Hi everyone,
I'm just looking for a bit of reassurance really. My husband was diagnosed type 1 on new years eve (Happy new year haha), roughly 2 months ago.
First of all, his blood sugar was always very high, anywhere between 18-25. Over the following weeks, he adjusted both insulin pens to a high dose, and it did seem alot better and came down quite alot.
It started to be a good reading everyday (all 3) so he dropped the insulin amounts down to reflect this. However, he now keeps going hypo, at least once a day. He had 3 in one day last week and I'm not sure what to do or why this is happening. I'm very worried.
We had dinner last night around 8, and by about 10pm he was experiencing a hypo. He was ravenous, slurring his words and quite shakey.
I've read some bits online about it being quite normal for a newly diagnosed type 1 to have blood sugar levels up and down constantly. Is that true? Does it seem like this seems to be the issue?
He does have an appointment with the diabetic team at our doctors surgery next week, but they haven't really been much use. Everything we have learnt about carbs, insulin and pretty much everything to do with type 1 has been down to my cousin's husband who has been type 1 since a young age. At his last appointment the nurse actually said to him "Oh I usually deal with type 2" when he was asking questions!
Any advice will be really, really appreciated.
Thanks
I'm just looking for a bit of reassurance really. My husband was diagnosed type 1 on new years eve (Happy new year haha), roughly 2 months ago.
First of all, his blood sugar was always very high, anywhere between 18-25. Over the following weeks, he adjusted both insulin pens to a high dose, and it did seem alot better and came down quite alot.
It started to be a good reading everyday (all 3) so he dropped the insulin amounts down to reflect this. However, he now keeps going hypo, at least once a day. He had 3 in one day last week and I'm not sure what to do or why this is happening. I'm very worried.
We had dinner last night around 8, and by about 10pm he was experiencing a hypo. He was ravenous, slurring his words and quite shakey.
I've read some bits online about it being quite normal for a newly diagnosed type 1 to have blood sugar levels up and down constantly. Is that true? Does it seem like this seems to be the issue?
He does have an appointment with the diabetic team at our doctors surgery next week, but they haven't really been much use. Everything we have learnt about carbs, insulin and pretty much everything to do with type 1 has been down to my cousin's husband who has been type 1 since a young age. At his last appointment the nurse actually said to him "Oh I usually deal with type 2" when he was asking questions!
Any advice will be really, really appreciated.
Thanks