Wow, best present ever!When diagnosed, my brother a 35 year veteran turned up on my doorstep with a bunch of flowers and a box of Weetabix. Your new best friend he said.
John are you a young person? The space raiders crisps made me laugh...remind me of my younger days.I've read up on them and they seem ideal. I mentioned it last month but it was before the big announcement with the nhs funding it. Im ringing my nurse up on Thursday for my hba1c results, I'll ask then. My first one since my diagnosis, which was 110.
Well im 43 but im still not ready for the knackers yard yet. Spaces raiders only have 7g of carbs per bag. But the bags are tiny these days.John are you a young person? The space raiders crisps made me laugh...remind me of my younger days.
Well im 43 but im still not ready for the knackers yard yet. Spaces raiders only have 7g of carbs per bag. But the bags are tiny these days.
To be honest bar last Friday's I've only had a couple and I've managed to stop them. And after that the blood sugars been ok, apart from last Friday when I posted this topic.well done great result! Did she quantify 'lots of hypos'?!?
love the space raider crisps (pickled onion my little treat grandkids dont get a look in )For dinner I had 1 and a half ham and cheese sandwich with a different bread than normal. A packet of space raider crisps and a small milky way copy off. Roughly 56g carbs. I took no insulin.
My breakfast is roughly 50g of carbs and I have the same every morning.
I do rough carb counting as i can normally handle 40-50 g of carbs without any novorapid. If I have something a bit heavier 80-100 g carbs I take two units. I have quite an active job so I burn off the sugar quite quickly (sometimes).
I do keep a log of my blood and food, just for future reference to see how i have reacted to certain foods and amounts of insulin.
I think Fridays shenanigans by my Pancreas had worn the little fella out, and on Saturday he decided to have a bit of a rest.
I don't know if Burgen bread is that good for you, but it normally keeps my blood at ok levels. Saying that I eat about 3 loaves of it a week, poss 4.
Cheers John
3 and a half months then, sorry I was half a month out!
pre-diagnosis the pancreas is trying as hard as it can to produce insulin with x number of beta cells down, then along comes some extra injected insulin to ease it's burden, and in fact make the pancreas redundant as you're covering all the carbs off with the injected stuff - this gives it time to repair and recuperate a bit - so it eventually gets back working or at least trying to and coughing and spluttering insulin as and when it can, hence the lows and/or not needing injections to cover some meals.
But there is no way of knowing if and when your pancreas is going to play ball, so unfortunately lots of testing and hoping for the time being - you'll soon notice if and when it completely packs in. I think the honeymoon period is probably the hardest time for a T1D, you're probably still reeling from the diagnosis, and think you've got a handle on it and then wham lots of lows and then even the thought of the possibility that the docs got it wrong.........!
It will get easier, just keep testing and go careful.
I hope someone can can give you the advice you need. Being an adult and dealing with that sort of thing is hard but you make the decision how to counteract the lows/highs yourself. Having to do this for your little lad must be so stressful, but it proves you are good parents and want to help your lad get off to a good start.Hi. This answer to someone else question rings true with what just happened to us today. Any advice or friendly words would be seriously welcome.
Our 21 month old boy was diagnosed 3 weeks ago. Its a roller coaster and to be honest, some days it feels like a living nightmare that we just cannot sustain.
The past week or two he has had a pattern. Fairly mid range most of the day ( between 5 and up to 11) then at night he would go to sleep and by 1am (we test him then) he is in the mid to high teens so we give him an injection.. by morning he's normal. Today I went to work, our little one was with mum. By mid morning he dropped to 3.7 so she gave him a couple of jelly babies and tested 20 mins later. He was still only 4.0 so she gave him 2 more. Soon after he was in the 5's and it was lunch time so My wife did the usual thing of giving him lunch with his usual dose for carbs.. next test he is in the high teens (18). After a correction he was hypo again.. its been like that all day. It's now nearly 8pm and he's in bed but refusing his milk which we have accounted for.. arghhh!!! its so tough with a little one.
Im terrified of hypo's.. he had a seizure a year ago which was terrifying and the thought of that happening again is my worst nightmare (a febrile seizure apparently but now I'm wondering if it was related to diabetes).
Help help help.
Hi. This answer to someone else question rings true with what just happened to us today. Any advice or friendly words would be seriously welcome.
Our 21 month old boy was diagnosed 3 weeks ago. Its a roller coaster and to be honest, some days it feels like a living nightmare that we just cannot sustain.
The past week or two he has had a pattern. Fairly mid range most of the day ( between 5 and up to 11) then at night he would go to sleep and by 1am (we test him then) he is in the mid to high teens so we give him an injection.. by morning he's normal. Today I went to work, our little one was with mum. By mid morning he dropped to 3.7 so she gave him a couple of jelly babies and tested 20 mins later. He was still only 4.0 so she gave him 2 more. Soon after he was in the 5's and it was lunch time so My wife did the usual thing of giving him lunch with his usual dose for carbs.. next test he is in the high teens (18). After a correction he was hypo again.. its been like that all day. It's now nearly 8pm and he's in bed but refusing his milk which we have accounted for.. arghhh!!! its so tough with a little one.
Im terrified of hypo's.. he had a seizure a year ago which was terrifying and the thought of that happening again is my worst nightmare (a febrile seizure apparently but now I'm wondering if it was related to diabetes).
Help help help.
I'm afraid I've been like this for decades and that's without any medication, blood glucose hitting 17 mmolL-1 then very low hypos often below 2.1mmo-1. I therefore avoid carbohydrate so it is difficult for the blood sugar to go high in the first place. It's worth realising that your reaction to hyper/hypoglycemia can depend on the speed and relative change of blood sugar level. For example if you peak at 17mmol then fall to 6mmol in say 20mins then your hypo at 6mmol will feel like a hypo of less than 3.4mmol. Conversely if you have slipped slowly to 2mmol or less you may not have any symptoms or they are atypical, i.e. illogical behaviour rather then sweaty shaky etc. Exercise will also effect this axis. You can have symptoms of hypoglycemia and when you measure you find it's 14mmol hyperglycemia! Again this is when its gone from 4mmol to 14mmol very fast i.e 20mins. The worst foods for this are fast carbohydrate i.e. processed white rice, natural fruit juice, white bread etc.It's been a strange one so far today.
I saw my dsn yesterday and mentioned the strange issue I had with Weetabix and my readings.
When I was first diagnosed Weetabix used to put my blood up to around the 15mmol mark, so I stopped eating it. Anyway I tried some last week with 2 units of novorapid and everything was fine. The next day I did the same and I was near hypoing at 3.2mmol after 2 hrs of eating. So I mentioned this and decided to try the Weetabix without any insulin.
Well 4 weetabix went down my throat and two hours later I was 5.7mmol after being 5.2 just before I ate it. This is where things got interesting. An hour later the hypo started while I was buying a sausage bacon and egg sarnie. I dashed home and I was 3.2mmol and I scoffed my sarnie (which I had planned to take some insulin.) And drank a glass off fresh orange. 20 mins later I was 9.2mmol so rightly or wrongly I gave myself a unit of novo. All morning and into the afternoon I have just ate as I've been hungry all the time with low blood sugar feelings. When i tested Ive been around the 5mmol mark so I just kept eating snacks etc.
I'm only on 3u of Lantus and it's been fine for about a month after it was reduced by a unit. Today has been a strange one, is this the norm? Esp for a honeymooner?
Actually an acute rise or fall in blood glucose can give you seizures particularly if it has gone high followed by a rapid fall. This is known by medical professionals and can happen during an OGTT. And that's without insulin being given. The reason i know this is that it has happened to me in hospital during an OGTT several times. It can also happen with high carb food and exercise.Un medicated diabetes doesn't cause febrile seizures. Nor does undiagnosed type 1 diabetes hang around in a toddler for 12 months, it's an acute onset condition.
It sounds like the correction dose might be a little over generous. And having had one hypo makes you more vulnerable to a repeated hypo that day, so exercise caution if you are correcting highs caused by hypo treatment. I mean really the strict advice is don't correct highs caused by treating a hypo.
That is if you treat the hypo in the strict advice way, which is 15g of carbs wait 10 minutes and check again, if under 4 repeat, if 4 or over top up with complex carbs (milk, a plain biscuit, something like that).
At lunch time you son had got over 4 and had more fast acting carbs, so the hypo was over treated and he was on the isle when he had lunch causing a further rise. As he had just had a hypo it might be you would want to consider reducing the lunch time bolus to take account of the increased vulnerability for more hypos.
I think a lot of parents of kids with type 1 don't bolus until they've eaten, especially if they are fussy eaters a likely to leave half the plate. In an ideal world you would bolus before eating but if you can't explain he has to eat because it's been covered all that's going to do is cause hypos so it doesn't seem worth it.
Sounds like you might want to test his night time basal rate to avoid the 1am correction, it would be worth discussing this with your DSN.
Actually an acute rise or fall in blood glucose can give you seizures particularly if it has gone high followed by a rapid fall. This is known by medical professionals and can happen during an OGTT. And that's without insulin being given. The reason i know this is that it has happened to me in hospital during an OGTT several times. It can also happen with high carb food and exercise.
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