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Shady1998

Member
Messages
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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
Hello everyone. I am a type 1 diabetic. For around 2 days I have been dealing with the following problem: I wake up in the morning and take my insulin (Injections) and then I eat something. I am fine for around 20 mins and then suddenly I feel like I am hungry as hell and then I start eating A LOT LOT OF STUFF and the hunger JUST DOES NOT GO AWAY!!!!!!!! And now I am feeling kind of a tickling feeling in my arms and legs. ANY HELP PLEASE? Feeling weak too. Help!
 
Do you check your bg levels when these symptoms come on?
 
Yes as Noblehead suggests, you should check yr bg levels when this happens. You may have injected too much and have low bg. I get hungry when I'm having a hypo.
 
I did not check my BG levels. But do you really think that I injecting too much is a problem? Because I have been injecting the same dose for a long long time now and never had problems before.
 
Shady1998 said:
I did not check my BG levels. But do you really think that I injecting too much is a problem? Because I have been injecting the same dose for a long long time now and never had problems before.
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How would you expect anyone on the forum to know when you don't know yourself?
Simple logic suggests you test and see what's going on.
 
Shady1998 said:
Because I have been injecting the same dose for a long long time now and never had problems before.
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Hi and welcome to being a Type 1 Diabetic.

The fact is, our insulin requirements change over time. From year to year, season to season and from day to day. For all kinds of reasons. Pick twenty random threads on this forum and you will find twenty different reasons. This is why it's important that you keep testing your blood glucose and keep thinking about what's going on in your body. "Auto pilot" is not an option, unfortunately.
 
OK....so what I did was....inject insulin last night at around 7PM. Same stuff happened. Getting extreme weakness and weird hunger feeling. Went to sleep after eating. Woke up in the morning....same feeling but a little less.....so as I have been taking insulin in the morning ever since I was first diagnosed with Diabetes....I decided to skip the insulin today. So I skipped it and went to college. The weird feelings gone. No frequent urination. No hunger. No weakness and nothing else. I just had this weird feeling for a little while but then I ate some almonds and drank water and it stopped. Spent the entire day at college perfectly. Came home now at 2PM (I went to college at 7AM) and took a small dose of insulin. Now I can feel the same weakness kinda feeling but much less than yesterday. Don't know what is happening.
 
Hiya - what are your blood glucose readings throughout the day ?
 

@Shady1998 What were your readings when you tested yesterday? If you can do frequent tests and record what you've eaten, etc, it might give you a clue as to what's causing this. As others have said, one of the first things to do when you're diabetic and feel not quite right, is to test your blood sugar (even if you've done a test quite recently).
 
What types of insulin are you taking and what times of day, what dose sizes?
 
Your profile says you're on mixed insulin. You could speak to your doctor about a basal/bolus regime where you adjust your insulin according to what you eat. It gives more flexibility and might be worth trying if your doctor thinks it would be ok for you.
 
No mention of testing anywhere, so did you test and if so what were the results?
Also as you are on mixed insulin why are you injecting in the middle of the day?
It's meant to be injected 30 mins before breakfast and 30 mins before your evening meal.
 
@Shady1998 Are you testing? If you aren't then all the blind advice in the world isn't going to help you, especially when you are on mixed insulin. Please test and tell us what you are finding.
 
Hi. First T1s are normally on Basal/Bolus with carb-counting not mixed insulin so ask your GP about changing over to have much better control. It sounds like you are not getting very good support from the GP and perhaps not following some advice that's been given. You must test frequently if having poor control but you really should change to Basal/Bolus and then get that balanced.
 
Tell your GP to check the new Aug 2015 NICE guidelines for T1. All T1s should be advised to be on basal-bolus unless there's a good reason.
 
You must test no one can advise you if you do not know if you are hypo or hyper. Please give yourself and us some guidance. Good luck.
 
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