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Honeymooners!?

Emmotha

Emmotha

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Type of diabetes
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Hello,
Anyone out there still in the Honeymoon period?
Seen a few posts lately from people still in early diagnoses (like me) who's insulin needs are pretty random.

Thought it might help if we share our stories with each other :-)

Or from ppl who went through a Honeymoon phase and can remember any good tips?
 
Hi yeah I'm in the same boat ! Dropped my basal insulin (lantus) from my initial 20 on diagnosis to 7 now. I was dropping all the time but now I'm stable (ish) but running higher with it so battling to keep it down. I think it's fading a bit as I'm having to put more insulin in at mealtimes now and like I say running higher. Never ending battle !
 
Great thread, thanks for starting this one!!
 
Hello PG,
Maybe if it's now too much of a struggle it may be a little too low? 7 isn't much... My carb ratio is very low - 1 unit to 20 carbs, and I'm still on 10. The nurse said if ur bed time reading is the same as ur morning reading that's about correct. What are ur bedtime and night time readings?

I think we need to expect that we'll have to do a of more tweaking in the bear future.
 
It's been just over 5 months for me but it seems like years... I yearn for the days of eating a cookie without a second thought or looking at the dietary info!! Haha
 
Im only on 6units of Lantus but a1:10carb ratio .... Shows how different we all are x
 
Well that's the thing I am generally managing to go to bed and wake up within 10% of what I was when I went to bed. I also generally read the same at dinner as u did before breakfast and so on. The problem I've got is I seem to be struggling on an evening to keep bloods down so I wake up between 7-8 and then the day starts badly. Gonna try a no carb tea next week and see how I get on. Are you using the same ratio for each meal time ?
 
Ohh I learned about this last week on my DAFNE course.
In some people the basal insulin doesn't last a full 24 hours... So you may find you need a little more bolus in the evening.
I generally need less insulin for breakfast than for evening, but I'm pretty random. I used to be 1:10 now I'm 1:20 ish, possibly because I'm a bit healthier now it's so strange.
 
@Lottie89 I know what you mean about the cookies etc. I'm coming up for 5 months too and I've learned so much. I still sometimes "forget" and go for a biscuit anyway. I almost hope to go low so I can snack, which is totally not the way forward lol.
 
Hahaha I took some really nice biscuits to netball the other night just incase I went low so that I could snack in style!! It's the little pleasures in life that get you through!
 
Yeah I'm convinced my background insulin wears off on an evening. I'm 1:20 in the day and 1:10 at night. I asked the nurse about splitting my basal dose but she seemed dead against it for whatever reason.
 
I have.been type 1 nearly 2 years now and my first year I managed to keep the honeymoon going for nearly a year was told because I was doing a lot of cycling and also watching what I was eating and keeping my weight down I was keeping the honeymoon going was at a point was taking nearly no insulin
Then it just started to go up and up then to a point just need to look at food and it goes up and insulin now on a ratio of 1:10 and split background insulin and going on a pump soon.
SO ENJOY THIS TIME AS IT DOES NOT LAST
 
Tomorrow will be 4 months since I am with no insuline, and I was diagnosed in May (my honeymoon period started 3 weeks after). It's really good because you don't have to always think about how much insuline you need, and you don't have to shot yourself. My doc said at the beginning that he doesn't believe that my honeymoon period will be long, so I am trying to enjoy in every moment.

And also I did my HbA1C last week, and it improved from 14,6 to 6,1 % !
 
@PG1759 maybe ur nurse wants to keep you on the same sort of regimen for a while. Maybe you could try low carbs for ur evening meal to give better control?

That's a good result @amar1921!

My hba1c result was 139 mmol / 14.2 at diagnosis in June, now it's 39 / 5.7 which they say is too low because I have a few hypos. That's because my insulin needs are changing all the time
 
Hi Robert, how much basal are you taking now just out of interest ?
 
I am on levimer I take 8 at night and 4 in the morning about ten o'clock as I was running out after 7 at night and quick acting I am on novorapid on a. Average day I take about 20 to 25 units but as I said going on to a pump soon so that should change everything
 
Also another thing a found when I was diagnosed they told me to take my insulin at set times 3times a day
That was no use to me as I did not eat at these times and as you no you inject you have to eat to stop going hypo
Best thing I did was the DAFNE course but had to wait a year before I got on it
 
Heading towards 18 months in for me, and I'd definitely say I'm still in a honeymoon period. Working on levmir 3.5U AM, 4.5U PM, lowish carbs at about 100g/day and a reaio or 1:15, so normally around 4-6U bolus a day.

There is no defined length of a honeymoon as far as I'm concerned, with one of the DSNs at Addenbrookes telling me of another distance runner who's still in honeymoon and on low doses about 4 years in. She attributes it in both his and my cases to the exercise.
 
Had 80g carb dinner, bs 6.7 before dinner. 3 units novarapid and 2 hours later 3.7 another hypo
 
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