mark4785
Active Member
I recently came across a variation of typical type 1 Diabetes named 'Brittle type 1 Diabetes' which is a diagnosis given to people who have issues controlling their blood sugar levels due to insulin absorption problems, hormonal malfunctions, delayed stomach emptying (gastroperesis) or drug interactions.
I feel I may meet the definition of this form of Diabetes because I have trouble lowering my blood sugar levels using my Novorapid insulin up to 4 hours after waking. After about 4 hours the insulin I've administered to lower the blood sugar level throughout the morning period will take effect all in one go and can cause very low hypoglycemia to occur.
A typical waking day occurs like so with the following b/s levels in mmol:
7:00 am (just woke up): 4.5-5.5
8:00 am (eating breakfast): 4.5-5.5
9:00 am (arrived at college): 7.0
10:00 am (near end of first lesson): 12.0-14.0
11:00 am (home; exercising more): 11.0
12:00 pm: (home): 6.5
1:00 pm (home): 2.6
I never used to have this progressively highering b/s level for approx. 4 hours when I was administering Mixtard 30 insulin around 3 years ago and so I theorised that the Novorapid that I now use is playing some role in the rising blood sugar. I came to this conclusion because I was diagnosed with 'stress induced type 1 diabetes' (official diagnosis) and so adrenaline must play some role in lowered insulin production and utilisation. I felt that Novorapids' function was being inhibited by my high adrenaline levels.
However, since coming across the term brittle diabetes, which seemingly can have many causes, I'm not so sure the insulin in the route cause and feel that even if I reverted back to Mixtard 30 (an insulin that is soon to disappear) I'd still have issues with uncontrollable b/s levels in a morning. I know for sure that my b/s levels are uncontrollable during the morning period because when I first started experiencing the problem of highering b/s levels about 2 years ago, I clearly remember setting my insulin pump to give up to 5.0 units of basal Novorapid insulin per hour via my Insulin pupm and the insulin did not work to lower my b/s levels until the end of the 4 (approx.) hour period. Of course, at the end of the 4 hour period I'd have extreme hypoglycemia that my blood glucose meter could only describe has 'LO'.
So do I have this form of diabetes and is there a solution to the problem it presents?
Thanks,
Mark.
I feel I may meet the definition of this form of Diabetes because I have trouble lowering my blood sugar levels using my Novorapid insulin up to 4 hours after waking. After about 4 hours the insulin I've administered to lower the blood sugar level throughout the morning period will take effect all in one go and can cause very low hypoglycemia to occur.
A typical waking day occurs like so with the following b/s levels in mmol:
7:00 am (just woke up): 4.5-5.5
8:00 am (eating breakfast): 4.5-5.5
9:00 am (arrived at college): 7.0
10:00 am (near end of first lesson): 12.0-14.0
11:00 am (home; exercising more): 11.0
12:00 pm: (home): 6.5
1:00 pm (home): 2.6
I never used to have this progressively highering b/s level for approx. 4 hours when I was administering Mixtard 30 insulin around 3 years ago and so I theorised that the Novorapid that I now use is playing some role in the rising blood sugar. I came to this conclusion because I was diagnosed with 'stress induced type 1 diabetes' (official diagnosis) and so adrenaline must play some role in lowered insulin production and utilisation. I felt that Novorapids' function was being inhibited by my high adrenaline levels.
However, since coming across the term brittle diabetes, which seemingly can have many causes, I'm not so sure the insulin in the route cause and feel that even if I reverted back to Mixtard 30 (an insulin that is soon to disappear) I'd still have issues with uncontrollable b/s levels in a morning. I know for sure that my b/s levels are uncontrollable during the morning period because when I first started experiencing the problem of highering b/s levels about 2 years ago, I clearly remember setting my insulin pump to give up to 5.0 units of basal Novorapid insulin per hour via my Insulin pupm and the insulin did not work to lower my b/s levels until the end of the 4 (approx.) hour period. Of course, at the end of the 4 hour period I'd have extreme hypoglycemia that my blood glucose meter could only describe has 'LO'.
So do I have this form of diabetes and is there a solution to the problem it presents?
Thanks,
Mark.