come out of honeymoon, feeling a bit down.

It gets easier!

The most useful tip (and you know this really because you said it): stop over-treating stuff, whether highs or lows. Let it work out over a few weeks so you don't get stuck on a rollercoaster.

RuthW said:

It gets easier!

The most useful tip (and you know this really because you said it): stop over-treating stuff, whether highs or lows. Let it work out over a few weeks so you don't get stuck on a rollercoaster.

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I'm learning how valueable this advice is myself. Last week, I overcalculated on my Novolog injection, dropped down to 2.5, ate a bunch of granola bars, then watched my glucose spike over 16 within 30 minutes.

It's hard to avoid going into panic mode especially when you're new to all of this. Last night, my Dexcom woke me up to a 2.6 hypo. I went and drank some orange juice, waited 30 minutes until I was above 4.4, and kept some more orange juice by my bed in case I fell again.

Just wanted to say that I understand what you're going through. My levemir is the easy part, it's learning how and when to administer fast-acting insulin that is taking some time to learn.

Good luck!

Another thing, do you have a CGM yet?

Mine has been incredibly valueable and especially during these early stages after diagnosis.

It's greatly sped up the process of understanding how soon and how much my blood sugar changes throughout the day.

How did you realise you were out of the honeymoon period?

LauraC27 said:

sorry.. what's a CGM? I'm not familiar with some of the terms for things yet! haha

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Continuous Glucose Monitor. I have the Dexcom G5 personally and as mentioned, it's amazing.

If you didn't already know it basically provides glucose readings every 5 minutes and goes directly to your cell phone.

This is when you really need to get good at counting carbs, weighing your food, and not eating anything without injecting for it.

It gets much easier, you just have to have confidence in your actions, and to do that you have to do a bit of homework.

Learn the carbs in your fav meals, work out a couple 'safe' meals and you'll have to stick to eating them over and over again and slowly introduce new foods. Introduce the food or the meal, and learn to bolus for it before introducing the next one. Write everything down in a note book and take book with you everywhere so when you do eat something you can look back to when you last ate it, what you BS was pre-meal, what you ate, what you boluses and then what it was 2 hours post meal, so you can repeat that (or adjust).

When you have hypo you just have to think: Why ? If its an over bolus then you try to estimate by how much and eat that much plus 5-10g more. If you have no idea why your low - maybe you basil rate is too high - then you probably only need 5-10g. Even with the shakes or sweats, 10g or 40g they will pull you out of the low at the same speed, so don't panic and be patient.

I also have a Dexcom lik @TorqPenderloin does (a G4, so it doesn't go to phone) but its very expensive to use, and its readings are 15min behind what your sugars actually are - so many times when i first got it i would go low and would eat while waiting for my dexcom to tell me my sugars are rising but with the lag i would end up over eating by WAY to much.. So it wont really help you anymore then 'feeling' your body, checking your BS, and counting the proper carbs to eat, and then ONLY eating those lol