? Help determining spike after eating

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I've been slowly changing the dose to work on getting her fully regulated and she's up to 1.6 units twice a day but she still keeps spiking after food and consistently in pink/purple and I don't know why. She was 257 at AMPS this morning and just now I did her +3 and she's 398. Again, a massive spike after eating/shot. If she was consistently in the yellow with .6 units twice a day, wouldn't logic dictate an improvement in slowly increasing her dose as I've been doing? I saw some blues and greens with 2 units so it can't be a rebound. Initially she was on low carb wet, canned food that had 8-10% carbs and spiking so at the advice of some of the members I went and got her even lower carb. Her current food ranges from 0-3% carbs and I'm still seeing the same spike. I know I'm in the process of doing a curve at this time but I can tell you right now she won't drop into blues.
 
Her spreadsheet is confusing. Can you get a curve in sometime soon? My guess is that we are missing something midcycle. If she is high and flat, then an increase is needed. But there could be some lower later numbers to bounce from. She has a yellow am preshot almost every other day; that makes me wonder if the other higher cycle is a bounce. With some more data, we might be able to see if a sliding scale would help. If she is dropping on the yellows, maybe a little less insulin for that cycle would improve the numbers overall.

I'll be watching for the curve numbers.
 
Absolutely. Doing a curve right now and I can grab another tomorrow and Monday, if necessary (yay holiday). I've returned to work so I don't have the luxury of any midday shots until the weekend. I showed my dad how to do it but he's nervous and not confident at all so I've just been doing it myself.
 
Hmmm. After that spike (which is still amazing and very unusual. BGs increase after food, usually around 1 hour after eating but she jumps up pretty late and then drops.) she flattened out and basically surfed along. That doesn't always happen, right? Do you know if it is a daytime thing or does it also happen at night?

The most logical idea I have is that the insulin ran out and that is why the pmps is higher. Nothing there to bounce from that I can see. If that is right, then the dose needs to be increased. Since it's the weekend - if you can monitor- maybe increase to 1.8? If you do it tonight, I'd plan on a before bed test and depending on how that looks, maybe a 6/7 too? If you want to sleep tonight, wait until tomorrow?
 
I'm not sure if it's just limited to the day or not. I haven't tested her much in the evenings because I get up so early for work that I usually sleep pretty early too.

I had dosed her prior to writing the message so I'll just increase her to 1.8 tomorrow and see what that looks like.
 
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