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hypo at the same time with out insulin?

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nadin

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i have a problem that my doctor can t help me with.
I eat around 12-13uur and have often a hypo around 14-15 hours. though I'm not always use insulin. so I changed my meal but it did not help I'm not usually activ type1 diabetes have been 25jaar.

my doctor believed that I vomit. The problem is I do not. I'm sitting at home or at work knowing that at that time I always go get a hypo.

Please help. I can not believe I'm the only one with this problem.

some info
-(yes my insulin is reduced. that was the only thing my doctor did)
-(I have type 1 diabetes 25year)
-(I am 3 years depresief)

maybe you can help me or one of your doctors.
 
Re: hipo at the same time with out insuline?

You mentioned that your insulin is "reduced". Could you be a little bit more specific?

Your insulin dose depends on a large number of factors and it is virtually impossible to calculate the dose from scratch; instead one starts with a rough guess (e.g. 10 units of Lantus initially) and adjusts that dose depending on whether relevant blood measurements are high, in range or low. Your insulin dose will only work for you and may change with time, so the information that your insulin dose is "reduced" is not very helpful.

Well, two likely possibilities are that your basal insulin is too high or some kind of reactive hypoglycaemia. You should try skipping a meal and monitoring the effect on your blood sugar; if it drops then you need to change your basal insulin dose i.e. reduce insulin dose further. Since you mentioned that your insulin dose is "reduced" I'm wondering why that wasn't done
 
Re: hipo at the same time with out insuline?

Hello Nadin,
First of all, no-one on this forum is a doctor , just other people with diabetes. We can give some ideas but we aren't medically qualified and can't diagnose.
As the previous answer says. Your hypos may have something to be with the timing and/or the amount of insulin .What you can do about this very much depends on the type or types of insulin you are using. What types of insulin are you using and when do you take them?
The thing that also occurs to me is that it might have something to do with speed in which your food moves through your stomach resulting in the insulin working before the food is digested. This could be because of the type of meal you are eating, high fibre, low glycaemic and high fat meals may take longer to digest.
Some people with long term diabetes develop a problem in that the nerves in the stomach don't work as well, causing a delay in stomach emptying.This problem occurs in half of all long standing diabetics, some severely, others just slightly. Your doctor is perhaps considering this as vomitting is one of the more severe symptoms. You aren't vomitting but do you feel perhaps uncomfortably full and bloated after eating ?.
 
Re: hipo at the same time with out insuline?

hello thank you for your response to my questions.
my insulin has gone from 14 to 2. use NovoRapid (and LANTUS).
was 2weeks in the diabetic department ate their food and did not participate in sports.
and it happens there too. It was there that they said it could not be otherwise than vomit. (ate potatoes, fruits, vegetables, meat, rice, etc).

I'm two days into their neighborhood where they had seen and heard me
to prove that I did not vomit. and their answer was inject 2 and they have never seen anything like that. nothing they could do for me because they did not know the cause.

I hope I have answered your questions
 
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