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hale710

hale710

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Type of diabetes
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I took my insulin at 6pm with my dinner. BG was 4 at the time so I knocked a half unit off the dose to compensate.

Off to bed at 11.15, BG 12.6..... Thought I'd grossly miscalculated dinner so took 1u correction. I'm not a fan of corrections at bedtime so set my alarm for now (2am) and BG is 14.9. I know the insulin will still be working for another few hours, but should I now have seen a reduction by now?
 
Oh dear, yes I usually have a reduction on the 2 hour mark if my correction has worked. Personally, for me I also find if I'm over 12, my correction ratios are more than they would be if under 12. Hope you managed some good sleep and not too tired today.

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Bumping my own post in the hope more people will be awake now than there was at 2am lol
 
Haha bump not need!

So it was 15 at 4am so I was beginning to panic a little. I left it and went back to sleep...... It's now 6.7?!?!?

**** you honeymoon period!
 
wow, thats a big drop without correction. Definatley **** honeymoon period lol. long are those days for me, used to drive me nuts. What do think hale about honeymoon period, good that still producing insulin or bad that makes things tricky?

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Will in 8 months I've never had anything like this. To be honest I feel like a bit of a diabetic fraud haha I've had an easy honeymoon and it's lasting a fair while. I've heard lots of horror stories though.

I've revisited my carb content at dinner and I definitely calculated it right. I guess my pancreas just wasn't going to cooperate at all last night so I would only have had my injected insulin working which was basically a negligible amount lol

I was really surprised to see a rise between 11pm and 4am though even with a correction. Experience tells me 1u should drop me 5, not raise me 3 haha I kept washing my hands and retesting because I couldn't believe it haha
 
We all have times like this when your levels just don't behave the way you expect. Could be the end of the honeymoon period.

I've been doing a bit of research around random highs/lows. Apparently, there's a 20% error in the amounts of carbs on food labels, a 20% error in the amount of carbs a diabetic estimates to be in a meal, a 15% error in the reading you get from your BG meter and a 30% error in the amount of injected insulin that enters the bloodstream. So there's a potential of 85% error every time you have a meal. If all, or some of those things go wrong then you get random, confusing readings.

I know you're pretty good with your approach to your diabetes, but for the benefit of others you can reduce these errors by: changing your needle and injection site for each injection, wash your hands before each test, change your lancet before each test, choose an accurate meter rather than one with lots of functionality (I've got the MyLife Pura, supposedly one of the most accurate) and reduce your carb portions.
 
Wow I didn't realise there was so much error possible! No wonder it went haywire haha

Ok DAFNE last week I met some people who would use their needle for a week or more. It made me feel a little sick at the thought! One woman said her pen wasn't working, turns out her week old needle was blocked!
 
I've been diagnosed for 7 months too and I think my honeymoon period is coming to an end. After learning to manage not going too low now I am struggling to keep levels down. It's soooo frustrating!
I'm never usually in double figures but this last week I've been regularly getting levels in the low teens. I'm gradually increasing my insulin as don't want to jump up in dosage in one go.
Hope you get things sorted!


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I forgot to add I also find it sometimes ( although not always) seems to take longer for my insulin to kick in and get large drops 4-5 hours after taking it. Weird.
Trying to eat less carbs to see if that works out.


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I'm not a fan of the low carb idea. My current diet is 100-150g a day and I find that has worked so far and I know I can sustain it.

It could be the honeymoon ending, but I've been in the 6s today so far so I don't think so. Most likely just a mixture of human error and my pancreas playing games!
 
hale710 said:
Ok DAFNE last week I met some people who would use their needle for a week or more. It made me feel a little sick at the thought! One woman said her pen wasn't working, turns out her week old needle was blocked!
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These pictures show why using a needle more than once isn't advisable:

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Hi Hale 710 hope your sugars are behaving themselves better as today wears on. Your post is very coincidental because from Friday evening until this morning I have been having really unexplained erratic readings. Lots of double figures then down to the 5s.Unusual for me. I've calculated my carbs in my meals correctly, although the margin of error is quite worrying. I, like you have been getting along really well on 100-150grams a day. Problem is I then get stressed when my levels get high for no apparent reason and then of course the stress starts to keep or raise my levels. Stupid, stupid condition. Hope rest of your days goes well
 
bloomin opposite for me, into town yesterday to do the weekend trot round the market and waitrose, surprise hypo out of nowhere.

Now a high insulin sensitivity I can live with, but the random extra spurts of pancreatic activity are a pain in the neck.
 
Hi Hale!

I often get random readings, especially overnight. Usually it means one of a few things e.g I couldn't be bothered to wash my hands before testing in the early hours and I'm paying the price for that half a Clementine I ate before bed; or I ate later than usual and the BG was still rising when I went to bed; or, most likely, my period is about to start and my body has decided insulin resistance is the way to protect me :roll: Anyway, don't assume it's significant unless it keeps happening!

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Hey Hale.

I'm recently a DAFNE graduate too. I've found this happening to me recently but I narrowed it down to my lack of activity due to illness. My ratios have changed also just in the morning, I'm at a 0.5 ratio but now at at 1:1. Funny the stories you hear from others on DAFNE, we had this one bloke that had been diabetic for 7 years and never checked for ketones before. Do you reckon you could have a minor infection/stress etc?


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