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<blockquote data-quote="Trixy83" data-source="post: 781550" data-attributes="member: 162941"><p>Hi all, I'm 31 and was diagnosed as type 1 on 20th January. I have spent the last 5 weeks fighting my blood/sugar to try and get it down into single figures. A battle I'm losing!! Part of the issue is that I also have an overactive thyroid so apparently that is messing with my metabolism and affecting how I respond to insulin. My diabetc nurse has been fab, but I feel like I'm way behind where I should be. We haven't looked at carb counting, regulating dose etc. At the moment I take 14 units of levemir morning and night and with meals I take novorapid, a standard of 6 units and add 1 unit for every 3 mmol over 7. I just don't feel like it's working. Does this seem like the average dose? Would it be harmful to add a unit or 2 more? The last couple of days my blood sugar has been around the 13 mark. I'm not seeing the dietician for another 2 weeks so I'm unsure regarding what I should be eating, when I should be eating, can I still snack! I'm determind not to let this rule my life and I've been trying to carry on as normal, but I also know I need to somehow get my blood sugar level down and stable, so any tips, advice, anything at all you can say that would help would be amazing!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trixy83, post: 781550, member: 162941"] Hi all, I'm 31 and was diagnosed as type 1 on 20th January. I have spent the last 5 weeks fighting my blood/sugar to try and get it down into single figures. A battle I'm losing!! Part of the issue is that I also have an overactive thyroid so apparently that is messing with my metabolism and affecting how I respond to insulin. My diabetc nurse has been fab, but I feel like I'm way behind where I should be. We haven't looked at carb counting, regulating dose etc. At the moment I take 14 units of levemir morning and night and with meals I take novorapid, a standard of 6 units and add 1 unit for every 3 mmol over 7. I just don't feel like it's working. Does this seem like the average dose? Would it be harmful to add a unit or 2 more? The last couple of days my blood sugar has been around the 13 mark. I'm not seeing the dietician for another 2 weeks so I'm unsure regarding what I should be eating, when I should be eating, can I still snack! I'm determind not to let this rule my life and I've been trying to carry on as normal, but I also know I need to somehow get my blood sugar level down and stable, so any tips, advice, anything at all you can say that would help would be amazing! [/QUOTE]
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