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I am a 75 year old woman, T2 and insulin resistant. It seems possible that I started all this with gestational diabetes but since my younger son was born in 1969, it's not going to be possible to prove that. Whatever - it's been pretty long standing and well established in my body.
I have tried low carbing to both reduce BG levels and to lose weight. However, this has not worked. Certainly eating carbs does put my BG up to ridiculous levels, but cutting out all possible carbs doesn't bring levels down to the recommended range. I try not to have more than one or two meals a day. And I'm semi permanently hungry!
I have just been provided with a Libre 2 and am trying to get used to it. It seems to be indicating that with a change of timing of injecting my basal dose (Lantus Solostar) it seems to be helping a bit during the morning (as long as I stay off the carbs) but then on some days my BG drops down to the lower 4s in the afternoon - other days it doesn't. So far, it seems quite unstable. I also take a bolus dose of Humalog before any meals during the day. Both kinds of doses are higher than I would like and my diabetes nurse says she thinks however much I take, it's not going to make any difference, so don't bother increasing the dose any more.
Other health issues mean that I have to take a cocktail of pills and that I don't sleep any more than 3 hours a night and then am drowsy during the day whenever I sit down, which I have to do fairly often. Then I might drop off and sleep for an hour.
I wonder if this pattern seems familiar to anyone else and if there are any suggestions on how to deal with it or where to go from here.
I have tried low carbing to both reduce BG levels and to lose weight. However, this has not worked. Certainly eating carbs does put my BG up to ridiculous levels, but cutting out all possible carbs doesn't bring levels down to the recommended range. I try not to have more than one or two meals a day. And I'm semi permanently hungry!
I have just been provided with a Libre 2 and am trying to get used to it. It seems to be indicating that with a change of timing of injecting my basal dose (Lantus Solostar) it seems to be helping a bit during the morning (as long as I stay off the carbs) but then on some days my BG drops down to the lower 4s in the afternoon - other days it doesn't. So far, it seems quite unstable. I also take a bolus dose of Humalog before any meals during the day. Both kinds of doses are higher than I would like and my diabetes nurse says she thinks however much I take, it's not going to make any difference, so don't bother increasing the dose any more.
Other health issues mean that I have to take a cocktail of pills and that I don't sleep any more than 3 hours a night and then am drowsy during the day whenever I sit down, which I have to do fairly often. Then I might drop off and sleep for an hour.
I wonder if this pattern seems familiar to anyone else and if there are any suggestions on how to deal with it or where to go from here.