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<blockquote data-quote="Fairygodmother" data-source="post: 2271488" data-attributes="member: 68789"><p>Good morning [USER=13050]@Rhys[/USER], it’s good news that your blood sugars are beginning to look good, between 5 and is 6 great!</p><p>Have you had any more contact with any medics? Maybe you could ask your GP to see if the Diabetes Specialist Nurse could ring you. </p><p>I was diagnosed many years ago, fifty + to be exact, and things were different then, but I think these days people tend to let two to three months pass while a new Type One and their endocrine system adjusts to having some exogenous insulin in the system. In the meantime, are you keeping any records? If you jot down the blood sugars you wake with, your readings before meals, the grams of carbohydrate in the meal, the amount of insulin you take, and your blood sugar readings two or three hours after meals, plus your blood sugar before bed, then it’ll be far far easier for whoever his tasked with finding the right dose of insulin for you once this initial phase has passed. Adding the time of each note will help too. I know it seems like lots more to burden you with at the moment, but with any luck you’ll eventually use a Dexcom or an Abbott Freestyle Libre and an app to do it all electronically. There are some pretty good carbohydrate counting apps around too, I use Carbs and Cals, it isn’t perfect, and others may have found better ones, but it provides a good basis, plus all the product labels. Things certainly have changed for the better for us in the last fifty years.</p><p>The Diabetes Consultant I see said back in March that he’d be doing consultations by phone for a year, so you may need to email any records to whoever you are linked with. Has your hospital got a Diabetes Clinic?</p><p>Good luck, and well done so far.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fairygodmother, post: 2271488, member: 68789"] Good morning [USER=13050]@Rhys[/USER], it’s good news that your blood sugars are beginning to look good, between 5 and is 6 great! Have you had any more contact with any medics? Maybe you could ask your GP to see if the Diabetes Specialist Nurse could ring you. I was diagnosed many years ago, fifty + to be exact, and things were different then, but I think these days people tend to let two to three months pass while a new Type One and their endocrine system adjusts to having some exogenous insulin in the system. In the meantime, are you keeping any records? If you jot down the blood sugars you wake with, your readings before meals, the grams of carbohydrate in the meal, the amount of insulin you take, and your blood sugar readings two or three hours after meals, plus your blood sugar before bed, then it’ll be far far easier for whoever his tasked with finding the right dose of insulin for you once this initial phase has passed. Adding the time of each note will help too. I know it seems like lots more to burden you with at the moment, but with any luck you’ll eventually use a Dexcom or an Abbott Freestyle Libre and an app to do it all electronically. There are some pretty good carbohydrate counting apps around too, I use Carbs and Cals, it isn’t perfect, and others may have found better ones, but it provides a good basis, plus all the product labels. Things certainly have changed for the better for us in the last fifty years. The Diabetes Consultant I see said back in March that he’d be doing consultations by phone for a year, so you may need to email any records to whoever you are linked with. Has your hospital got a Diabetes Clinic? Good luck, and well done so far. [/QUOTE]
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