April 23, 2022
Lunch was a carb indulgence at a taqueria, so I bolused five units at the table to keep my BG level from skyrocketing. Even so, the levels continued to climb, so five hours later I bolus another three units of fast-acting insulin to bring the levels back down.
At 8:00 pm, we had light hors-d’oeurves, which brought my levels back up, followed by another snack before going to bed of broccoli and spinach. That didn’t change the trajectory of the curve until I bolused a cocktail of fast and long-acting insulin.
This was where I struggled to make the right call. Usually at 140 mg/dl, I would bolus two units of fast acting insulin and find myself in my target zone. But lately that has been too much, so I figured I needed to modify my estimates. At 160 mg/dl, I decided to go to 2.5 units of fast acting insulin, and four units of long-acting insulin to take myself into sleep. It proved to be a decent estimate. It dropped to the 90’s overnight, and then gradually started climbing again before waking.
Since it had been a long week and I was lazy on Saturday morning, it wasn’t until about 11:00 am that I started walking around the house to get on with my day. You can see how just that little bit of movement brought my levels at the down around noon without an official workout or any insulin.