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<blockquote data-quote="Catsymoo" data-source="post: 1772396" data-attributes="member: 45466"><p>Trust me, I am eating plenty of vegetables. I snack on carrots, I made kimchi cauliflower rice for dinner last night with spinach, and mushrooms, and our fridge is full of vegetables, I also make kale smoothies but haven't the last few days. I always include veg in my meals.</p><p></p><p>The thing is about this whole thing is that it's not usual for me and yet I'm not doing anything that I haven't done in the past. I've just woken up at 10 at 3 in the morning. My dinner was under 10g carbs and my blood sugar didn't go below 10 all day despite multiple small correction doses, lots of exercise and a borderline keto diet yesterday.</p><p></p><p>8AM - BG 10.7, 5 units of bolus, ate an avocado and mackerel slice.</p><p></p><p>12PM - BG 11, bolused one unit and left house for walk</p><p></p><p>2PM - BG 12, bolused 6 units and ate some carrots with peanut butter and seafood sticks, left house again to go shopping</p><p></p><p>5 PM - BG 13, bolused 4 units for Kimchi cauliflower rice</p><p></p><p>6PM - 33 units of Lantus</p><p></p><p>8PM, BG up to 15.7, bolused a few more units before bed</p><p></p><p>8:30PM, BG 14.8</p><p></p><p>3:30AM - BG 10.4</p><p></p><p>I almost collapsed in the kitchen last night and went to bed at 8pm, I felt like every ounce of strength was drained from me, I think I overdid it on the walking yesterday, I didn't stop all day. The ''dawn phenomenon'' has never been a thing for me, my Lantus has always kept my sugars under control upon wakings. </p><p></p><p>There were times yesterday that I felt so weak and light headed I thought I was hypo, yet I test and my levels were between 10 and 16 all day. I lost count of how many times I bolused but I've tried to list them here. In the past, if I ate what I ate yesterday, I probably wouldn't need ANY Novorapid. I've done low carb diets and generally speaking if I eat eggs and cauliflower rice I've never had to bolus for them, and if I did, very little. </p><p></p><p>There was a time when I was on steroids that for a week or so I ate a very low carb diet because my sugars were in the high 20s and insulin didn't work well at the time, and even THEN my sugars slowly dropped between meals because of Lantus. Nurse is thinking of swapping me to a super long acting insulin but I can't remember the name, it starts with D and she said people have been very successful on it. I wanted to try splitting my Lantus but I'm not sure it's going to make a difference if my highs don't have a pattern.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Catsymoo, post: 1772396, member: 45466"] Trust me, I am eating plenty of vegetables. I snack on carrots, I made kimchi cauliflower rice for dinner last night with spinach, and mushrooms, and our fridge is full of vegetables, I also make kale smoothies but haven't the last few days. I always include veg in my meals. The thing is about this whole thing is that it's not usual for me and yet I'm not doing anything that I haven't done in the past. I've just woken up at 10 at 3 in the morning. My dinner was under 10g carbs and my blood sugar didn't go below 10 all day despite multiple small correction doses, lots of exercise and a borderline keto diet yesterday. 8AM - BG 10.7, 5 units of bolus, ate an avocado and mackerel slice. 12PM - BG 11, bolused one unit and left house for walk 2PM - BG 12, bolused 6 units and ate some carrots with peanut butter and seafood sticks, left house again to go shopping 5 PM - BG 13, bolused 4 units for Kimchi cauliflower rice 6PM - 33 units of Lantus 8PM, BG up to 15.7, bolused a few more units before bed 8:30PM, BG 14.8 3:30AM - BG 10.4 I almost collapsed in the kitchen last night and went to bed at 8pm, I felt like every ounce of strength was drained from me, I think I overdid it on the walking yesterday, I didn't stop all day. The ''dawn phenomenon'' has never been a thing for me, my Lantus has always kept my sugars under control upon wakings. There were times yesterday that I felt so weak and light headed I thought I was hypo, yet I test and my levels were between 10 and 16 all day. I lost count of how many times I bolused but I've tried to list them here. In the past, if I ate what I ate yesterday, I probably wouldn't need ANY Novorapid. I've done low carb diets and generally speaking if I eat eggs and cauliflower rice I've never had to bolus for them, and if I did, very little. There was a time when I was on steroids that for a week or so I ate a very low carb diet because my sugars were in the high 20s and insulin didn't work well at the time, and even THEN my sugars slowly dropped between meals because of Lantus. Nurse is thinking of swapping me to a super long acting insulin but I can't remember the name, it starts with D and she said people have been very successful on it. I wanted to try splitting my Lantus but I'm not sure it's going to make a difference if my highs don't have a pattern. [/QUOTE]
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