I wasn't expecting to write another post today, but I also wasn't expecting my glucose to rise for no apparent reason either. My sensor alerted me to the rise (which wasn't actually as high as the sensor claimed) and I corrected it. I checked the graph of my sensor about an hour and a half later and was told my glucose had not come down (but had actually gone up slightly). Huh.
At this point, I was rather concerned. My diabetes educators have always been wanting me to deal with basal rates first before messing with other things (with the exception of carb ratios here and there) so I was left wondering how soon a correction should happen. According to diabetesnet.com, "A properly set correction bolus allows you to bring down high blood sugars to within 30 mg/dl (1.7 mmol) of your target blood sugar after 5 hours" with a fast acting insulin. So that leads me to believe that my correction is off.
I need to be careful here because I'm not feeling 100% (and illness means you need more insulin). But I'm going to try raising the correction factor by 0.1 from 9pm in the hopes that it will help! I can always put it back to where it was if I start going low as a result.
That random high blood sugar bothers me a bit though. I may need to increase my basal insulin to cover for that if it happens again.
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