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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
I'm at a loss of what to do any further and I just keep on increasing my ratios with no effect.
I'm currently taking 34 units of Tresiba and a ratio of 1:6 Fiasp. Also on Metformin twice a day and taking around 3-4 correction dosages each day including about 8 units when I wake up to try to offset the dawn phenomenon (I don't eat breakfast).
The Tresiba seems correct as I stay level overnight/when not eating but when I eat the Fiasp seems to do very little for several hours until I just plummet back down again. It does seem to.work.a little better than the original Novarapid did.
The DSN has basically said I'm obviously not bothering to carb count and that I just need to control it better but nothing I do works. They refused a pump previously as said I wouldn't make good use of it since didn't manage well enough already. I was told my libre was getting taken away as I haven't lowered my hba1c whilst having it (is now 9.5) - it was mistakenly renewed for a year by a GP who didn't understand what it was (he asked if he could cancel my needles since I had the libre instead?!) but will be up for review again soon.
DSN has also said it's caused by me being too overweight, which is fair enough but I'm a small size 14 so not unusually enormous?
I'm going to try to get out walking more now the evenings will be light for longer but any more insulin and it just causes hypos a few hours later so not sure what else to do?
I'm currently taking 34 units of Tresiba and a ratio of 1:6 Fiasp. Also on Metformin twice a day and taking around 3-4 correction dosages each day including about 8 units when I wake up to try to offset the dawn phenomenon (I don't eat breakfast).
The Tresiba seems correct as I stay level overnight/when not eating but when I eat the Fiasp seems to do very little for several hours until I just plummet back down again. It does seem to.work.a little better than the original Novarapid did.
The DSN has basically said I'm obviously not bothering to carb count and that I just need to control it better but nothing I do works. They refused a pump previously as said I wouldn't make good use of it since didn't manage well enough already. I was told my libre was getting taken away as I haven't lowered my hba1c whilst having it (is now 9.5) - it was mistakenly renewed for a year by a GP who didn't understand what it was (he asked if he could cancel my needles since I had the libre instead?!) but will be up for review again soon.
DSN has also said it's caused by me being too overweight, which is fair enough but I'm a small size 14 so not unusually enormous?
I'm going to try to get out walking more now the evenings will be light for longer but any more insulin and it just causes hypos a few hours later so not sure what else to do?