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<blockquote data-quote="KK123" data-source="post: 2306280" data-attributes="member: 451727"><p>Hi Haidi, please don't apologise, you are doing a wonderful thing for your brother and that's lovely to see and will help him immensely when he settles down. I think the reason they don't tell a person much on diagnosis is because it's a massive thing to take in and too much information at the start can be overwhelming (though of course they need to balance that with what you NEED to know). After a few months or so, patterns may start to emerge and things may settle down, your brother will know what spikes him, when certain things spike him, he will know how exercise affects him, how feeling under the weather impacts and so on. It does take time though and even then something can come along that you just don't have an answer for. A burst of cortisone/adrenaline can send levels shooting up out of the blue and although you may have some control over bolus (food) insulin, you may not over basal as that kicks in over 24 hours...possibly meeting up at an inopportune moment with your own remaining basal when that kicks in. You see?, very complicated! I would say just continue to monitor, don't jump in too quick to address a higher than you'd like reading because that can send the body into a panic and it can start dumping out glucose because it thinks it's going low. Any change you do make to his insulin regime can also take 3 days or more to kick in. Please ask ANY questions you like. x</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="KK123, post: 2306280, member: 451727"] Hi Haidi, please don't apologise, you are doing a wonderful thing for your brother and that's lovely to see and will help him immensely when he settles down. I think the reason they don't tell a person much on diagnosis is because it's a massive thing to take in and too much information at the start can be overwhelming (though of course they need to balance that with what you NEED to know). After a few months or so, patterns may start to emerge and things may settle down, your brother will know what spikes him, when certain things spike him, he will know how exercise affects him, how feeling under the weather impacts and so on. It does take time though and even then something can come along that you just don't have an answer for. A burst of cortisone/adrenaline can send levels shooting up out of the blue and although you may have some control over bolus (food) insulin, you may not over basal as that kicks in over 24 hours...possibly meeting up at an inopportune moment with your own remaining basal when that kicks in. You see?, very complicated! I would say just continue to monitor, don't jump in too quick to address a higher than you'd like reading because that can send the body into a panic and it can start dumping out glucose because it thinks it's going low. Any change you do make to his insulin regime can also take 3 days or more to kick in. Please ask ANY questions you like. x [/QUOTE]
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