Hi all,
I'm 26, male, type 1 diabetic, diagnosed 2005. I take novorapid fiasp and optisulin lantus injections, and use freestyle fibre 2+ sensors. In 2024 I had an intense experience in Indonesia where my blood sugars were constantly dropping and the only insulin I took for 3 days was my Lantus, at a reduced dose (12 down from 24). I was constantly taking on sugar to prevent a hypo, and would eventually fall asleep from exhaustion, only to be woken up a few hours later with a low blood sugar. I had bloods taken at a hospital over there, and they came back all normal. I hopped on a plane in pure panic back to the UK armed with an arsenal of sugary foods in my backpack, and of course as soon as I landed my blood sugars started behaving normally again. I was very active on that holiday and it was hot/humid, but I had just come from a year in Australia doing labouring, so I wouldn't say it was conditions I wasn't used to.
I'm more cautious now but I carried on with life as usual, and my diabetes management, whilst I've never been a model diabetic, was good by my standards. However, I now experience recurring episodes like the one described above, however much less intense. This has happened during periods of cold and warm weather, during periods when I'm very active and also periods when I'm not so active. As I travel a lot I lack routine, so it is very difficult to identify a cause. The reason I am looking for help again is I just experienced another quite intense one, and I was under the impression that the episodes were diminishing in intensity. I'm working as a furniture delivery driver in Australia, and yesterday I was working and my blood sugars kept dropping. I usually have reduced insulin needs when working anyway as it is a physical job, but it was out of the ordinary on that day, and I was eating like no tomorrow just to stave off a hypo. Today I'm very inactive and cutting my insulin by more than half, and still needing to eat snacks to stop a hypo after doses. I'm hoping I can find someone who's also experienced something like this, and whether they identified a cause.
I'm 26, male, type 1 diabetic, diagnosed 2005. I take novorapid fiasp and optisulin lantus injections, and use freestyle fibre 2+ sensors. In 2024 I had an intense experience in Indonesia where my blood sugars were constantly dropping and the only insulin I took for 3 days was my Lantus, at a reduced dose (12 down from 24). I was constantly taking on sugar to prevent a hypo, and would eventually fall asleep from exhaustion, only to be woken up a few hours later with a low blood sugar. I had bloods taken at a hospital over there, and they came back all normal. I hopped on a plane in pure panic back to the UK armed with an arsenal of sugary foods in my backpack, and of course as soon as I landed my blood sugars started behaving normally again. I was very active on that holiday and it was hot/humid, but I had just come from a year in Australia doing labouring, so I wouldn't say it was conditions I wasn't used to.
I'm more cautious now but I carried on with life as usual, and my diabetes management, whilst I've never been a model diabetic, was good by my standards. However, I now experience recurring episodes like the one described above, however much less intense. This has happened during periods of cold and warm weather, during periods when I'm very active and also periods when I'm not so active. As I travel a lot I lack routine, so it is very difficult to identify a cause. The reason I am looking for help again is I just experienced another quite intense one, and I was under the impression that the episodes were diminishing in intensity. I'm working as a furniture delivery driver in Australia, and yesterday I was working and my blood sugars kept dropping. I usually have reduced insulin needs when working anyway as it is a physical job, but it was out of the ordinary on that day, and I was eating like no tomorrow just to stave off a hypo. Today I'm very inactive and cutting my insulin by more than half, and still needing to eat snacks to stop a hypo after doses. I'm hoping I can find someone who's also experienced something like this, and whether they identified a cause.
