Hi all,
So l have been type 1 diabetic for 4 years and low carber (no bread pasta pots rice, beans, legumes, or cooked starchy veg) and always had great control. Over the past year my background insulin of 25 has gone up to 60 (yes severely insulin resistant), my health was incredibly bad and l couldnt find a way out and no one could help me. Worst 6 months of my life. In the new year l decided to pay to go private myself (health insurance at work doesnt cover prior existing conditions) and he referred me to a dermatolologist. I have been diagnosed with a rare life threatening form of eczema, have been on steroids for past two weeks (which l hate but ld prefer to take them and live) and just been put on immune suppressants for next 3 months. I have also started seeing a sychiatrist for stress and anxiety (been crying a lot and havent wanted to leave flat at all for a while now). So all this stress/eczema etc has made me extremely insulin resistant. I have been at home for 4 weeks just sleeping, watching tv and reading books, not really left house and not allowed to exercise (any exercise/alcohol my rash all over my face worse- god it was awful).
My questions l have are:
1. I have since introduced carbs back in to help (whether or not they helped l dont know)... but if l have carbs and take novorapid that great over a short period but l believe they make the BS go up over 3 hours, so in 2/3 hours l will have a high BS so should l either just do corrections with Novorapid in a few hours, or if l take an extra unit or two of my background (levemir) my BS wont go up so much. Or is this something for me to work out? ie one size doesnt fit all.
2. Getting my background back down to what it should be (for my weight and height etc should be about 30 apparently).. any advice. I wont start exercising until my doctors say its okay although l can do daily walks at moment and l havent started that yet. I have to be quite careful as their is a chance the rash/eczema will get worse but lm on these tablets for a while so that will help.
Thanks all.
Jo
So l have been type 1 diabetic for 4 years and low carber (no bread pasta pots rice, beans, legumes, or cooked starchy veg) and always had great control. Over the past year my background insulin of 25 has gone up to 60 (yes severely insulin resistant), my health was incredibly bad and l couldnt find a way out and no one could help me. Worst 6 months of my life. In the new year l decided to pay to go private myself (health insurance at work doesnt cover prior existing conditions) and he referred me to a dermatolologist. I have been diagnosed with a rare life threatening form of eczema, have been on steroids for past two weeks (which l hate but ld prefer to take them and live) and just been put on immune suppressants for next 3 months. I have also started seeing a sychiatrist for stress and anxiety (been crying a lot and havent wanted to leave flat at all for a while now). So all this stress/eczema etc has made me extremely insulin resistant. I have been at home for 4 weeks just sleeping, watching tv and reading books, not really left house and not allowed to exercise (any exercise/alcohol my rash all over my face worse- god it was awful).
My questions l have are:
1. I have since introduced carbs back in to help (whether or not they helped l dont know)... but if l have carbs and take novorapid that great over a short period but l believe they make the BS go up over 3 hours, so in 2/3 hours l will have a high BS so should l either just do corrections with Novorapid in a few hours, or if l take an extra unit or two of my background (levemir) my BS wont go up so much. Or is this something for me to work out? ie one size doesnt fit all.
2. Getting my background back down to what it should be (for my weight and height etc should be about 30 apparently).. any advice. I wont start exercising until my doctors say its okay although l can do daily walks at moment and l havent started that yet. I have to be quite careful as their is a chance the rash/eczema will get worse but lm on these tablets for a while so that will help.
Thanks all.
Jo