Type 1 Weight gain after T1D diagnosis

[enzina]

Hi @Rosemaryy ,

It's great you will get the Libre on prescription! May i ask where you are based? I'm from Austria, all insulin dependent patients get the Libre there prescribed since three years. Also in France, Germany, Sweden etc.

 

[Daibell]

Hi @Japes I feel a lot better knowing i'm not the only one with these kinds of concerns. I'm glad i'm not alone!
I hope i can start losing weight as well when my body is finally stabilized and healthy again.

@Scott-C I check my blood sugar levels regularly, several times a day so i can manage my highs and lows as much as possible. Libre is definitely in the future for me. Where i live, everyone with type 1 diabetes gets one for free. My doctors told me i would be likely getting libre very soon, which is a huge relief. I hate stabbing my finger tips over and over again.

Hello @Daibell I usually eat about 100 to 150 carbs a day. I'm constantly hungry which is also a huge pain in the butt. Sorry if i'm unclear in what i write sometimes. English is not my main language. Though i'm quite fluent, some terms associated with diabetes are not yet so familiar. What i mean is that for example: My blood sugar is 10 and i eat about 30 carbs, i inject NovoRapid 3 units + fixing my blood sugar which would be about 2 units. (1 unit drops 2, i was told) So in that case i would inject 5 units and hopefully after that my blood sugar would be about under 7. Do tell me if there is something that came across as unclear.

Hi again. Thanks for the details. You seem to be doing all the right things and that level of carbs should normally enable you to hold or loose weight. Being hungry can often be helped by having enough fats and proteins to slow carb absorption but some people, like my wife, have continuous hunger which is a metabolic problem not easily fixed other than by will-power.

 

[Rosemaryy]

@enzina I'm from Finland.

Hi @Daibell It has indeed required a lot of will-power to eat less (but enough) and only the healthy stuff. But i believe my body will get used to it soon enough.