Rob & Harley said:
I've heard alot here that an early steep drop means not enough insulin but I always saw it the other way around. A fast steep drop was the insulin kicking in hard and fast, being too much, causing the early drop which triggered a bounce.
I've been a little puzzled on that too, b/c several have said that an early nadir means too little insulin, but also I think we have all seen the early drop to low numbers that is from the dose too high, and then sometimes after that they rise some.
My ultimate conclusion has been that the steep drop/lower #s is too much insulin, the early nadir that is not dramatic is too little insulin. I don't know if it's that clear-cut, but I do think the early nadir can be either of those, just depends on the numbers and the finer points. Just my take on it.
Leaving all that aside, his dose looks to low to me. The only time you got good numbers, barring that one pesky 71, was when you shot 1u.
0.4 looked promising, but only on that one cycle really back on 6/25. Sometimes you get good results like that but it just doesn't stick, and that is usually from too little insulin. Once they spend some time in higher numbers they lose ground pretty fast, and if they can spend some time in better numbers they often gain ground pretty fast.
And then there are a couple other oddball good numbers, which I agree is likely some pancreas action. I'd be inclinded to try 0.8 for a couple cycles, and if that doesn't do the trick and you don't get more wonky stuff, then I'd go up to 1u. We probably just should have had you stay at 1u from the get-go, but 20/20 hindsight I guess. Now that there's that wonky 71 in the picture, that's why I'd take the intermediate step of 0.8 just to check and see what the curve looks like.
