Cathy Cally
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Just saying hello as I am new to the forum. I have just been diagnosed with type one diabetes after I sustained injury to my pancreas and feel overwhelmed by everything at the moment as I am still finding my feet with it all.
Ask away, and never apologise for asking questions, it's what this forum is for!Thanks for the replies they are appreciated. Please be ready for my questions which are quite a few in number, sorry.
If your background insulin is Levemir, many of us split it into two for morning and evening injection. It provides more flexibility and trial and error will guide you on the split. It seems like your nurse is being too careful. I suggest being a tad more assertive and saying you really don't want to ever go above 25 for example.Hi. I am very new to diabetes type one and at the moment I am on 3 units of rapid acting insulin before meals and 16 units of slow acting insulin at night. What I don’t understand is that during the night my glucose levels become so high the Libre 2 cannot register it and the alarm continuously goes off, so I do a finger prick test shows my glucose to be in the late 20’s going up into the 30’s. During the day it ranges from 18 to 20’s. The Diabetic nurse specialist is slowly increasing my night time dose, tonight I go up to 18 units. But why do my levels become so high during the night.? It’s really worrying me and I am so worried about it that once my alarm goes off I cannot go back to sleep,so am becoming exhausted. Does anyone else have or have had the same problem? I am watching my carb intake very closely and only drink water. Also forgot my A1C is around 13.1 but forgot to ask the nurse what are normal ranges? Thanks Cathy.