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Type 1 I want to give up
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KesLouise
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I nearly always get that if I have a carby supper. My blood sugars start to rise about the time my bolus is wearing off but I'm normally asleep when this is happening. So I welcome the new day with blood sugars in double figures, and of course I want to eat breakfast and have my blood glucose lower aftwards so that's always interesting.
The only way I can stop the midnight rise completely is by eating a low carb supper, like fish with a side salad etc or less than 20g of carbs anyway. Some of us are finding out that our systems don't work in exactly the way the NHS think it does.
Try an omelette and see what happens???
The only way I can stop the midnight rise completely is by eating a low carb supper, like fish with a side salad etc or less than 20g of carbs anyway. Some of us are finding out that our systems don't work in exactly the way the NHS think it does.
Try an omelette and see what happens???
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... Or a "naked" lamb burger.?
@Jed.s . Gotta ask this... Any beer involved? Kind of has that signature...
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Hey Jed.s, You're young with a lot of hormones flying around so you need more insulin than older folks. Hang in there. It does get better. Keep trying things.
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@ KesLouiseHang in there buddy. It’s **** but people keep telling me things will get better - Thankyou, but I’m just over trying to do my best, I want to eat without having to do insulin, this ******* sucks
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Jed.s
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You ain't the first & won't be the last to get lines like this..
It looks like an overnighter? Have you remembered yer basal? Possibly a few optimistic under bolused for late snacks?
This stuff & more can happen... When yer "living the dream."
@Jaylee - I might’ve just eaten too much chocolate and ****, but I was feeling down, and then I got the wrong type of high
It looks like an overnighter? Have you remembered yer basal? Possibly a few optimistic under bolused for late snacks?
This stuff & more can happen... When yer "living the dream."
@Jaylee - I might’ve just eaten too much chocolate and ****, but I was feeling down, and then I got the wrong type of high
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I'm not going to lie, as well controlled as my diabetes is after living with it for nearly 20 years. There's days where I get down, I get the odd day with blood sugars like you, but its about understanding what's causing these and then rectifying it. Remember don't let negativity breed, as that's when it becomes an issue, but missing insulin injections is definitely not going to help.
Anyone who says their control is perfect with no issues or they never worry about it is just being dishonest. But we can either let it get the better of us, or do our best to work with it. Every time I look at what people telling me my life would be, and I couldn't do X,Y,Z, to where I am today, enjoying life to its full and not letting anything stop me (mentally and physically never felt better), I'd never want to give up. However to enjoy life I don't ignore the condition, I accept and manage it best I can.
Anyone who says their control is perfect with no issues or they never worry about it is just being dishonest. But we can either let it get the better of us, or do our best to work with it. Every time I look at what people telling me my life would be, and I couldn't do X,Y,Z, to where I am today, enjoying life to its full and not letting anything stop me (mentally and physically never felt better), I'd never want to give up. However to enjoy life I don't ignore the condition, I accept and manage it best I can.
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Oh, I dunno..?! You have the use of a CGM.
Thinking back to when I was 20, I was getting vauge pastel colour chart shades, peeing on a test strip...
It's always great to see you posting. But, do us a favour? Throw us a "bone" regarding what may have caused these bloopers..
@helensaramay , I got no idea about football. Horse riding? Yeah, you're on the back of another species with its own thought processes. Loose too much concentration holding the reigns, shift your posture in the saddle? & the animal can decide its "own thing." Drift aimlessly across the road, get side tracked by something in a hedge, come to a stop & eat grass...
Occasionally, the odd two stroke engine can stress em out.
Sometimes the horse is just as susceptible to hormonal clockworks just like the rest of us...
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49 years T1 here, still active and healthy. I know I'm lucky to have got away with it, but I spent my entire teenage years high (how high I have no idea as it was pre glucometer, but I sure felt thirsty on occasion).
And even though I now test 50 times a week, I still get highs. On occasion, and I pull them down fast, but being T1 is what it is. And I'm doing better now, maybe one 18 a week, and my endocrinologist is more worried about lows. (Actually, I'm doing really well about hypos at the moment, and I prefer 1 18 a week to 4 hypos a week.)
But everyone is different. Try not to be discouraged by the T2s who can achieve normal blood sugars by going low carb. It's great for them, but they have a different illness. The fact is that there are many T1s on here who live into their 70s, 80s and (90s?) with blood sugars that average significantly above normal.
It's an illness, yes it impacts on your life expectancy. But the technology (even if it's only a glucometer) is there to minimise that impact. My mother was T1 and made it to 78 (in 2012), with the first 30 years pre glucometer. (She was diagnosed at 20). And it wasn't the diabetes that killed her, it was the nicotine.
You don't have to be perfect to live a long and healthy life. Just don't ignore your diabetes, but don't let it rule you. It's one of the few illnesses where the patient has more control than the doctor. When first diagnosed it's scary, particularly if you get inundated by horror stories from Dr Google. The fact is that 100 years ago it was a death sentence, but since then it's been increasingly manageable. Current technology is marvellous, young diabetics are in a very good place. Just don't expect your blood sugar to be in normal range 100% of the time. Maybe in another ten years they'll have the technology to do that, but it isn't there yet. And it doesn't need to be. I've been living with a promise of a cure in ten/twenty years since I was eight years old, and it isn't relevant for me now.
So that graph isn't great, but at least it doesn't include a night hypo. If it repeats, it's probably a lack of basal, but I can do graphs like that just by over indulging in cheese (sigh, I love cheese, but it does fatal things if I have too much at night. Other people cope fine with it).
Aberrant readings are depressing, but the main thing is to work out what caused them.
Good luck.
And even though I now test 50 times a week, I still get highs. On occasion, and I pull them down fast, but being T1 is what it is. And I'm doing better now, maybe one 18 a week, and my endocrinologist is more worried about lows. (Actually, I'm doing really well about hypos at the moment, and I prefer 1 18 a week to 4 hypos a week.)
But everyone is different. Try not to be discouraged by the T2s who can achieve normal blood sugars by going low carb. It's great for them, but they have a different illness. The fact is that there are many T1s on here who live into their 70s, 80s and (90s?) with blood sugars that average significantly above normal.
It's an illness, yes it impacts on your life expectancy. But the technology (even if it's only a glucometer) is there to minimise that impact. My mother was T1 and made it to 78 (in 2012), with the first 30 years pre glucometer. (She was diagnosed at 20). And it wasn't the diabetes that killed her, it was the nicotine.
You don't have to be perfect to live a long and healthy life. Just don't ignore your diabetes, but don't let it rule you. It's one of the few illnesses where the patient has more control than the doctor. When first diagnosed it's scary, particularly if you get inundated by horror stories from Dr Google. The fact is that 100 years ago it was a death sentence, but since then it's been increasingly manageable. Current technology is marvellous, young diabetics are in a very good place. Just don't expect your blood sugar to be in normal range 100% of the time. Maybe in another ten years they'll have the technology to do that, but it isn't there yet. And it doesn't need to be. I've been living with a promise of a cure in ten/twenty years since I was eight years old, and it isn't relevant for me now.
So that graph isn't great, but at least it doesn't include a night hypo. If it repeats, it's probably a lack of basal, but I can do graphs like that just by over indulging in cheese (sigh, I love cheese, but it does fatal things if I have too much at night. Other people cope fine with it).
Aberrant readings are depressing, but the main thing is to work out what caused them.
Good luck.
