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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Gemmablower" data-source="post: 830089" data-attributes="member: 162868">It's so tricky isn't it, I'm no expert but that seems like a huge ratio change if it was done straight away. 0.5 unit and 40g to then go to 25:1. I would talk to the nurse again tell her about the hypo and might just need tweaking. Dealing with such small doses and dramatic effects is tricky to say the least. Yes Zara gets ratty to and I can usually tell cuz she wees a lot and sweats when hyper possibly the ketones yes if she has had a bad day of being low teens for over 4hours and got low amounts of keytones because of it but sometimes she just feels rubbish if she's over 9mmol. Yes she was extremely hungry after diagnosis but my sister in law coinsidently is an endocrinologist so she stayed with us for a few days and taught me how to carb count straight away and this gave me the flexibility of allowing her to eat to her appetite at the time, apparently she said in order to restore fat and glycogen she would consume something like an extra 3000 calories over a few weeks and bloat out which is an umbelievale amount! So I went with it. The hungry stage was over after about a month and everything settled down then. It's a lot easier dealing with hunger and snacks now if that's any consolation that bit does get easier. Fingers crossed we can both get it under controll again soon! I'm sure we will we are doing all the right things. Xx</blockquote>

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