Dontberudd
Newbie
- Messages
- 4
- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Hi and thank youHi @Dontberudd and welcome to the forums. Can I ask what sort of insulin regime you are on? Given that you are in the UK I'd hope that you might become eligible for a pump? I assume you've got a cgm? Would it help to start treating at a slightly higher level?
I must admit my hypo treatment seems to take longer to act than it used to, but having a pump (last 5 months) does seem to make them easier to handle and that could be a reason to put to your diabetic team if you want one but don't have one.
The other point is that cgms tend to lag behind real life so make it look as though your bg is still low when in fact it's on the way up?
I assume those are hypos when you feel hypo and not possible erroneous ones from your cgm??? (My dexcom has a bad habit of reading low and it's really easy to overtreat a hypo, even with a pump.)
Hopefully some other T1s will have suggestions, but once more, welcome.
You get less hypos on a pump because it suspends insulin delivery when it predicts that you are going to go low.So I have been waiting for a pump and they said I’d have to wait for a few months for it to be issued! But how would that help me with this issue?
But if I am not on metformin 2x a day, the 10:1 ratio doesn’t work and it would be much higherYou get less hypos on a pump because it suspends insulin delivery when it predicts that you are going to go low.
How confident are you that your insulin ratios and basal rates are right? ( To be honest, an insulin ratio of 1 to 10g doesn't sound that insulin resistant to me, that's the starting ratio that they tend to use for new diabetics.) And if your ratios and rates are wrong that makes everything much harder to manage, including hypos.
How about your blood sugar after meals? Are meal carbs being absorbed slowly?
This also happens with my finger prick too sometimesCGMs can make hypos appear to last longer due to the way they predict the interstitial fluid delay.
Therefore, it is ALWAYS recommended to check hypo recovery with a finger prick.
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