Lows For Days
A while ago I wrote about how I was battling with unexplained highs. Now I have the opposite problem. Lows for several days now, even on a reduced basal.
In the last 24 hours, a 70% reduced basal overnight (by that time, I’d given up and just wanted some sleep), still only put me a mmol/l over normal by this morning, and that was after not bolusing for dinner (around 30 carbs) and several snacks after. By dinner, I was on a 50% reduced basal and I did a half-strength correction at 10:30pm. By 3am I was having yet another hypo.
I’m pretty much hypo unaware these days, so I’m on hourly BGL checking.
My diabetes educator and I have had several conversations over the last few days, and we can’t come up with anything obvious to explain it. Now it’s more conjecture than anything else, unless we want to run a bunch of unnecessary blood tests, and even then there might be nothing obvious to explain it. No point really unless it doesn’t resolve.
The situation seems to be slowly improving as the day wears on, but it’s as tedious to deal with these unexplained lows as it is to deal with days of unexplained highs. It is, however, a fact of life for people with diabetes!
