{"id":1485,"date":"2013-06-07T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2013-06-07T09:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/?page_id=1485"},"modified":"2025-12-08T15:39:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T21:39:05","slug":"blood-glucose-pattern-management","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/blood-glucose-pattern-management\/","title":{"rendered":"Blood Glucose Pattern Management"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>How to Manage Your Blood Glucose Patterns<\/h1>\n<div class=\"lyte-wrapper fourthree\" title=\"Blood Glucose Pattern Management\" style=\"width:420px;max-width:100%;margin:5px auto;\"><div class=\"lyMe\" id=\"WYL_DxDyBvAUXBk\"><div id=\"lyte_DxDyBvAUXBk\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FDxDyBvAUXBk%2Fhqdefault.jpg\" class=\"pL\"><div class=\"tC\"><div class=\"tT\">Blood Glucose Pattern Management<\/div><\/div><div class=\"play\"><\/div><div class=\"ctrl\"><div class=\"Lctrl\"><\/div><div class=\"Rctrl\"><\/div><\/div><\/div><noscript><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/DxDyBvAUXBk\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-youtube-lyte\/lyteCache.php?origThumbUrl=https%3A%2F%2Fi.ytimg.com%2Fvi%2FDxDyBvAUXBk%2F0.jpg\" alt=\"Blood Glucose Pattern Management\" width=\"420\" height=\"295\" \/><br \/>Watch this video on YouTube<\/a><\/noscript><\/div><\/div><div class=\"lL\" style=\"max-width:100%;width:420px;margin:5px auto;\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"accordion\"><input id=\"transcript\" type=\"checkbox\" class=\"spoiler_button\" \/><label for=\"transcript\">Transcript<\/label>\n<div class=\"spoiler\" id=\"transcript-spoiler\">\n<p>We\u2019re going to take the next couple of minutes and talk about <strong>blood glucose pattern management<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>When people want to manage their own insulin levels and their own diabetes treatment, this can be helpful for them. Basically, it\u2019s taking a 3 to 5 day period, and collecting the readings over the entire day and then looking for patterns in that 3 to 5 day period that correspond to either a spike or a decrease in glycemic levels that occur at the same time each day. <strong>So it\u2019s part of a diabetes self-management program.<\/strong> You can take an analysis of a 3 to 5 day period of those glucose readings, and then you identify patterns of both high and low glucose that occur at the same time each day.<\/p>\n<p>So you\u2019re noticing that there\u2019s a spike or a drop perhaps in the afternoon, after lunch or before supper, or associated with something else, but it appears repeatedly throughout that 3 to 5 day period. Because it is repeated, we have a pattern there, and because you\u2019re not just responding to each individual measurement, like oh no it\u2019s high I\u2019ve gotta do this, or it\u2019s low I\u2019ve gotta do that, you\u2019re saying I can plan ahead &#8211; I know that consistently during the week I\u2019m going to have a spike or at this point I\u2019m going to have a low and can respond appropriately, so it\u2019s actually very helpful in self-management.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Basically what you do then is you would make adjustments based on the trend.<\/strong> And adjustment can take many forms, it\u2019s not always the same thing, but you\u2019re seeing a trend, and you can start tweaking things to help manage that trend and smooth out the bumps. And so one thing you can do is adjust the insulin level up or down based on the pattern and the time of day that it would be necessary to do that. Or you could also adjust carb consumption up or down at particular points of the day to reflect that pattern as well and help smooth out that pattern, or you can also change exercise frequency, timing or intensity.<\/p>\n<p><strong>So exercise frequency, timing, or intensity, which also has an impact on glycemic levels.<\/strong> So there\u2019s a lot of options, but knowing when to use those options and what amounts to use those options are best determined by blood glucose pattern management, that 3 to 5 day period where you\u2019re looking for patterns &#8211; spikes or dips in glycemic levels that occur at the same time each day, and then responding appropriately either with medication, diet, or exercise changes.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How to Manage Your Blood Glucose Patterns<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":{"0":"post-1485","1":"page","2":"type-page","3":"status-publish","5":"page_category-endocrine-system-videos","6":"page_category-patient-care-videos","7":"page_type-video","8":"page_domain-nursing"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1485","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1485"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1485\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53207,"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1485\/revisions\/53207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mometrix.com\/academy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1485"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}