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Tuesday, February 10, 2009

Doing a pre meal BSL reading and a post meal BSL reading is the closest that you'd get to owning the perks of a CGMS (Continuous Blood Glucose Monitoring System). Unfortunately, this darn thing's extremely expensive. It costs about $200 for 3 days worth of blood glucose readings every 5 minutes for 3 whole days. I think it's heavily subsidized in the US that's why they can afford to have it on them almost everyday. Having this on me everyday would make me a pauper in a month.

That said, I haven't done many post meal readings lately because it's really annoying to have to keep track of the time that you ate and remember the time to take a reading again. I usually forget the time that I have to do a reading again and end up not taking it. The last time I did an intensive blood glucose monitoring regime was late last year and found that my post meal readings always sucked but went back to normal in an hour or so without any adjustment to my doses. I just did a pre lunch and post lunch reading today and found that the difference was 4.4mmol/l apart! *gasps* The reading's not supposed to be more than 2mmol/L apart. That either means my body reacts really slowly to the insulin or that I need to do something about the rate which my boluses are released.

I'll start with a dual wave bolus of 70%, 30% over half an hour and see how that works out.

I'll keep this space posted about whether it works. Or we'll need some doctor's advice.

Rachel wrote in the pages of her life at 4:20 PM

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