned.  I don't know what exactly happened in the last hour after yoga (which I did not change insulin for by the way), but I ended up a bit over 10.  I did change some basals a night or two ago, so I really need to see what's going to happen overnight.  My thought for this test is that I can see what the general basal trends are, even if the numbers I get are a little higher than they would be had I started off between 4 and 9.

I wanted to check the insulin to carbohydrate ratio tonight too because this meal has probably never been checked. There should be about a 3.0 mmol/L increase in blood sugar from meal glucose to two hours after.  So if the level is a lot higher than that, the insulin to carb ratio isn't high enough; if it's a lot lower, the insulin to carb is too strong and will have to be lowered.  It looks like mine will have to be lowered (my glucose was 3.8 mmol/L lower than two hours ago), but I'm going to rerun the basal test before actually doing anything, just because I'm worried the yoga may have had some effect on this, too.  At least at that point though, I was high enough to just see what the basals do overnight, hopefully without any lows.

Unfortunately the downward trend continued.  I was lower again at 2am.  Since I couldn't sleep anyway, I checked again 15 minutes later and it was slightly lower.  This drop prompted me to stop the test and eat a little something so that I wouldn't be worried about sleeping.

And now something else is going on, too.  I woke up at 7:30 am and decided to do another glucose test for fun to find myself slightly over 10 mmol/L.  So it'll be interesting to see what's going on around 5am once I can make it through 3am without going low.