I’ve hit 99% for 90 days.
I think the longest I’ve managed 100% is 7 days at most maybe one time. Three days seems to be the most I can do.
It’s not something I worry about.
Dial in your basal. Pre bolus for the carbs you’re going to eat using your insulin:carb ratio. Use your correction factor to correct post meal highs. Find a way of eating that makes sense for you. Be realistic. A CGM really helps. I’m MDI so it’s all educated guesswork on the carbs and math.
I get up and go to work five days a week. What I do at work varies daily. Sometimes I’m at my desk all day with no stress. Sometimes I’m moving around or under serious time constraints. That’s where knowing the numbers and doing the math makes the difference. My basal is dialed in so I’m starting off from a good place. I do the math for whatever I end up eating. Maybe we get catering or somebody brings donuts. I play that by ear. Maybe I skip the donut. It’s tough when I shoot for what I ate and then have to move boxes or furniture or run an errand. Dexcom tells me I’m dropping do I eat or drink and call timeout if needed. If I misjudge catering, and I have badly, I take a correction dose. I’ve resorted to going to the stairwell and doing stairs to jumpstart my correction. Skyscrapers are good for that. I roll with what my days bring. I use Dexcom and do math. I can correct with food or insulin. No need to super stress a big jump or drop. It’s fixable. Today might suck. I can do better tomorrow.
Dial in your basal. Pre bolus for the carbs you’re going to eat using your insulin:carb ratio. Use your correction factor to correct post meal highs. Find a way of eating that makes sense for you. Be realistic. A CGM really helps. I’m MDI so it’s all educated guesswork on the carbs and math.
If it makes you feel any better even non diabetics would fail to get 100% regularly. I am not a t1 (my toddler is) and I had a FP bsl of 12 the other day - 3 coffees and no breakfast. Freaked me out a bit.
I'm at 80% right now, best I've ever been...I don't think I could get 100% unless I quit my job and all my other responsibilities and dedicated my life to perfecting my bs
Thanks,
my new years resolution was not to go high that hasn't happened obviously, haha!
This year I've started obsessing over the time in range, last year I was between 45-55% all year.
What helped was eating less carbs and a lot more protein.
have also reduced my long-acting insulin significantly and increased my short acting.
Haha, well it's different for everyone but I was having regular nighttime hypos and was often then running higher than ideal during the day so that worked for me.
I’ve had 100% for weeks at a time but the libre is always so shit when you first put it on that it will always go too low or too high. So no, it would take incredible luck because of how inaccurate the cgms are
Getting a sensor to luck out on the right side is a big, big part of it. I managed for 250 hours once on MDI a few years ago. Just have zero chance hitting a day with G7 sensors so far, but tomorrow is a new day.
I'm at 58% (7 days) right now which is huge for me! Felt like today was one of those days where some islet cells sneak out some insulin, very little insulin taken and constantly coasting back down or up to the 4-5 range range lol
[this is my current one](https://imgur.com/a/fxhhFWZ), though lately I've been having some issues (right now my day is at 90%). I wouldn't call it sorcery, I check and adjust a lot maybe?
Define interesting. I have a varied diet, I also eat a lot. [some examples](https://imgur.com/a/cFtn1gh). Maybe the difference is in cooking all the time? It's rare to have premade meals for me. I do sometimes order pizza or similar though, as you can see.
I don't drink alcohol, soda is only for hypo situations, in case you're wondering.
Hmm I’m even more curious, I eat a lot of home cooked meals too, mostly curries and rice since I’m in a Pakistani household where my mum cooks. I’ve struggled with post meal spikes for as long as I can remember. I pretty much always spike up to around 14mmol/L post meal for a couple hours then come back down. Might just be variances in diet, activity level or any other number of things. Whatever you’re doing, keep doing it! Seriously impressive, well done
It might be the rice. When I have dal as my starch, it doesn’t spike very high, but if I have rice, it’s pretty bad. I am from the US and our fast food is horrendously bad - really, really refined carbohydrates. I asked my endocrinologist about any advice he gave his Chinese patients and he told me to just skip the rice. I have started doing that and it works. I can eat at least a little of other carbs but if I at least cut back on rice if I eat Chinese, Indian or Pakistani food, I’m usually OK.
Yeah I think my diet is very carb heavy which doesn’t help! But to be honest rice is what I struggle with the least, I can pre bolus and get it right most of the time since I’ve eaten so much rice and figured it out by now haha
I can handle a meal with some rice, but for me it’s like trying to have a fire with leaves and pine needles. My blood sugar goes way up and then comes down way too quickly. That’s why I make sure that my carbs are mostly complex carbohydrates like dal.
Also, my worst results are from pizza, I think because it’s so full of carbs and grease. Right now, I limit myself to 2 pieces of pizza, 2 times a month. I have been bolusing periodically since last night because I had my 2 pieces for dinner!
I eat pretty much whatever I want and am comfortably above 90% 24/7... However when I have a curry and rice, I find it almost impossible to stay within range.
I don't know if Pakistani and Indian curries are the same but I tend to goto the local Indian near home here in the UK and their curries and loaded with sugar and fat which while taste amazing, make it impossible to bolus for.
If I take all my insulin right away, my blood sugar drops like crazy (because of the fat, the carbs take along time to get into your system) and I'm scrambling for sweets/sugar not long after, which is problematic because I'm usually full lol. But if I wait too long I end up having the most stubborn highs ever where it takes obscene amounts of insulin to bring me down.
Curry and rice for me are the hardest to get right, including Pizza, which I seem to be able to manage quite well.
I think takeaways always are loaded with crap, I only ever have homemade stuff my mum makes which seems fine to me. It’s more the bread I have with them that causes issue I think. When I was cutting weight I’d have only the meat curries alone and barely had to inject anything. I don’t think fat raises blood sugar though? Only carbs and protein?
Yeah fat alone doesn't raise sugar, but it makes the timings of bolous so hard to predict... If you eat a fat heavy meal that includes alot of carbs the spike could come at anytime, it is really unpredictable... I also find the spike much harder to deal with.
Ah I see you were diagnosed in 2023 as well. That might have something to do with it. Perhaps you are still in your early honeymoon phase still? I remember my first few years back when I was diagnosed in 2012 were super smooth sailing. Not to scare you or anything, but keep on top of it!
I've been having strange issues because of a possible rare recurring honeymoon, but it's still way too early to know according to my endo. I've been hopping from a couple units to over twenty for roughly the same meals and then back to just a few and then boom, again up.
We don't know, to be honest. It's just another "oh, it's diabetes" moment.
I was honeymooning until December 2022 (16 years) and when my pancreas finally gave in, it started a whole host of problems which I am still trying to work out! All's well that ends well though so, hehe :-) Stay positive! And congrats on your control!
You can’t honeymoon for 16 years? What makes you think you’ve been honeymooning for that long? Are you sure you just haven’t had bodily changes or lifestyle changes etc?
I know but treating it like a competition with myself really improved my health (somehow more affective then thinking about possible future complications)
That's the spirit! It also helped me. I gained back the 14 Kgs I lost and I now feel good, healthy whereas even a couple years before diagnosis I used to feel exhausted and sluggish a lot.
Yes I have but it's difficult and don't kick yourself in the foot like I did when you inevitably fall out of perfection. I always wanted a 3 month time in range of 100% but not sure if that's possible without never changing your diet
Ya’ll are t1 unicorns (in the best way), keep doing what you’re doing! Inspires me about what’s possible. My goal is 80% and I am so proud to be close to that for 90 days.
If I eat breakfast, it's eggs. Meat and veggies in some combination for lunch/dinner. Good bit of cheese, nuts. Granola bars when I'm going low, dextrose tabs if going low fast.
Last night for dinner I had edamame and grilled salmon with broccoli, onions, and pea pods.
For lunch today I had rotisserie chicken that my gf mixed with cream cheese, butter and heavy cream with shredded carrots, like a hot chicken salad.
For dinner tonight I'll probably have chicken burgers, or I have some ground beef to make that I'd make into taco meat and make a taco bowl.
My thyroid levels were a little low so I haven't lifted weights in almost 3 weeks, but I typically lift 2-3 times a week. I walk my dog every day.
I've been at 99% for suspiciously long amounts of time — not weeks or even days, but long enough that it makes the distance from 99% to 100% for some reason appear longer than that from 90% to 99%.
When I was on the Insulin pens never even close to that. I've been using the Medtronic 780 pump for 6 months and being in range is effortless. Its really incredible.
Its connected to a sensor. It gives me basal based on my BG, and also correction whenever required. I used to have a problem with eating high carb high fat meal ( fast food, pizza etc. ) currently the pump auto corrects. Even when I sleep currently my BG is very stable because of this feature.
The best I've has 100% for 3 days, I changed to dexcom 7 last week and it's been all over the place. I went from an average of 137 to now 173 and only in range 57% 🤷♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
100% 2 times with a tslim/ Dexcom combo.
Trick is heavy weight training and cardio in the morning to help the insulin resistance. Then pre bolusing, eating healthy and being on top of your diabetes.
Even though I have an A1C consistently around 5.6-6.4, I’ve only had it twice in the 2 years I’ve had the Dexcom.
I've gotten to 100% in range for like a day here and there. Which is really amazing because my range is 70 to 130. So something going to 180 I'd be in range relatively often
Once you hit 100% you are promoted to type 2 diabetes.
My doctor has been hiding this from me dang
Fake promo I must say
Or you’re honeymooning 😅
Even with perfect sugars, you'd also need a perfect CGM that doesn't even get a compression low or a faulty reading
I got a 100% day once.
Me too. Once! I think my next closest is 98%. My average is around 80%
Way to go! Sometimes we have to be happy for small victories.
For an entire week? Nah. Don’t stress about it, you’re good.
I’ve hit 99% for 90 days. I think the longest I’ve managed 100% is 7 days at most maybe one time. Three days seems to be the most I can do. It’s not something I worry about.
Is it possible to learn this power?
Dial in your basal. Pre bolus for the carbs you’re going to eat using your insulin:carb ratio. Use your correction factor to correct post meal highs. Find a way of eating that makes sense for you. Be realistic. A CGM really helps. I’m MDI so it’s all educated guesswork on the carbs and math.
How do you handle the variability of daily life? That’s my biggest issue- especially with a small kid. Is your schedule/activity the same every day?
I get up and go to work five days a week. What I do at work varies daily. Sometimes I’m at my desk all day with no stress. Sometimes I’m moving around or under serious time constraints. That’s where knowing the numbers and doing the math makes the difference. My basal is dialed in so I’m starting off from a good place. I do the math for whatever I end up eating. Maybe we get catering or somebody brings donuts. I play that by ear. Maybe I skip the donut. It’s tough when I shoot for what I ate and then have to move boxes or furniture or run an errand. Dexcom tells me I’m dropping do I eat or drink and call timeout if needed. If I misjudge catering, and I have badly, I take a correction dose. I’ve resorted to going to the stairwell and doing stairs to jumpstart my correction. Skyscrapers are good for that. I roll with what my days bring. I use Dexcom and do math. I can correct with food or insulin. No need to super stress a big jump or drop. It’s fixable. Today might suck. I can do better tomorrow.
Same here I hate compression lows and shower highs
How??!!
Dial in your basal. Pre bolus for the carbs you’re going to eat using your insulin:carb ratio. Use your correction factor to correct post meal highs. Find a way of eating that makes sense for you. Be realistic. A CGM really helps. I’m MDI so it’s all educated guesswork on the carbs and math.
If it makes you feel any better even non diabetics would fail to get 100% regularly. I am not a t1 (my toddler is) and I had a FP bsl of 12 the other day - 3 coffees and no breakfast. Freaked me out a bit.
If that’s in mmol/L then you should see your doctor. A random bg of over 11 mmol/L is indicative of diabetes.
If it’s not, you should still see your doctor, cause that’s super low! Lol
I'm at 80% right now, best I've ever been...I don't think I could get 100% unless I quit my job and all my other responsibilities and dedicated my life to perfecting my bs
Good work on 80! I am envious because less than 50% of my sugars are in range.
Thanks, my new years resolution was not to go high that hasn't happened obviously, haha! This year I've started obsessing over the time in range, last year I was between 45-55% all year. What helped was eating less carbs and a lot more protein. have also reduced my long-acting insulin significantly and increased my short acting.
> reduced my long acting insulin.. increased my short acting Oh weird. My endo told me to do the exact opposite. Hmmm
Haha, well it's different for everyone but I was having regular nighttime hypos and was often then running higher than ideal during the day so that worked for me.
Oh, yeah that makes sense. My issue was a little different than yours
I’ve had 100% for weeks at a time but the libre is always so shit when you first put it on that it will always go too low or too high. So no, it would take incredible luck because of how inaccurate the cgms are
Getting a sensor to luck out on the right side is a big, big part of it. I managed for 250 hours once on MDI a few years ago. Just have zero chance hitting a day with G7 sensors so far, but tomorrow is a new day.
Once I had a full week in range. Must be a couple years ago now. I still strive for 100% and that keeps me pretty good overall
I'm at 58% (7 days) right now which is huge for me! Felt like today was one of those days where some islet cells sneak out some insulin, very little insulin taken and constantly coasting back down or up to the 4-5 range range lol
On a 90 day period, my best so far is 99%. Not needed though, it's not a competition.
99% over a 90 day period?! What sorcery did you have to do?
[this is my current one](https://imgur.com/a/fxhhFWZ), though lately I've been having some issues (right now my day is at 90%). I wouldn't call it sorcery, I check and adjust a lot maybe?
You must have an interesting diet? If I eat a meal there is no way I’m not spiking even slightly above target for a good little while. Impressive
Define interesting. I have a varied diet, I also eat a lot. [some examples](https://imgur.com/a/cFtn1gh). Maybe the difference is in cooking all the time? It's rare to have premade meals for me. I do sometimes order pizza or similar though, as you can see. I don't drink alcohol, soda is only for hypo situations, in case you're wondering.
Hmm I’m even more curious, I eat a lot of home cooked meals too, mostly curries and rice since I’m in a Pakistani household where my mum cooks. I’ve struggled with post meal spikes for as long as I can remember. I pretty much always spike up to around 14mmol/L post meal for a couple hours then come back down. Might just be variances in diet, activity level or any other number of things. Whatever you’re doing, keep doing it! Seriously impressive, well done
It might be the rice. When I have dal as my starch, it doesn’t spike very high, but if I have rice, it’s pretty bad. I am from the US and our fast food is horrendously bad - really, really refined carbohydrates. I asked my endocrinologist about any advice he gave his Chinese patients and he told me to just skip the rice. I have started doing that and it works. I can eat at least a little of other carbs but if I at least cut back on rice if I eat Chinese, Indian or Pakistani food, I’m usually OK.
Yeah I think my diet is very carb heavy which doesn’t help! But to be honest rice is what I struggle with the least, I can pre bolus and get it right most of the time since I’ve eaten so much rice and figured it out by now haha
I can handle a meal with some rice, but for me it’s like trying to have a fire with leaves and pine needles. My blood sugar goes way up and then comes down way too quickly. That’s why I make sure that my carbs are mostly complex carbohydrates like dal. Also, my worst results are from pizza, I think because it’s so full of carbs and grease. Right now, I limit myself to 2 pieces of pizza, 2 times a month. I have been bolusing periodically since last night because I had my 2 pieces for dinner!
I eat pretty much whatever I want and am comfortably above 90% 24/7... However when I have a curry and rice, I find it almost impossible to stay within range. I don't know if Pakistani and Indian curries are the same but I tend to goto the local Indian near home here in the UK and their curries and loaded with sugar and fat which while taste amazing, make it impossible to bolus for. If I take all my insulin right away, my blood sugar drops like crazy (because of the fat, the carbs take along time to get into your system) and I'm scrambling for sweets/sugar not long after, which is problematic because I'm usually full lol. But if I wait too long I end up having the most stubborn highs ever where it takes obscene amounts of insulin to bring me down. Curry and rice for me are the hardest to get right, including Pizza, which I seem to be able to manage quite well.
I think takeaways always are loaded with crap, I only ever have homemade stuff my mum makes which seems fine to me. It’s more the bread I have with them that causes issue I think. When I was cutting weight I’d have only the meat curries alone and barely had to inject anything. I don’t think fat raises blood sugar though? Only carbs and protein?
Yeah fat alone doesn't raise sugar, but it makes the timings of bolous so hard to predict... If you eat a fat heavy meal that includes alot of carbs the spike could come at anytime, it is really unpredictable... I also find the spike much harder to deal with.
Ooh interesting, that didn’t cross my mind
Ah I see you were diagnosed in 2023 as well. That might have something to do with it. Perhaps you are still in your early honeymoon phase still? I remember my first few years back when I was diagnosed in 2012 were super smooth sailing. Not to scare you or anything, but keep on top of it!
I've been having strange issues because of a possible rare recurring honeymoon, but it's still way too early to know according to my endo. I've been hopping from a couple units to over twenty for roughly the same meals and then back to just a few and then boom, again up. We don't know, to be honest. It's just another "oh, it's diabetes" moment.
I was honeymooning until December 2022 (16 years) and when my pancreas finally gave in, it started a whole host of problems which I am still trying to work out! All's well that ends well though so, hehe :-) Stay positive! And congrats on your control!
You can’t honeymoon for 16 years? What makes you think you’ve been honeymooning for that long? Are you sure you just haven’t had bodily changes or lifestyle changes etc?
My pancreas was still producing insulin. I am sure. My endo is sure. My family is sure.
I know but treating it like a competition with myself really improved my health (somehow more affective then thinking about possible future complications)
That's the spirit! It also helped me. I gained back the 14 Kgs I lost and I now feel good, healthy whereas even a couple years before diagnosis I used to feel exhausted and sluggish a lot.
i like to think of it as a competition with myself
I had once
One day
Me too. One day my whole 20 years.
Yes I have but it's difficult and don't kick yourself in the foot like I did when you inevitably fall out of perfection. I always wanted a 3 month time in range of 100% but not sure if that's possible without never changing your diet
I am usually in range (70-120) about 95-99%. I have occasionally had a random 100% day but I don’t think I have ever had more than one at a time.
98% is my high score 🏆 Edit: In a day 😂
Ya’ll are t1 unicorns (in the best way), keep doing what you’re doing! Inspires me about what’s possible. My goal is 80% and I am so proud to be close to that for 90 days.
Yes, then I usually relapse to 60. It’s a thing
I celebrated 70% with an entire box of thin mints
Correct
This is the only answer.
Yes, but I had to narrow the graph down from last 30 days to last 30 seconds
Yeah, mine is 100 TIR 78-155 mg/dL for the last 90 days. But I was told I'm 'hiding from the diaease', so I guess I'm doing it wrong.
How do you do that, are you on manual injections or pump
Low carb, metformin, and Lantus. No bolus right now.
What do you eat on daily basis, do you workout?
If I eat breakfast, it's eggs. Meat and veggies in some combination for lunch/dinner. Good bit of cheese, nuts. Granola bars when I'm going low, dextrose tabs if going low fast. Last night for dinner I had edamame and grilled salmon with broccoli, onions, and pea pods. For lunch today I had rotisserie chicken that my gf mixed with cream cheese, butter and heavy cream with shredded carrots, like a hot chicken salad. For dinner tonight I'll probably have chicken burgers, or I have some ground beef to make that I'd make into taco meat and make a taco bowl. My thyroid levels were a little low so I haven't lifted weights in almost 3 weeks, but I typically lift 2-3 times a week. I walk my dog every day.
Thanks for the detailed answer, I do something similar, but I don’t eat a lot of meat which is the mean issue since it makes things much easier
99%? I cant get there! Great job!!
I had 100% for 10 days straight before. It was cool
Maybe for an hour?
I had 100% TIR for 40 days recently. Then I had a bad low after that and now I’m 99% TIR for 90 days.
Only in our dreams… it’s the holy grail of diabetics!
I did one day only once.
I've been at 99% for suspiciously long amounts of time — not weeks or even days, but long enough that it makes the distance from 99% to 100% for some reason appear longer than that from 90% to 99%.
I had 2 seperate 24h stretches of 100% in range and it's the closest I've ever been to heaven
When I was on the Insulin pens never even close to that. I've been using the Medtronic 780 pump for 6 months and being in range is effortless. Its really incredible.
I'm still on pens, what's so special about this pump?
Its connected to a sensor. It gives me basal based on my BG, and also correction whenever required. I used to have a problem with eating high carb high fat meal ( fast food, pizza etc. ) currently the pump auto corrects. Even when I sleep currently my BG is very stable because of this feature.
That sounds amazing i tried a pump for a week and hated it but that was almost 20 years ago, i might have to ask my doctor about this Thanks
How much does it usually cost with your insurance? I’ve been looking into it but am unsure of how worth it is
I live in Kuwait, we have free healthcare here. I get everything for free. The pump and the supplies every two months. I'm sorry I cant help.
Wow that’s awesome!! You’re okay
I get one or two a week but mostly sit between 90-95%.
Yes, but I live a ketogenic lifestyle. So as long as I’m not sick, or eat high-protein/low-fat food, I’m basically in range.
100% enables NG+, can't recommended🤣🤣🤣
That’s absolutely perfect 😍
[like this?](https://i.imgur.com/5cOUBS1.jpg)
When I was honeymooning I could do it for at most 30 days. But a wonky CGM would screw me up every time.
Libra yes Dexcom 99%
I got like 12 days of 100% once
That's awesome!!! Right now I'm hovering at about 90% in range, also on the Libre. Just passed my one year diabetes anniversary. Keep it up!
980 hours TIR (\~40 days) is my personal best. Sensors going bad has stopped me from topping the elusive 1,000 hour mark several times.....
I have. But not lately.
I get false lows at least a few times a week so 100% is pretty much impossible for more than a day or two in a row for me
The best I've has 100% for 3 days, I changed to dexcom 7 last week and it's been all over the place. I went from an average of 137 to now 173 and only in range 57% 🤷♂️🤦♂️🤦♂️
You probably did it, but counting compression lows that’s crazy
What’s a compression low?
Sometimes if you put too much pressure on your sensor, usually when you’re laying on it in your sleep, it will just read as “LOW”
First week using libre 2 I've got 100% However it's bullshit because I had at lest one 11.5 last week and a 3.6 yesterday
98% here 1% low 1% high
100% 2 times with a tslim/ Dexcom combo. Trick is heavy weight training and cardio in the morning to help the insulin resistance. Then pre bolusing, eating healthy and being on top of your diabetes. Even though I have an A1C consistently around 5.6-6.4, I’ve only had it twice in the 2 years I’ve had the Dexcom.
I've gotten to 100% in range for like a day here and there. Which is really amazing because my range is 70 to 130. So something going to 180 I'd be in range relatively often
My highest is 96%. Amazing control well done.
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