No Insulin and a good reading?

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Maple

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I was diagnosed as T1 around 9 months ago and am on a basal/bolus regime (20 u of Lantus and a 1:10 of humalog). Well... perhaps because it was Monday but I forgot my insulin at home today (first time I've ever done that!) - to make matters worse, my BG tester gave up the ghost this morning. So, I went to the pharmacy, bought a new one and checked my blood when I got home with a bit of trepidation thinking it was going to be rather high having not used insulin all day.

To my surprise... it was 5.1. Is that 'normal'? I know the 5.1 is before a meal but to get that without insulin?
 
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I had a bacon sadwhich for breakfast (bit of a treat, don't normally...) some fruit, unsalted nuts, a couple of baby bells and chicken tika wrap bought off the sandwhich lady lunch (forgot my normal lunch with my insulin!)
 
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Could this be attributed to the Honeymoon Period often experienced by T1's after starting insulin treatment?
 
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Sid Bonkers said:
Could this be attributed to the Honeymoon Period often experienced by T1's after starting insulin treatment?
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That is my thinking too which would explain your excellent 5.1 reading.
 
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Hi Maple, I'm also about 9 months in and had a similar experience of "not needing insulin" over Xmas which lead to me changing my regime from 2 a day intermediate acting Humulin I to just Novarapid with meals now.

When you were taking your insulin :lol: did you find that you had hypos every few days?
 
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mbudzi said:
Hi Maple, I'm also about 9 months in and had a similar experience of "not needing insulin" over Xmas which lead to me changing my regime from 2 a day intermediate acting Humulin I to just Novarapid with meals now.

When you were taking your insulin :lol: did you find that you had hypos every few days?
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No actually... I've never had a proper hypo... only two occurences of dropping below 3 but caught it before anything bad happend
 
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noblehead said:
Sid Bonkers said:
Could this be attributed to the Honeymoon Period often experienced by T1's after starting insulin treatment?
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That is my thinking too which would explain your excellent 5.1 reading.
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Not sure... can the 'honeymoon' period comb back? never had anything like this before... today, almost the same thing.. I had two banana's for breakfast, purposely did not take insulin then checked my readings after a bit and it was 4.9... usually I spike a bit with a banana...
 
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