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Do LADAs have a rougher deal than T1s in the furst year or am I the only one in this frustrating situation?
Once on insulin in December the difference was amazing. I was on small fixed bolus amounts with morning basal shot.
I started going high randomly and was in a messy situation of trying to.do 1:10 ratio.( having not been on. DAFNE) then doing correction doses and generally swinging from glucose levels from 8-19 and dropping to 4-8. I was struggling to do my job and was experiencing nausea, dizziness, blurry eyes funnily enough a bit like the pre insulin days.
Colleages and managers started to ask if i was ok seemingly i looked pale and disoriented.
Anyway after 3 weeks. The DN decided it was ba ck to the drawing board. She upped bot h basal and bolus and basal was now fixed to meals . I felt amazing for a week, readings were about 4-8/9 even my morning readings were more 7s than 9/10.....i had an immensley productive week but i did notuce i felt weird when slipping into 6 and below (this has always been the case).
So DN said pare back the basal by 1 unit. Two days in now my bolus doesn't seem.to be enough and am back to getting highs and feeling horrid
It's frustrating to say the least...any one else here T1 and T1.5 care to share their early days stories?
Once on insulin in December the difference was amazing. I was on small fixed bolus amounts with morning basal shot.
I started going high randomly and was in a messy situation of trying to.do 1:10 ratio.( having not been on. DAFNE) then doing correction doses and generally swinging from glucose levels from 8-19 and dropping to 4-8. I was struggling to do my job and was experiencing nausea, dizziness, blurry eyes funnily enough a bit like the pre insulin days.
Colleages and managers started to ask if i was ok seemingly i looked pale and disoriented.
Anyway after 3 weeks. The DN decided it was ba ck to the drawing board. She upped bot h basal and bolus and basal was now fixed to meals . I felt amazing for a week, readings were about 4-8/9 even my morning readings were more 7s than 9/10.....i had an immensley productive week but i did notuce i felt weird when slipping into 6 and below (this has always been the case).
So DN said pare back the basal by 1 unit. Two days in now my bolus doesn't seem.to be enough and am back to getting highs and feeling horrid
It's frustrating to say the least...any one else here T1 and T1.5 care to share their early days stories?