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Scottish Storm

Scottish Storm

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Cupar, Fife
Type of diabetes
MODY
Hi folks, my name is Bill, I'm now 48 and I was diagnosed with late onset diabetes of the young six years ago. In some ways this was lucky as I'd already been through puberty and had most of the nonsense around drugs and alcohol out of my system.

Plus my son is type 1 so I'd been living with diabetes as a parent for four years.

We've both been blessed with easy management of our conditions (I say blessed ad I've seen the difficulties some people have) and good health.

However over Christmas my need for insulin rose by over half. I carb count but instead of my usual one unit for every ten grams of carbs, I now need to take one and a half to two and I've also had to raise my background from 27 units to 40.

And I'm still not quite stabilized yet! If anyone has had a similar experience I'd love to hear how you got on.

A colleagues hubby went through exactly the same thing a month or so ago but I've not seen her over Christmas to hear if his has settled.

Anyway, sorry about the long initial post, good to find this site and I'll try and contribute where I can.

Bill
 
Hi, Welcome ;)

im afraid i have nothing helpful to offer but im sure someone will
 
I can't provide any specific insight, but many of us have had to increase insulin over Christmas for the obvious extra carbs! Blood sugar can go up during the Winter and also due to illness. Has your weight gone up a bit and are you slightly overweight? This can cause insulin resistance which in turn needs more insulin. Your background units seem a bit high anyway so perhaps there is some lurking insulin resistance; just guessing. If so then reducing the carbs a bit may help?
 
Some more history might help as well. I am also hypothyroid so take thyroxin every day and this can affect my insulin requirement, but only by a unit or two, not by the amount I'm noticing.
I am five foot eight and twelve stone, having lost half a stone over summer by cutting out lunchtime carbs at work and generally eating healthier. (Still got a wee bit more to go)
I'll get back to a high protein diet when I'm back at work on Monday and see how it goes from there


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I've had a look through the Novo Nordisk data sheets and 27 units of Levemir is 0.3 units per kilogram, which is bang in the centre of their recommendations so it isn't high. I took into account my daily insulin use (pre blip) and it was normal as well, do I don't think I've been insulin resistant. I've got my blood sugars settled again but I really want to get to the bottom of this sudden rise in insulin to carb ratio

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Bill, if you've been less active over the festive period this may explain the increase in insulin, hopefully once you return to normality your bg levels will settle down and your insulin usage decrease.

People who use levemir as a basal insulin tend to inject more than people on lantus, I briefly switched over from lantus to levemir a few years back and needed nearly twice as much and still couldn't get my levels under control.
 
Welcome to the forum Bill. Hopefully things will settle down a bit now Xmas is out the way !
Mo
 
Thanks for the welcome guys, you seem a friendly bunch. I'm around a load of car forums but this is the first time I've actually asked anything personal about myself so thanks for your replies

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