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- 2
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Hello everyone! I'm really sorry if this is too long but I'm really desperate and need some opinions.
I'm 23, I was diagnosed with T1 12 years ago and at first I was handling it very well, I would sometimes get really bad hypos but I never lost consciousness or panicked. I had bad days and good days but I lived well with diabetes to the point where it never bothered me in my everyday life. I used to go days without checking my BGL if I didn't feel any symptoms of a high or a low, and my tests usually came back good. I also have been dealing with bad anxiety since I was 7, and it has been getting really bad with time.
2 years ago, I started having some hypos (I had power walked right after an injection so my insulin sensitivity increased => hypo) while I was on a new panic disorder medication which heightened my symptoms, so I freaked out. A few days later, I had a really bad hypo because I miscalculated my dinner + correction dose, and I completely lost it. I was having a hypo only 30 minutes after eating, with most of the insulin being still active in my body, I kept drinking a lot of juice and soda but was not noticing any change in my BGL so I was certain that I was going to die. I started throwing up and lost consciousness for a little bit and was taken to the ER, but by the time I got there, my BGL started going up, so I was discharged. This experience was very traumatizing and I started suffering from PTSD, feeling like I'm having hypos when I'm not, getting panic attacks whenever I use insulin or walk for a tiny bit, waking up in the middle of night with tachycardia, being literally obsessed with my BGL and whether i'm getting a hypo, because I'm terrified of reliving that horrible low again.
This has caused me to be afraid of overdoing my insulin injections, and now I'm high most of the time. I started counting my carbs and trying to find my ratio but it seems like my diabetes is being very weird and crazy? I think I have figured out my breakfast ratio which is 1:5 but sometimes it fluctuates. For my lunch meal, it is very very rare that I get a good reading after lunch, and even when I do, it's still a little on the high side (180 mg/dl for example), I have tried different ratios but nothing seems to work, would it be normal for my ratio to be less than 1:5? Sometimes I try to monitor it and do a reading every 30 minutes, and I noticed that it starts to go down by the first hour and then it goes back up. I keep trying to correct it during the day but it keeps getting down then getting up. I tried raising my basal by 1 or 2 units, but that's impossible because at night, I have to go to bed with a reading higher than 200 mg/dl to get a good reading in the morning. When I try to go to bed with a good reading at night, I get bad hypos while I'm sleeping, one day it went from 345 mg/dl to 34mg/dl in only a couple of hours when I used 3 units to correct it.
I have cut down carbs almost completely because I cannot deal with this anymore, but even so, I still get highs and lows. I honestly don't know what to do. Do you have any suggestions?
I am planning on seeing a doctor soon, but I'm taking my finals this week so I can't make time. I definitely will after I finish my exams.
TIA!
I'm 23, I was diagnosed with T1 12 years ago and at first I was handling it very well, I would sometimes get really bad hypos but I never lost consciousness or panicked. I had bad days and good days but I lived well with diabetes to the point where it never bothered me in my everyday life. I used to go days without checking my BGL if I didn't feel any symptoms of a high or a low, and my tests usually came back good. I also have been dealing with bad anxiety since I was 7, and it has been getting really bad with time.
2 years ago, I started having some hypos (I had power walked right after an injection so my insulin sensitivity increased => hypo) while I was on a new panic disorder medication which heightened my symptoms, so I freaked out. A few days later, I had a really bad hypo because I miscalculated my dinner + correction dose, and I completely lost it. I was having a hypo only 30 minutes after eating, with most of the insulin being still active in my body, I kept drinking a lot of juice and soda but was not noticing any change in my BGL so I was certain that I was going to die. I started throwing up and lost consciousness for a little bit and was taken to the ER, but by the time I got there, my BGL started going up, so I was discharged. This experience was very traumatizing and I started suffering from PTSD, feeling like I'm having hypos when I'm not, getting panic attacks whenever I use insulin or walk for a tiny bit, waking up in the middle of night with tachycardia, being literally obsessed with my BGL and whether i'm getting a hypo, because I'm terrified of reliving that horrible low again.
This has caused me to be afraid of overdoing my insulin injections, and now I'm high most of the time. I started counting my carbs and trying to find my ratio but it seems like my diabetes is being very weird and crazy? I think I have figured out my breakfast ratio which is 1:5 but sometimes it fluctuates. For my lunch meal, it is very very rare that I get a good reading after lunch, and even when I do, it's still a little on the high side (180 mg/dl for example), I have tried different ratios but nothing seems to work, would it be normal for my ratio to be less than 1:5? Sometimes I try to monitor it and do a reading every 30 minutes, and I noticed that it starts to go down by the first hour and then it goes back up. I keep trying to correct it during the day but it keeps getting down then getting up. I tried raising my basal by 1 or 2 units, but that's impossible because at night, I have to go to bed with a reading higher than 200 mg/dl to get a good reading in the morning. When I try to go to bed with a good reading at night, I get bad hypos while I'm sleeping, one day it went from 345 mg/dl to 34mg/dl in only a couple of hours when I used 3 units to correct it.
I have cut down carbs almost completely because I cannot deal with this anymore, but even so, I still get highs and lows. I honestly don't know what to do. Do you have any suggestions?
I am planning on seeing a doctor soon, but I'm taking my finals this week so I can't make time. I definitely will after I finish my exams.
TIA!