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- Type of diabetes
- Type 1
- Treatment type
- Insulin
Not sure if this is the right place, I'm more seeking advice and reassurance than anything else. I'm new to the forums, but here goes.
I'm recently diagnosed with Type 1 since the 3rd of November, and lately my blood sugar readings have been dropping lower and lower, with sometimes erratic readings.
I met my community diabetic specialist nurse the other day for the first time, and we reviewed my blood sugar readings. She said it could be the start of the honeymoon phase. She told me to lower my basal insulin (lantus) from 10 units to 8. I've been doing this new dosage for about 3 days now.
I'm just really concerned because I've had 2 hypos in the space of 3 days, one was before I met the nurse, I woke up with 3.4mmol/L. I had a another one on the second night of trying my new basal dose, I woke up at 4am with a reading of 3.7mmo/L. Obviously I want to avoid having too many hypos, so if my pancreas has come back to life it's going to give me a lot of trouble...
I'm having trouble finding good reading material online about the honeymoon period and how to "co-pilot" alongside my pancreas, in a way. Naturally I should reduce my insulin intake but I don't want to accidentally inject too little and end up with really high readings, because that's not great either.
Though my numbers are kind of erratic at the moment the past 2 days as I write this I have been under 10mmol/L which I'm happy about. I've been keeping my fast-acting insulin doses the same as I have been for my meals, and that seems to give me relatively good numbers in the day, if not more erratic than a few days ago.
I'm rambling now about my situation so I'll ask some questions now:
Should I contact my nurses more often about my numbers?
Am I actually even in the honeymoon phase? Is that something you can test? Or do you just have to rely on the numbers?
Is there anything I can do to manage my blood sugar numbers while I go through this phase?
I noticed my nurses when they figured out my basal dose they'd go up by several numbers at a time. If I decide to adjust if I stay low too often, should I stay safe and test one unit at a time? Or go down for example from 8 units straight to 6 and so on??
Any general info/tips&tricks to do in the honeymoon phase?
Any advice and/or reassurance would be handy, thank you.
I'm recently diagnosed with Type 1 since the 3rd of November, and lately my blood sugar readings have been dropping lower and lower, with sometimes erratic readings.
I met my community diabetic specialist nurse the other day for the first time, and we reviewed my blood sugar readings. She said it could be the start of the honeymoon phase. She told me to lower my basal insulin (lantus) from 10 units to 8. I've been doing this new dosage for about 3 days now.
I'm just really concerned because I've had 2 hypos in the space of 3 days, one was before I met the nurse, I woke up with 3.4mmol/L. I had a another one on the second night of trying my new basal dose, I woke up at 4am with a reading of 3.7mmo/L. Obviously I want to avoid having too many hypos, so if my pancreas has come back to life it's going to give me a lot of trouble...
I'm having trouble finding good reading material online about the honeymoon period and how to "co-pilot" alongside my pancreas, in a way. Naturally I should reduce my insulin intake but I don't want to accidentally inject too little and end up with really high readings, because that's not great either.
Though my numbers are kind of erratic at the moment the past 2 days as I write this I have been under 10mmol/L which I'm happy about. I've been keeping my fast-acting insulin doses the same as I have been for my meals, and that seems to give me relatively good numbers in the day, if not more erratic than a few days ago.
I'm rambling now about my situation so I'll ask some questions now:
Should I contact my nurses more often about my numbers?
Am I actually even in the honeymoon phase? Is that something you can test? Or do you just have to rely on the numbers?
Is there anything I can do to manage my blood sugar numbers while I go through this phase?
I noticed my nurses when they figured out my basal dose they'd go up by several numbers at a time. If I decide to adjust if I stay low too often, should I stay safe and test one unit at a time? Or go down for example from 8 units straight to 6 and so on??
Any general info/tips&tricks to do in the honeymoon phase?
Any advice and/or reassurance would be handy, thank you.