A Small Lesson

I have long been an advocate of frequent testing in the middle of the night.

This practice finally paid off.

For over two weeks, I have been unexpectedly high Bg’s at 3:30 am to 4:00 am
for no apparent reason; even low carb dinners resulted in a high of 200 or
so at the early hours, after being normal at bedtime.

The problem was finally located; the 12:00 am to 4:00 am basal setting had
mysteriously changed to 0.0, from its normal setting of 0.8! All other
basal settings remained correct. Since a new basal came in at 4:00 am for
the dawn syndrome, a spot check of the basal after 4:00 am did not reveal
the problem.

Had I not been checking in the middle of the night, this problem could have

gone undetected for some time, as the 4 am basal tended to offset the
earlier condition.

David

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