Lilllaura87
Well-Known Member
Hello, I'm Laura have been type 1 diabetic for 13 years (24 now) I've never had much of a problem controlling my diabetes until 3 weeks ago it all went stupidly wrong... I ended up in hospital with ketones 5.2 and bloods @ 28.0 - To wrap this up I pretty much nearly died ( due to my lack of knowledge of ketones)
Anyway, on a brighter note... I'm out now, but have lost all confidence in controlling my diabetes and am testing my blood sugars around 20 times a day, mainly because I NEVER want to be in that state again.
Upon coming out of hospital I went to see my gp as I was having the occasional hypo at night, (3 months ago I changed from lantus to levimer due to the apparent 'cancer risk' with lantus) he suggested instead of doing my usual 24units at night, splitting the dose over 12 hours instead of 24hours. I was told to inject 11 units of levimer @ 8am and 11unjts @ 6pm.
When I did my first injection of 11units @ 6pm I thought all my problems would be solved!
How wrong was I.... I woke up the next morning @ 7am to find my blood sugars were 19.6.. For me this was unusually high! As you can imagine I reached for my ketone sticks and tested away.. 0.2. Phew!
I booked in with my gp for an appointment a hour later, by the time i had got to him my blood was reading 23 and my ketones 0.9!! As you can imagine PANIC set in as brought back memories of what happened 3 weeks ago, and under no circumstances want to end up In that state again! he advised me to immediately take my fast acting insulin and eat something, 3 hours later my blood went back to Normal BUT THEN didn't stop coming down, I then had to inject fast acting again and eat, then again another 5 hours later. Again took my levimer @ 6pm thinking this little blip had passed and my body was just getting used to the new regime. But again I woke up the next morning to find my blood sugars were 18.0! I have now realised that the levimer was actually not working at all let alone the new doses giving me better control!
Anyway gp was quite impressed I diagnosed the problem myself (well what else can I do with my time! I've been off work since hospital!) He has now changed me to Humulin, still split doses but now of 14units every 12 hours. This was yesterday, i did Humulin @ 6pm, blood sugars were 5.2 @ 11:15pm (was quite happy with this!) then had a major hypo @ 12:45 (1.9) eat qui a bit if sugary stuff as i just wanted to get rid of the horrible feeling of being low! this morning I woke up with blood sugars @ 16.0 so did the usual.. Inject fast acting.. Eat breakfast @5am may I add! By 11am my bloods were coming down to normal again and not stopping. So yet again injected fast acting and ate, at 2:30pm I had another low of 2.4.. Had another dinner at this point as didn't want to stuff my face with jelly babies again! Then by 7:30 needed to do fast acting again.
WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON!!??!?
is my body rejecting the long acting insulin?
Am I being a mong and doing something majorly wrong?
Sorry about the rant and bloody life story but I have not had the experience of talking to anyone my age group wi diabetes!
Anyway, on a brighter note... I'm out now, but have lost all confidence in controlling my diabetes and am testing my blood sugars around 20 times a day, mainly because I NEVER want to be in that state again.
Upon coming out of hospital I went to see my gp as I was having the occasional hypo at night, (3 months ago I changed from lantus to levimer due to the apparent 'cancer risk' with lantus) he suggested instead of doing my usual 24units at night, splitting the dose over 12 hours instead of 24hours. I was told to inject 11 units of levimer @ 8am and 11unjts @ 6pm.
When I did my first injection of 11units @ 6pm I thought all my problems would be solved!
How wrong was I.... I woke up the next morning @ 7am to find my blood sugars were 19.6.. For me this was unusually high! As you can imagine I reached for my ketone sticks and tested away.. 0.2. Phew!
I booked in with my gp for an appointment a hour later, by the time i had got to him my blood was reading 23 and my ketones 0.9!! As you can imagine PANIC set in as brought back memories of what happened 3 weeks ago, and under no circumstances want to end up In that state again! he advised me to immediately take my fast acting insulin and eat something, 3 hours later my blood went back to Normal BUT THEN didn't stop coming down, I then had to inject fast acting again and eat, then again another 5 hours later. Again took my levimer @ 6pm thinking this little blip had passed and my body was just getting used to the new regime. But again I woke up the next morning to find my blood sugars were 18.0! I have now realised that the levimer was actually not working at all let alone the new doses giving me better control!
Anyway gp was quite impressed I diagnosed the problem myself (well what else can I do with my time! I've been off work since hospital!) He has now changed me to Humulin, still split doses but now of 14units every 12 hours. This was yesterday, i did Humulin @ 6pm, blood sugars were 5.2 @ 11:15pm (was quite happy with this!) then had a major hypo @ 12:45 (1.9) eat qui a bit if sugary stuff as i just wanted to get rid of the horrible feeling of being low! this morning I woke up with blood sugars @ 16.0 so did the usual.. Inject fast acting.. Eat breakfast @5am may I add! By 11am my bloods were coming down to normal again and not stopping. So yet again injected fast acting and ate, at 2:30pm I had another low of 2.4.. Had another dinner at this point as didn't want to stuff my face with jelly babies again! Then by 7:30 needed to do fast acting again.
WHAT THE HECK IS GOING ON!!??!?
is my body rejecting the long acting insulin?
Am I being a mong and doing something majorly wrong?
Sorry about the rant and bloody life story but I have not had the experience of talking to anyone my age group wi diabetes!
