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- Type of diabetes
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Right i'll try and keep this short but need some advice.
Diagnosed in pregnancy 3 yrs ago (said I was probably diabetic before because my HBA1C was stupidly high), had my daughter and then 4 months later was pregnant with my second daughter who is now 1.5 yrs old. It was between pregnancies I was diagnosed as Type 1 and since the first pregnancy I've been on insulin. Now I've always been told I will have a bit of a honeymoon period where I won't need a lot of insulin etc. I needed a fair bit in pregnancy both times but still small amounts. Last year I did a DAFNE course but my HBA1C has always been ok (last one done a few weeks ago 52.
Anyway fast forward the last 6 months or so...... i've been on a health kick, bought a fitbug, been walking 6-7 miles a day, limiting calories (not having loads of carbs, I'm still not the best eater) and lost 2.5 stones. Now with my walking I've found that I've needed approx 3-5 units of novorapid a day and thats it. A year ago it was probably 30 (DAFNE did make me realise i was taking far too much), but I was doing the general 1-10g of carbs and thats been cut to about a third. I could generally have a breakfast of 30g/40g and no insulin as the walking I did afterwards helped. I have been having 1 unit of background in a morning and I did have 1 unit of background at night but cut that a few weeks ago but i have just started it again.
Anyway (again), the last 2 days or so my blood sugars have been higher. My walking hasn't differed, neither has my food.
Yesterday for example
Morning was around 7, had 30g carbs for breakfast, so did 0.5 quick (before could have been no units), was still 7 before lunch. Had 55g for lunch and 2.5 units. Before dinner I was 8 something and had approx 40g dinner and 2 units with it. Had a snack (was 5.2 before snack) which was 17g so had 1 and about 3 hours later I was 12. Now I know these aren't huge numbers and considering i'm not taking a lot of insulin with food either, but they are higher for me. I think I'm dehydrated (didn't drink much yesterday) and had a migraine. Obviously I will see how the next few days go, but could my honeymoon period literally change overnight?
I know in general if I went back to 1 unit to 10g carbs even then it wouldn't be big numbers of insulin, but I've got used to not a lot of insulin at the moment it seems a big jump to me. My questions, could this be the end of my honeymoon period? Could it just be a one off being dehydrated or having a migraine (a side note I generally do tend to have a low level of ketones, generally 0.6 or below but yesterday I'll admit I had none but this morning I've got a level of 0.6) or could it just be something else? I end up rambling and this probably doesn't make to much sense, but if someone reads this and has had a honeymoon period and can tell how their's went then it might help. I was told probably about 2 years ago that my honeymoon period might last a year (originally diagnosed as Type 1 as I had a very very high number of ANTI-GAD? antibodies). Lately i've been questioning my type 1 diagnosis and thinking i'm more type 2, seeing as i'm eating better, losing weight and not needing that much insulin. I just don't know
Diagnosed in pregnancy 3 yrs ago (said I was probably diabetic before because my HBA1C was stupidly high), had my daughter and then 4 months later was pregnant with my second daughter who is now 1.5 yrs old. It was between pregnancies I was diagnosed as Type 1 and since the first pregnancy I've been on insulin. Now I've always been told I will have a bit of a honeymoon period where I won't need a lot of insulin etc. I needed a fair bit in pregnancy both times but still small amounts. Last year I did a DAFNE course but my HBA1C has always been ok (last one done a few weeks ago 52.
Anyway fast forward the last 6 months or so...... i've been on a health kick, bought a fitbug, been walking 6-7 miles a day, limiting calories (not having loads of carbs, I'm still not the best eater) and lost 2.5 stones. Now with my walking I've found that I've needed approx 3-5 units of novorapid a day and thats it. A year ago it was probably 30 (DAFNE did make me realise i was taking far too much), but I was doing the general 1-10g of carbs and thats been cut to about a third. I could generally have a breakfast of 30g/40g and no insulin as the walking I did afterwards helped. I have been having 1 unit of background in a morning and I did have 1 unit of background at night but cut that a few weeks ago but i have just started it again.
Anyway (again), the last 2 days or so my blood sugars have been higher. My walking hasn't differed, neither has my food.
Yesterday for example
Morning was around 7, had 30g carbs for breakfast, so did 0.5 quick (before could have been no units), was still 7 before lunch. Had 55g for lunch and 2.5 units. Before dinner I was 8 something and had approx 40g dinner and 2 units with it. Had a snack (was 5.2 before snack) which was 17g so had 1 and about 3 hours later I was 12. Now I know these aren't huge numbers and considering i'm not taking a lot of insulin with food either, but they are higher for me. I think I'm dehydrated (didn't drink much yesterday) and had a migraine. Obviously I will see how the next few days go, but could my honeymoon period literally change overnight?
I know in general if I went back to 1 unit to 10g carbs even then it wouldn't be big numbers of insulin, but I've got used to not a lot of insulin at the moment it seems a big jump to me. My questions, could this be the end of my honeymoon period? Could it just be a one off being dehydrated or having a migraine (a side note I generally do tend to have a low level of ketones, generally 0.6 or below but yesterday I'll admit I had none but this morning I've got a level of 0.6) or could it just be something else? I end up rambling and this probably doesn't make to much sense, but if someone reads this and has had a honeymoon period and can tell how their's went then it might help. I was told probably about 2 years ago that my honeymoon period might last a year (originally diagnosed as Type 1 as I had a very very high number of ANTI-GAD? antibodies). Lately i've been questioning my type 1 diagnosis and thinking i'm more type 2, seeing as i'm eating better, losing weight and not needing that much insulin. I just don't know