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Seasons Part II
Coloured Steps
[Make sure to check out Part I if you haven’t already…]
Patterns: Normal, Hyper & Hypo
I use felts to colour highs, lows (uncoloured for normal) BGLs
At bottom-right I TOTAL the patterns.
Counting the times I see a pattern (eg low-to-high, high during night, etc.). 9 patterns in total
Step-by-Step
Below is the first 5 weeks of my summer season of BGLs. Looks like my BGLs are tracking high-ish.
I’ll talk about the left-side, then the right-side.
(GREEN) I measure BGLs during my usual day. My day is split into 6 rough pieces of pie.
From after I fall asleep to before I wake up, I make a best guess what my BGLs were up to.
(RED) BGL high when I wake up = I assume it was high in the early morning (when I was asleep).
(YELLOW) BGL high when I went to bed, I assume it was high in the late night (again, when I was asleep)
The LEFT is all about recording the colours
There are at least 9 different patterns I’ve identified:
1) Normal BGL all day
2) HYPO-to-normal (well-treated); 3) HYPO->overtreat; 4) Loong-HYPO; 5) Night-HYPO (worst)
6) HYPER-to-normal; 7) HYPER->overtreat; 8) Loooong-HYPER (daytime); 9) Loooong-HYPER (asleep)
The RIGHT is all about counting patterns from the LEFT
EG 1, 1st day, 1st week:
(PINK) 2x hypers went to normal.
(PURPLE) 1 hyper went a longer time.
EG 2, 1st day, 5th week:
(RED) 2x hypos went to normal.
(YELLOW) 1 hypo went long.
(BLUE) 1 hyper over-treated
Finally, I write the totals in the bottom box to get a summary (13 weeks would give a better picture than 5 weeks):
Those looong night hypers look like a problem – the long day ones are close behind. Good info to know.
