Wow, best present ever!
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 )
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.
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.
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.
