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hollyslot

hollyslot

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Location
London, United Kingdom
Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
i don't know whats wrong with me, i feel like my insulin requirements have just gone way down so quickly and i am going low 3 times a day and i feel physically and mentally terrible. im so scared of what my doctor will say. can anyone else relate? like to having insulin requirements suddenly go down?
sorry for the desperate sounding post!
 
Panic not ! :)
Insulin requirements can change all of the time, either up or down, and is usually shows a need for basal adjustment and/ or ratio changes of bolus. It can also be due to changes in your lifestyle, food, hormones, the wind changing direction ...:rolleyes:

How long have you been diagnosed, and what are your blood glucose readings and insulin doses, both basal and bolus ? Bolus ratios info would be good information, plus what you are eating .

Your doctor would not necessarily disapprove , type 1, diabetes is an ever changing condition :rolleyes:

Signy
 
You have my sympathy, my husband had a bad hypo a few weeks ago due to a massive change in his work and he ended up in hospital and we are both terrified to go to the hospital :-( they dont listen
 
Heathenlass said:
Panic not ! :)
Insulin requirements can change all of the time, either up or down, and is usually shows a need for basal adjustment and/ or ratio changes of bolus. It can also be due to changes in your lifestyle, food, hormones, the wind changing direction ...:rolleyes:

How long have you been diagnosed, and what are your blood glucose readings and insulin doses, both basal and bolus ? Bolus ratios info would be good information, plus what you are eating .

Your doctor would not necessarily disapprove , type 1, diabetes is an ever changing condition :rolleyes:

Signy
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thanks, i am going to change my basal tomorrow as it must be too high. i have been diagnosed for 15 years (i am 19 now) i take 11 units of levemir in the morning and 5 at night and my insulin to carb ratio i just lowered from 1 u novorapid to 12g carb to 1 u per 15g carb. thanks for your reply xx
 
hollyslot said:
wow i really hope he is ok now! best wishes to both of you!
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He is getting there, the change in his work routine is going to take some adjustment with his insulin but he had a phone call from a dr at the diabetic clinic who was very unhelpful and wouldnt listen to what he was saying and jumped to conclusions which is why we are understandably nervous about attending hospital
 
Hi hollyslot
sorry i am a bit late to reply to your posto_O
as the other people have replied -- it is not your fault your insulin needs have changed so fear not your doctor.
noblehead's advice on re examining your basal requirements is the best place to start.

and as heathenlass said don't panic...............:)

do keep us posted on how you get on.
 
Hi Holly, not going to give advice on what to do, everyone's covered that, but don't panic my love, one thing I've learnt over the years as well is don't fear any doctor, nurse etc, they are not God and we are not perfect :) xx
 
Bad hypos are frightening. Actually I'm far more wary of them now after what I went through at the beginning of February. What happened was that I was eating some Delissio pizza throughout the night that I was watching basketball and I thought that my blood glucose was going to go through the roof, so I took a large amount of Humalog Mix insulin - a mix of fast and slow acting insulin which really hadn't done all that well for me in timely stabilizing sugars, (stopped using that for NovoRapid and Lantus) all to balance everything out in what turned out to be an overdose. I was so tired that night and I wanted to stay up to see how it would work but I couldn't and knocked out.

What happened next was one of the most downright frightening moments in my life, both to hear and experience. My blood glucose dropped so low (1.1 was the number) that I couldn't wake up out of my sleep according to one of my relatives, who came into my room and claimed I was unresponsive but said I fidgeted here and there. My whole family thought I was going to die at this time when they got the news and I would've if no one came in to see me slipping into a diabetic coma. Luckily after a Glucagon shot from 911 paramedics, a rush to the hospital and family support, I woke up. Felt like I was drugged six ways to Sunday but I recovered. So moral of the story: Don't take low glucose lightly at all. I'm just as afraid of them as you are when I get them. I hope your situation gets better.
 
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Dear Hollyslot, sometimes the insulin requirement just goes down. Mines gone down in the last three weeks - I know nothing for sure but am wondering whether now that my body's finally got low enough BG I maybe just don't need so much. God knows. But these things just do change. Take your basal down, test and check, and be glad! Less is better!!

Good luck.
 
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