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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
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- Insulin
Good Morning All!
So I checked my blood sugar just on the off chance at work, saw it was 19 and decided a visit to the GP was needed. Variety of other symptoms which I hadn't connected together, but the upshot was I had Type 1 diabetes, mild DKA and was promptly admitted to hospital for 3 days. Happy Valentine's to me...because I wasn't sweet enough before it seems!
I'm happy with managing at the moment now I'm home. The only thing is there is so much advice out there. And not all of it is what I've been told by my diabetes team.
I know it's early days and my nurse and dietician have told me:
1. Eat as I do normally as long as I carb count and give insulin
2. Don't test my blood sugar all the time as it will just worry me
3. Carbs with every meal
So I know some are saying low carb is better as spikes in BS are lower. Is this something they'd start recommending once my diabetes is more established? As I know I've only been managing this for a week total. Or do you have to push for this information?
Similarly, I have checked a lot. But I was checked every hour in hospital for BS so I'm a bit anxious not checking my levels now. And I wanted an idea of what my body did with my meals and what the insulin did too. I would have thought some form of continuous monitoring (in the beginning anyway) would have been an advantage to look at trends etc. Is this something you need to ask for specifically and push for? I am naturally interested anyway and I work in a medically related profession although I'm not a doctor. I want to optimise my health, insulin timings and BS levels as much as possible as soon as possible. Not checking, except before meals and bed, is worrying me.
And one last (and probably daft question)...if I'm hungry but my BS are still a bit high, and I'm talking in the teens, can I still eat my meal? My brain says 'yes, you daftie. Eat as normal' but another bit of me is like 'but your sugars are high, you'll only make your BS higher'.
No doubt I'll be posting a lot more in the future!
Kat xx
So I checked my blood sugar just on the off chance at work, saw it was 19 and decided a visit to the GP was needed. Variety of other symptoms which I hadn't connected together, but the upshot was I had Type 1 diabetes, mild DKA and was promptly admitted to hospital for 3 days. Happy Valentine's to me...because I wasn't sweet enough before it seems!
I'm happy with managing at the moment now I'm home. The only thing is there is so much advice out there. And not all of it is what I've been told by my diabetes team.
I know it's early days and my nurse and dietician have told me:
1. Eat as I do normally as long as I carb count and give insulin
2. Don't test my blood sugar all the time as it will just worry me
3. Carbs with every meal
So I know some are saying low carb is better as spikes in BS are lower. Is this something they'd start recommending once my diabetes is more established? As I know I've only been managing this for a week total. Or do you have to push for this information?
Similarly, I have checked a lot. But I was checked every hour in hospital for BS so I'm a bit anxious not checking my levels now. And I wanted an idea of what my body did with my meals and what the insulin did too. I would have thought some form of continuous monitoring (in the beginning anyway) would have been an advantage to look at trends etc. Is this something you need to ask for specifically and push for? I am naturally interested anyway and I work in a medically related profession although I'm not a doctor. I want to optimise my health, insulin timings and BS levels as much as possible as soon as possible. Not checking, except before meals and bed, is worrying me.
And one last (and probably daft question)...if I'm hungry but my BS are still a bit high, and I'm talking in the teens, can I still eat my meal? My brain says 'yes, you daftie. Eat as normal' but another bit of me is like 'but your sugars are high, you'll only make your BS higher'.
No doubt I'll be posting a lot more in the future!
Kat xx