Pump Download (Data up to Dec 12 2016)

So here we go - another sensor successfully completed!  This sensor was a bit off (unlike the last one which seemed to perfectly match my glucose level) but it still gave me a good picture of what's been going on. 

The Carelink Quick View Summary report had me quite excited - I've brought my glucose into range (that's between 4.0 mmol/L and 8.0 mmol/L) 55% of the time!  That's up from 49% during the last download.  High blood sugars are also down (39% compared to 48% last time).  Lows unfortunately went up a bit though too (they're back up to 6%).  The average glucose level has gone down slightly to 8.1 mmol/L (so that's down 0.2).  The high came down a whole 1.0 mmol/L, and the low is slightly higher than it was on the 3rd.  And I've managed to maintain the 50/50 split between basal and bolus.  So yay!

There's now 16 basals programmed into my pump, up from last time's 11.  I was getting a bit worried that I might hit a limit, but according to Medtronic the VEO can have 48 basals per day.  So no problems with the increase.  Once again I was actively making changes to my basal as the sensor was running.  That let me have a whole afternoon where I got to see my glucose staying in range over the entire day!  I think from around 4am to about 5pm it stayed between 4.5 mmol/L and about 7.5 mmol/L.  Here's a pic I took earlier of the 6 hour graph in action (it was so exciting!)

Look at that.  So wonderful to see!

In other exciting news, I discovered that I didn't have a high enough basal covering 11pm.  Last night my glucose shot up for no reason whatsoever.  So it wasn't just me sucking with carb counting in the evening - I have to get those basals figured out!  I'm hoping to tackle the evening with the next sensor I run. :)

I absolutely love running sensors.  This would have been a pain (quite literally) to get this level of information with my glucometer alone.  I really wish I had gotten a box sooner, but I am so thankful that I have this box right now!