Worried about my partner...Help!

hi Debz
could you try to get your partner onto a DAFNE course, ask her diabetic team about this . Does she ever miss injections or is she good at having injections when she should and also testing is very important , before every meal and two hours after, to get a good idea if insulin dose matches the food profile....ie what it does to her BG and try and adjust the insulin units to what she is about to eat ...which is all taught on DAFNE but there are some books out there on this...But a DSN would be the best person to help and advise her...keep at it with them , you will get the care you are entitled to if you make yourself heard..enough :wink:

I know the DAFNE stands for ,Dose adjustment for normal eating , which is great in theory,but you do mention she eats a lot of crisps ,cakes , chocolate. To be honest if you invented DAFNE you could never get good control on this sort of diet with Type1 diabetes...the fat content with the starchy carbs have delayed effects in action..so there will be deficits in insulin dose that will spike and plunge BG. It goes without saying that a healthy diet is the only one to follow for anyone really...let alone anyone trying to get Diabetes under control...but you need to make the effort and eat good and test. a low GI diet is good, or I find a low carb diet is best for my control and overall health. you will have to read up on diets and experiment...but try and stay away from, over processed, high fat high sugar ones as she obviously knows these aren't doing her any good.

She is the only one that can do it in the end but it is great she has a good partner there to support her. I hope she gets the help she needs, Good luck

What happening with these hypos

The lumps in her stomach are called Lipohypertrophy, which is basically lumps of fat which has been stimilated by the insulin injection... This will effect the insulin adsorption either by making it erratic or requiring more insulin to do the same Job

Now because you GF has changed sites to avoid these lumps, her insulin is adsorbing a lot better hence her lower suger levels and hypo's... So she needs to adust her insulin accordenly..

Your GF isn't at her idea weight, as her high BG's will be effeting her weight... Ketones with high BG's means that the body is going into DKA, so its burning fat but it doesn't mind where it can get fat from to burn, it take it from anywhere and it will take welch needed fat from mucles including the heart.. So she may think she's at her ideal weight but she's not as the weight is unhealthy in fashion..

She needs to learn carb counting, so she adjusts her insulin intake to match the carbs she's eating... But she does have to remember that yes courses such as DAFNE will help her eat normal foods, and this does sort of include the nicities of life, such as cake and/or chocolate but everything in moderation..

Excellent advice and also remember a chest infection will have kept her sugars high, and once the pills started working, her sugars would have come down (along with having moved injection sites away from the lipos) so I would have thought the hypos were to be expected. I don't think there's anything to worry about and when her sugars are under better control she'll be less prone to infections too.