Hello,
I had my first face to face appt last week in diabetic clinic in our hospital (18mths since diagnosis of ‘slow onset type 1’ - last autumn was a phone call appt with the consultant, 1st one).
It was a different consultant. She told me many things , inc that I’m LADA, and all my questions went out the window as I was trying to understand what I should be doing from what she said!
I’m struggling to fully understand and remember exactly what she said about a blood glucose reading/numbers being affected from the meal before or the day before??
And that I can adjust my insulin accordingly and not to rely on constantly looking at my numbers. And not to keep eating (I was leaving the cgm app open on my phone so I can see how my levels are and then eating when going low/to prevent going too low, and my cholesterol is high).
So since the appt I’ve been better at not checking the app constantly and not eating in between meals so I feel I’ve managed my meals and levels better. Not altered insulin too much. However this morning upon checking the app it looks like I’ve been high all night - up to 15mmol and just coming down to 11mmol. My dinner yesterday evening was pretty low carb followed by an oat based dessert which was small anyway. And I had my usual 7units ( I am on low doses of insulin probably compared to most people).
So because I can’t remember exactly or fully understand what she said about the day before or the meal before is what affects the levels, I was hoping someone might shed some light on which meal affects BG levels at which point of the day or which day, especially now as last night I’ve been so high all night.
Apologies if not making sense or if no one can get what I’m saying. I am waiting for consultant to phone back with blood results at some point so intend to ask again anyway but just wondered in the meantime.
Thanks very much in advance.
I had my first face to face appt last week in diabetic clinic in our hospital (18mths since diagnosis of ‘slow onset type 1’ - last autumn was a phone call appt with the consultant, 1st one).
It was a different consultant. She told me many things , inc that I’m LADA, and all my questions went out the window as I was trying to understand what I should be doing from what she said!
I’m struggling to fully understand and remember exactly what she said about a blood glucose reading/numbers being affected from the meal before or the day before??
And that I can adjust my insulin accordingly and not to rely on constantly looking at my numbers. And not to keep eating (I was leaving the cgm app open on my phone so I can see how my levels are and then eating when going low/to prevent going too low, and my cholesterol is high).
So since the appt I’ve been better at not checking the app constantly and not eating in between meals so I feel I’ve managed my meals and levels better. Not altered insulin too much. However this morning upon checking the app it looks like I’ve been high all night - up to 15mmol and just coming down to 11mmol. My dinner yesterday evening was pretty low carb followed by an oat based dessert which was small anyway. And I had my usual 7units ( I am on low doses of insulin probably compared to most people).
So because I can’t remember exactly or fully understand what she said about the day before or the meal before is what affects the levels, I was hoping someone might shed some light on which meal affects BG levels at which point of the day or which day, especially now as last night I’ve been so high all night.
Apologies if not making sense or if no one can get what I’m saying. I am waiting for consultant to phone back with blood results at some point so intend to ask again anyway but just wondered in the meantime.
Thanks very much in advance.
