1st jab

[tom79]

Hi! just had my very 1st jab about 5mins ago, bs was 18.8, will be interesting to see how it drops, ill check again in an hour or so.

Exciting in a way, for the single reason i now know nothing bad is going to happen and I will start to feel ok again (I have started to look ill, at work i even had people asking if i was ok because i looked like an extra from train spotting)

I must say I was cra**ing myself with the idea of needles, but its not bad at all, ok i would prefer to not have too, much it could be much much worse.

Oh the nurse said to me when I went in for my training and so on

"you smell like a diabetic" WHHAT!!! aparently when its no controlled we smell of pear drops... :lol:

 

[donnellysdogs]

Gosh, aren't things done differently nowadays...25 yrs ago, I was in hospital 4 days and had my levels brough down to a normal range before I came home, and I was sent running up and down 4 flights of stairs until I went hypo, so I could experience before I went home....

Did I read that you got a training session and sent home to do your first injection? Can't believe how much things have changed nowadays.

Hoping you get your levels down from the double figures soon....

Best wishes
Sharon

 

[janabelle]

That's brilliant Tom
I'm so glad you've found the injectiions not so daunting, you must feel proud of yourself and so you should!
You'll start to put on a bit of weight and look less like a drug addict soon, even though you are injecting now :lol:
Your posting will be a huge help to other newly diagnosed type-1s with the same fears about needles.
Jus

 

[Daver]

Nice one Tom. Take a bit of time for yourself. If you have any questions this is a great place to ask them - this site has helped me so much when I found out I was T1 in March.

Take it easy

Dave

 

[totsy]

brilliant tom,
as for the pear drops, i believe we can smell of them if we have ketones glad it wasnt too daunting for u

 

[mrburden]

Congratulations.Hope you go from strength to strength!
I remember my first one, as an 11 year old child. I was quite lucky that my mother was a nurse and had got me to practice injecting an orange, time and time again! Still I remember thinking how doing that was not going to be the same as doing it to myself - ever!
But you soon settle into the task, don't you.
About a year ago, when I was a bit bored in hospital, I worked out that I have given myself around 48,500 insulin injections now, plus the extra needles for blood tests and canulas etc. Quite surprising really how the body allows that to be done with very little to see as a result.

 

[tom79]

Thanks all, my blood went down to 8 today for the 1st time, but that pasta soon brought it back to 14 so I need to watch it, but it is going the right way, my ketones are going down also (phew!)

wow donnellysdogs, sounds a much different experience to me, yes thats right, even though my blood was very high and I had so much keytones I smelt like a peardrop (aparently) they still sent me home with nothing! but refered me the following day to see a specialist, the specilist was not impressed by this, sounds like she is investigating it. I live alone, if anything happened to me I would be in serious problems but it didnt and now is all getting there, and yer they sent me home to do my 1st jab, however I get lots of calls to check up on me.

Well I do hope my little post of fears helps someone anyways, I laugth at myself sometimes as I bet I 1st looked like a very scared extra from that train spotting film! and yup janabelle I do look like a drug addict now, with bruses on my arms from having blood taken that I didnt realise I had, went into work skinny, pale and brused arms! :shock:

I got taught how to deal with Hypers today and how I should eat a little before bed, what do you guys and girls find works well for this?

 

[totsy]

for hypers i inject a correction dose with my next meal, for hypos i use glucotabs and on a night i dont go to bed under 8mmol or i hypo, we are all different and u must find what works for u

 

[tom79]

for hypers i inject a correction dose with my next meal, for hypos i use glucotabs and on a night i dont go to bed under 8mmol or i hypo, we are all different and u must find what works for u

Thanks true, in one hand I need to get my ketones down asap but in the other I am a bit worried about hypo, I had pasta for dinner, it slowly raised both ketones and glucose for hours! such a shame I do like pasta.

 

[donnellysdogs]

It is a bit of a balancing game on injections and insulins and hypo's and hypers, expecially around bedtime. What insulin are you on?
I found that my night-time hypo's disappeared when I split my dose of glargine, but it took 25 years of night-time hypo's before reading on this site that night time hypo's could be helped through a split long acting (morning and night instead of once daily). However, that then did stop the night hypo's, but gave some day hypo's instead.
I always found that a tommee tippee(large baby beaker) mug of milk and one sugar would help me most with hypo's but, as you know from answering my other posting, my HCP's don't like me having them and insist on the 3 or 4 jelly babies..
When I went to a split dosage of long term glargineif I was between 4-6 before going to bed I would eat 1 slice of bread. That would keep my levels raised enough to get me through, but wouldn't raise them too high.

 

[tom79]

YEs im not sure I am quite there yet, still goes a little high but its getting better.

I am on Novamix 30, I use it 2 times a day. I think ill aim for about no less than 8 before bed just to be safe to start.

Oh any ideas why my ketones go up when I eat? I dont understand, I have to test again in an hour and if now lower do another couple of mm of my Novamix, they where high high, then earlier today came down and down till I had pasta then flew up again!

 

[totsy]

the ketones will go higher the more u eat foods with sugars at the moment and sadly pasta is high in carbs :?

 

[tom79]

the ketones will go higher the more u eat foods with sugars at the moment and sadly pasta is high in carbs :?

Yer I have learnt my lession with pasta/high carbs as its making it tricky to manage.

Oh by the way, I know if my BG is about 7 or 8 to have a snack before bed, if it is higher should I still have a snack?

 

[totsy]

i personally wouldnt ,but nobody can decide for you

 

[tom79]

Thanks, ill give it a miss also I think.

My ketones went up again, so they putting my dose of Novamix 30 up to 14 in morning and 16 in evening, I hope this works I want to get rid of them!

 

[totsy]

its early days yet so dont worry, you will get the hang of it, it just takes time, i never did great on twice daily sadly :? but with all the help u have u will

 

[tom79]

I hope so, I am starting to think my Ketones are more to do with lack of food, im just not eating enought. I think mainly because im worried about BG, they put my dose up today but I didnt eat loads, well less than yesterday and my Ketones are more.

I am going to hospital tomorrow for a couple of tests so I will mention it then, the problem I got is I am told to take a certain dose in the morning and before tea of Novamix 30 but I have no ide how much/if I should very it. I just dont eat the same every day!

What I do know is I need to put on weight, and get rid of my Ketones so I need more food, but if I eat more I get high BG obviously and am unsure how to control this with Novamix 30.

I did find this: http://www.medicines.org.uk/emc/medicine/8591

The link gives dose adjustments but im worried because of the long lasting bit, its later at night now and im hungry and im unsure if I should have some food, and test and adjust as on this or not..

Oh a sidenote, any ideas what I could eat that wont rocket my sugars butbe filling and help put on weight? :shock:

 

[Dollyrocker]

Proteins will keep you full without making you blood sugars go crazy, eggs and bacon are good,any kind of meat and/or cheese,cauliflower is alsolow carb so cauliflower cheese is a good one but because you're on a mixed insulin you'll need a certain amount of carbs to avoid going hypo.

you might want to ask if you can switch to a basal/bolus regime rather than a mixed insulin as it gives you a lot more control. you'll need to also learn about carb counting though as it's all about matching your insulin to the carbs you're going to eat.

 

[tom79]

Ok then thanks, Ill buy some Tuna then also, maybe have a cracker before bed for carbs to cover me at night.

for once my BG was the same before after the meal (2 hours after) than it was before which aparently is good? but it was still 13.5 which is as you know too high but much better.

I think what you mention is a little too advanced for me right now but I wonder if i can do something like this with my Novamix. I better ask Hospital, they cant expect me to eat the same every day!

 

[totsy]

did they ask you if you wanted to go basal bolus, its more jabs but i found it so much better