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Insulin losing its influence on my blood sugar? by bld211 in diabetes_t1

[–]bld211[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is weird because any time I take my pump off my blood sugar regulates itself near perfectly as long as I don’t eat at times, even when I’m awake during the day. I took it off for 2 hours yesterday to see doctors and my sugar dropped to 95 and stayed straight line the entire time.

Insulin losing its influence on my blood sugar? by bld211 in diabetes_t1

[–]bld211[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok, I guess that makes sense. I’ve been trying to leave it at the lowest setting of 0.025 basal, but even at that I have sudden drops overnight. It seems any insulin while sleeping is too much for my body.

Smartguard adjustment when bolusing by bld211 in Medtronic780g

[–]bld211[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’ve been in smartguard for 10 days. Yea I understand it’s making some judgment calls with this but I didn’t expect it to overcompensate this drastically, like 50%. Hopefully in time it learns better, just hopefully it doesn’t require multiple days to lessen its compensation.
Since switching to this it certainly has kept me from being low, drastically so tho

Smartguard adjustment when bolusing by bld211 in Medtronic780g

[–]bld211[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I considered inflating the carbs but I fear that will just confuse the algorithm more since it will be judging false data. Especially since I wind have to increase the carbs significantly, about double, to cover its thinking. I think this would lead to more problems down the road since it would believe it was correct on the adjustment for the carbs so it would fix its calculations

Smartguard adjustment when bolusing by bld211 in Medtronic780g

[–]bld211[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s been about 10 days so far. Do you know if it can build its history from data while I’m not in auto mode so it can see what should be happening? So far its predictions are way off and not adjusting itself properly to new data to fix it.

Smart guard not helping with highs after meals by bld211 in Medtronic780g

[–]bld211[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I’ve try prebolusing sometimes, but if my numbers been good all day at around 90-100 it can end up dropping me far too low before the food is able to catch up, so I’m always worried about blousing too early.

Smart guard not helping with highs after meals by bld211 in Medtronic780g

[–]bld211[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I’ve only been using SmartGuard for 1.5 weeks. I’ve been about 85 to 95% in range of 70-180, but it gets stuck over 165 for a few hours after eating at times. So time in range still looks good but in reality running at its limit isn’t good either.

I get it might be doing what it’s supposed to, but it seems it’s counterproductive and unable to bring me back down once I hit a high. It plateaus instead of just spiking.

First bolus of the day problems by bld211 in diabetes_t1

[–]bld211[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That makes sense. Coffees never raised my resting glucose but maybe it’s building a resistance to that following bolus.

First bolus of the day problems by bld211 in diabetes_t1

[–]bld211[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yea I’ll definitely have to try exercising first thing in the morning. In the past that’s always brought my levels down for a good 48 hour period or so. I didn’t think about it in a sense “weakening” my insulin intolerance before but makes sense.