OP5 settings help :)
Please remove this if it’s not allowed! I will be discussing any advice with my endo before changing my settings too much.
So my goal is to have super tight control. With MDI I was pretty much 100% TIR 70-180 mg/dl and probably 95% 70-140 mg/dl. I’m still honeymooning I presume btw.
With starting OP5, I’m having a bit harder time keeping good numbers. Noting crazy at all. I’m around 85-90% TIR, so I’m happy, but I have to constantly check and do correction blouses and sometimes overrides (although I try not to since my endo says it messed up the algorithm). I’d really like to be able to bolus and not have to stare at it for the next 6 hours. Since I’m in college, I’ve literally been eating no carbs during the day because I don’t want to be distracted in class, and just eating carbs at night. I’d love to be able to spread that out some more.
The biggest red flag in my data is that I’m usually 70% bolus or more and 30% basal. My endo told me to try to get it down to 50-50 ish, but proceeded to not change any of my settings or tell me how to do that other than reliably count carbs. I’d say I’m good about carb counting super accurately 50% of the time (weighing stuff etc), then kind of by vibes the other half of the time. I do almost always pre bolus 15-20 mins. The only days I get 50/50 are those that I eat super low carb (see picture with the only 50/50 day being 55g of carbs).
I rarely have been going low so that’s been great! I’d go low a couple times a week with MDI. MDI I took 8 units basal, and now with OP5 I’m around 4 units daily.
Let Me know if you have any advice I could bring up with the endo. I attached some images for reference. Thank you so much!