Testing etc

I've been thinking about doing some basal tests for awhile now but kept putting things off.  To be fair, with the new job and all the stress before getting it, I wanted to wait until life calmed down a bit to get a better picture of what is going on.  But now I have an appointment with my diabetes nurse and dietitian at the end of the month, so it was definitely time to start doing some of those tests!

I also decided to do a pump download.  I haven't actually done one here since February. Oops!  As a side note though, I seem to be doing a bit better than I was in February right now (more of my glucose tests were in target!)

I actually did manage to run a basal test successfully last night.  Well, mostly successfully; I failed to wake up during my 7:30am alarm (I woke up at 6 thinking it had gone off and did glucose, but then didn't wake back up until 10am).  But other than that snag, the test was successful for the night.  Unexpectedly though I ran rather high all night; things started out fine, but then my glucose went up to 11 mmol/L and sort of stayed there.  So it looks like I will have to make an adjustment with that.  My one concern is that I'm getting close to my period, which may be messing with things.  My period is still about a week away though, so I think it should be fine.  I did just send an email to my diabetes education team though to get their thoughts on the matter; we'll see what they say.

I've also spent two days keeping track of what I'm eating on a carbohydrate counting daily worksheet.  I have to say I'm not really a fan of the sheets because of their layout, but whatever; if it's what my dietitian wants then so be it.  I ended up making a switch on my insulin to carbohydrate ratio already thanks to these sheets though - it looks like the insulin to carb was too high at 9pm, but fine at 10pm.  Hopefully I'll be able to tell in the next few days if the switch helped or not.

While I'm writing, I might as well give my numbers from July 12th:

weight: 207.4 lbs
fat percentage: 46.3%
hydration: 36.9%
muscle: 26.5%
bone: 10.7%
cal: 2331

So a bit better with the weight than last time, but it's all super close so really not much difference.