NicoleC1971
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Pump
Honestly with eye complications, frequent hypos and hba1c and bgs consistently so high I think you definitely need to see a consultant led team (GP should refer you to tier 3 services and I am surprised that hasn't already happened except perhaps you haven't been able to even access basic gp services perhaps?) to get on top of this in a systematic way with a structure to follow. Its hard for us to give you that here but we do get the frustration, exhaustion and confusion part.Hi yep understand that, treating a hypo when it's not isn't helping. But yesterday think my sugars was around 18 so in theory I would of thought most people would have just 3 units with no carbs just as a correctional dose, I thought if I had extra units on top of the 30 grams of carbs I ate probably would of brought it down too low, I've been on this regime around 6 months or more now, at night although high it is stable and stays around the same all night, but as for taking the nova rapid it's like sometimes it works sometimes it doesn't iam just lost, thought I can get it where I can say I've had that amount of carbs IL take this amount of extra insulin then it should bring it down to around this level. As it's so unpredictable iam finding IAM more cautious to what correctional doses etc I should do. IAM doing a injection now and waiting around 3 hours thinking whatever it decides to do today after a few hours it isn't alot. I would do a background test to see if that's correct, but in the last year or so I don't think I've had one bg test in the normal range single figure etc. So I am not sure as is says to do a background test it needs to be in normal range. Just being told a consultants are hard to get hold of, not sure what the criteria is to see one, ie hba1c over 100 losing a lot of vision in one eye needing laser now in the good eye and injections protein in urine only 41 think some people would of seen a consultant or had extra help by now, spose some of us get it some don't, that's why on this forum for any help at all
- You're very worried about the high blood sugars and seem to be over correcting by stacking up correction doses without giving the previous ones the chance to work. Don't over test or consume too much lucosade 'just in cse'. It is really hard to correct a high bg because the body continues to produce its own glucose for reasons I explain in the next bullet.
- You need help getting the basal right so background sugars aren't creeping up and making you need the correction doses. Even when not eating the type 1 liver chugs out a load of glucose and in normies it would be inhibited by the presence of insulin.
- On the plus side if you can stick to limited carbs (30-40g) and about the same each meal, then I think you can get the bolus ratio right but the trick will be to arrive at a meal time with a normal bg in the first place.
Best of luck with the eyes today!