Looking at the SS I notice a few things.
I hugely appreciate you having a look and sharing your knowledge with me.
When he drops into the low greens, like he did on the 1/5 you need to be testing until he gets up into safe numbers. If you have given high carb food, which I am assuming you have if he is dropping to the 40s and the 30s, you need to test for 2 hours after you have stopped feeding the high carb. if you don’t, and the BGs wobble about and drop again, which they often do, you could miss a hypo event. Don’t stop testing when he is still in low numbers.
I really understand this isnt ideal. But +5 is 1130 pm my time. I am someone that needs to go to bed by 9 to function properly. My alarm goes off at 6 am everyday to get up to do the morning test and shot. This whole year since he got diagnosed I am really having a crisis. I had to give up my job of 24 years as it requires me to be out of the house 15 plus a day. I am picking up bits of work here and there but because my job was very specialised and I had good experience in it, I was paid ok. Now I am doing minimum wage jobs and I am no way earning enough to live. I feel like all my life force is going to try and get Marley well, so I dont have energy to creatively think about my situation and what I can do about it. I have been in survival mode but really only just scraping by. With the whole world seemingly under attack with this not so great reset, our government - under the pretence that it has something to do with the war in Ukraine has upped electricity bills so high, that it is impossible for many to survive. As an example my last months bill was £475 which is $474 US dollars - for one month!!!! I am in danger of loosing my house. Most people around me thinks I should put Marley down and that I am wasting my life. There is no way I will but its just another pressure. I am not in anyway trying to put this on you or anyone that reads it, I know we all have our problems and stresses. But I want it to be known that while I do things really imperfectly, I am really doing my best and I am giving all I have to Marley. Even going to bed at 1130 on the 5th also having had 2 other late nights on the 2nd and 3rd, I was good for nothing by the next day I was meant to be using that day to find other work. I was useless. I cant stay up til 1 am and then function the next day.
I know it looks bad me going to bed when his BG is 45 but I do weigh up other things. When Marley is having a hypo he goes really wired and pacey. He is obsessed with food and looks uncomfortable in his body. All those nights I went to sleep he was super settled, he was beside me on my bed and I felt he was safe. Am I right? - I dont know, but I just reach a point where I hit a wall where I feel if I dont look after myself I wont be around much longer to be there for him, and even if that is going too far, I wont have a roof over our heads that is a nice space where he feels safe and happy with lots of nature to be in outside. So I am having to weight up so many things.
I desperately need to get more work but because he is so up and down I feel its not safe for me to be out of the house at certain times. I feel like I can say I can work from +5.5 to +11.5 (which in my time zone is 12-6 pm - but those are weird hours and people dont necessarily have work for those hours.
If you could see me now you would see my life is totally changed for Marley, unrecognisable. I am not really managing. I just pray that he gets more regulated so that I can get myself back to health and balance again and earning enough to live.
It looks as if he drops at +2 quite often, in the pm cycle at the moment. And can continue to drop at +3 +4 and +5.
With this knowledge, I would suggest you give him a snack at +1.5 and again at +2.5 to see if you can stop these fast drops that are causing the bounces. It is a combination of fast drops and dropping into low greens that are causing the bounces. So to try and stop the bounces, I would try what I have suggested above, and see how that goes. It is trial and error to see if it works. But feeding at +4 is after the horse has bolted, if you are feeding to stop the bounce… however if he drops under 50 you do need to feed high carb to bring him back up to safe numbers.
Does that make sense?
He used to drop at +2 but his new pattern is he drops (if at all) at +3. He does have timers set for food - So he gets fed at the shot time, then a small amount at +1, +2 +3 and +4. These timers are set for his daily schedule (twice a day). If he has a hypo I switch the food (or add the yoghurt which brings him up quickly) and if its out of his regular feeding slots he gets extra food and HC at that.
Please dont let that stop you telling me things and guiding me. I do want to know what you r exerience tells you. I want to factor it in even if I cant live up to it.
