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Message: <blockquote data-quote="EllieM" data-source="post: 2517009" data-attributes="member: 372717">Welcome to the forums [USER=555857]@Pam*[/USER]You've unfortunately been thrown in at the deep end, as most T1s (who don't produce insulin but still have an otherwise working pancreas) have a bit of residual insulin production left when first diagnosed, and so have a bit of help from their body when first starting out.An issue is that people's insulin needs vary wildly, and so your team will be starting you on a low dose so as to avoid severe hypos.  Also, though traditional T1s don't produce insulin, they do produce glucagon when their blood sugar goes low, and this signals the liver to pump out stored sugar to reduce the severity of the hypo.  So you don't have that little bit of help from your pancreas to smooth things out at the bg low end.You're also still presumably recovering from the op, and stress and illness do weird things to blood sugars, so I am not surprised yours are all over the place. The phrase "this is a marathon not a sprint" gets thrown around a lot to new diabetics, and I will add it too.  Are you getting hypo symptoms when your blood sugar goes down to 3?  After 52 years of T1 I still (luckily only sometimes) get graphs like that, it's easy to overcorrect a hypo and then shoot up.  You should find it much easier once your team have helped you work out how much insulin you actually need (which will take time.)It's really good that your team have you on a libre.Sending you virtual hugs from New Zealand.</blockquote>

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