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Type 1 I FEEL ABSOLUTELY AWFUL

Jed.s

Jed.s

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
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So last night I did insulin to correct my bloods cause they were 15 I did 4 Inuits because my insulin drops my bloods by two mmol and then later in the night my bloods still haven’t dropped so I do another 3-4 units and then when I wake up in the morning my bloods are still 16.6 and I did all those corrections and drank all the water.. I ******* give up

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Sometimes your BG's are affected by what you ate the night before. A food like pizza, high fat high carb and it will delay absorption and make you wake with high numbers. Sometimes DP Dawn Phenomenon will decide to take off and you wake with higher numbers.

The solve is to correct it when you spot it, try to make a note if you can tell what caused it and just chalk it up to, it happens.
 
First up, look at your basal. Lantus/Levemir only really lasts 16-20 hours, not the full 24. Many users (including myself before I went full cyborg) split the dose morning and night to avoid it running out. Basal is the foundation to your diabetes management - it should keep you flat and steady in the absence of good and exercise. This is a good guide: https://mysugr.com/basal-rate-testing/

We can’t help if you don’t give us more than a graph and a strop in shouty capitals, lovely. Tell us what led up to this high, the food, drink, activity, insulin etc, and we may be able to make some useful suggestions. The T1 hive mind on this forum has decades of experience, and we’re willing to thrash out problems, but we need some info to go on.

In this case, what was dinner the night before? What insulins are you on? Did you sleep well? That can affect morning levels. What time did you get up? Livers always chuck out glucose in the wee hours (dawn phenomenon) and often as soon as we get out of bed (foot on the floor) - the spikes you’re looking at in today’s graph look like both of those are happening. Look at your previous days graphs to see if those rises are happening every day. If you split your Lantus, try taking the night dose at around 2200 - the peak action would coincide with that 3am rise. Take your morning dose plus a couple of units of your fast acting as soon as you wake up, before you get out of bed. That will help with the 9am rise.
 
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