Not getting this right!

[BigRoddy]

I know it's only week 2 with type one, but I thought I had a handle on it. Monday and Tuesday was great. Kept my bg around 6.8 for those 2 days.

This morning 23.8. Must have injected into muscle last night, not to worry, will have a low carbon breakfast and inject as normal. WRONG.

Now sitting in work stuffing jelly babies into me to get up from 2.7.

I feel like a kid again, having to learn by my mistakes. I know the saying "whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger" didn't think it was going to be literal. Lol.

Right 2 more jelly babies and a cup of coffee... dare I use sugar instead if sweeteners. ... me thinks yes. Today of all days

 

[June_C]

Don't forget that jelly babies will only pull your bg up for a short time and then it will slump again. You need to eat some carbs, toast, biscuits, a sandwich for example in order to stabilise your bg level.

 

[FrankieAngels]

Hi BigRoddy

I feel your pain!

I'm 6 weeks diagnosed and it's pretty overwhelming trying to understand the complexities of the condition.

However, what I have learned is that you won't have full control over every element initially. As your body adjusts to insulin being pushed into your system it can randomly produce small amounts of insulin again. There's also a phenomenon where your liver can randomly dump a load of glucose.

I'm sure there will be forum members along shortly who can give you more reassuring reasoning but I've tried to not get too upset by random highs and lows in the early days.

As long as you stick to whatever regimen your DSN has given you and test regularly, you'll get there!

 

[tim2000s]

Must have injected into muscle last night, not to worry, will have a low carbon breakfast and inject as normal. WRONG.

I assume you mean your Levemir? For most people, it doesn't matter too much if Levemir goes into muscle due to the way it works. It is designed to unravel from its protein string slowly, so it can do that anywhere, unlike Lantus, which needs to create a reservoir otherwise it acts like a fast acting insulin.

It's more likely that your issue is caused by the fact you are in honeymoon and that last night you produced less insulin yourself than you might have been doing on previous nights or that the pressure release on your beta cells caused them to release more insulin making you to go low overnight and release Glucagon to cause a liver dump to counter the low.

Similarly, this morning's injection of NovoRapid is likely to have relelased a bit of pressure on your beta cells, causing them to feel a bit better and suddenly release insulin in response to the food (and probably protein in the food) you ate, which I assume was something like eggs and bacon, and work on top of your NovoRapid.

Isn't the body fun in this stage of T1!

 

[Wurst]

Did you wash your hands before testing and getting the 23.8 result ? Happened to me last night , forgot to wash and had a 10 ish reading , washed and rechecked and was at nice 4.9 where I expected it to be. Would of injected way too much insulin without the second test and hypo'd.

 

[BigRoddy]

And of all days, it's a 16 hour shift today. But thanks for all the info, have just had a sandwich to keep me topped up on carbs, a cup of coffee ( sweeteners I chickened out) and wait for the next group of lunatics, sorry customers, to arrive

 

[BigRoddy]

This day is finally coming to an end - one more hour of work and i can go home. Have not felt this bad in years. Have managed to stabilize my bg to 8 ish, but feel like death warmed up

 

[Diamattic]

That sucks man!

Everything i have been told is that if you inject into a muscle the insulin absorbs faster, so i don't think that would cause a high.

If its only been 2 weeks your probably still in the honeymoon phase and that will cause you to be all over the place :/ It settles down, but the key i found was to really nail down the basal insulin as fast as possible. Doing this limits all those hypos/hypers to post meal, so you at least won't be surprised by them

best of luck BigRoddy!