Hi all,
I am a Type 1 on 20 units of Levemir twice a day (morning and night) and take various doses of Novorapid with each meal. My official dose for meals was set at 7 units for breakfast and lunch, 5 units for my evening meal, but now I find myself getting hypos almost daily. After the summer break I returned to university and am now much more active, and I found that after eating breakfast at 7.45am, my readings were below 3.6 or lower at 11am - 11.30am. I have lowered my dose to try and correct this problem and now only take 3 units in the morning rather than the 7 I previously had. This seemed to help, and upon testing at 12/12.30 my levels were perfect, 4.5-6 usually. But for the past week or so I have been getting hypos more frequently and at various points throughout the day. Unless my readings are elevated pre-meal I only take 3 units but hypos are still a frequent thing. For example, last night I had my evening meal at 8pm, which was a stirfry containing egg noodles, so quite carby I thought, but my reading at 10.30pm was 2.2!
I am going to try and get my next clinic appointment moved forward as I'm not due to see them untill the 30th of November, but in the meantime I wondered if anyone had any suggestions about what to do. I'm quite worried about hypos as sometimes I don't notice until it's very low (1-2) and wondered if anyone who's had a similar problem has any advice? I deliberately include a decent amount of carbs with each meal and as I said have lowered my Novorapid doses, but it is very difficult to keep my levels up.
I was wondering if it might be a good idea to lower my Levemir dose, or whether I should further reduce the Novorapid? 3 units seems very low compared to what I was taking, which is why I thought maybe it was the Levemir that needs to be adjusted?
Or maybe there's dietary changes I can make to sustain decent levels?
I'm quite new to this, as I was only diagnosed last December and until August I had very erratic and usually v. high readings, so it's only the past couple of months that I have been having these problems.
Any advice would be very much appreciated, as I've found that this forum is a great source of information and very useful
Thanks,
Natalie x
I am a Type 1 on 20 units of Levemir twice a day (morning and night) and take various doses of Novorapid with each meal. My official dose for meals was set at 7 units for breakfast and lunch, 5 units for my evening meal, but now I find myself getting hypos almost daily. After the summer break I returned to university and am now much more active, and I found that after eating breakfast at 7.45am, my readings were below 3.6 or lower at 11am - 11.30am. I have lowered my dose to try and correct this problem and now only take 3 units in the morning rather than the 7 I previously had. This seemed to help, and upon testing at 12/12.30 my levels were perfect, 4.5-6 usually. But for the past week or so I have been getting hypos more frequently and at various points throughout the day. Unless my readings are elevated pre-meal I only take 3 units but hypos are still a frequent thing. For example, last night I had my evening meal at 8pm, which was a stirfry containing egg noodles, so quite carby I thought, but my reading at 10.30pm was 2.2!
I am going to try and get my next clinic appointment moved forward as I'm not due to see them untill the 30th of November, but in the meantime I wondered if anyone had any suggestions about what to do. I'm quite worried about hypos as sometimes I don't notice until it's very low (1-2) and wondered if anyone who's had a similar problem has any advice? I deliberately include a decent amount of carbs with each meal and as I said have lowered my Novorapid doses, but it is very difficult to keep my levels up.
I was wondering if it might be a good idea to lower my Levemir dose, or whether I should further reduce the Novorapid? 3 units seems very low compared to what I was taking, which is why I thought maybe it was the Levemir that needs to be adjusted?
Or maybe there's dietary changes I can make to sustain decent levels?
I'm quite new to this, as I was only diagnosed last December and until August I had very erratic and usually v. high readings, so it's only the past couple of months that I have been having these problems.
Any advice would be very much appreciated, as I've found that this forum is a great source of information and very useful
Thanks,
Natalie x