Good! Little by little it is getting better! It's a lot to figure out but in time it will be second nature.
i know 4.4 doesn't seem like a low, but for me, since my body got used to being in the 10mmol and up for a good 3 months, now when i go to 5 or 4 mmol it feels like a hypo, my hands shake and i feel very weird.
So how do i get my body used to being that low again?
As you start having more normal numbers, more regularly, then you won't have that effect anymore. You won't feel low until you are having an actual hypo.
cool that's encouraging. after my hypo of last night, i had some chocolat and some cereals with milk and i tested an hour after and my BG went up to a whopping 19.6 mmol.
I took my 20u lantus and went to bed. I could have taken a 3u bolus to correct the 19.6 but i figured i had to test 2 hours after to be sure but i had to get some sleep, also did not want to risk going into a hypo during my sleep.
So i went to bed and this morning i was at 10.9 mmol.
Sometimes in that situation, I'll hedge my bets by only taking a portion, like 1/2-2/3-3/4 of the correction bolus and just sleeping it off. That might have left you in between hypo and 10.9? It may also be that the ratios Zoe mentioned aren't quite right? It seems like a lot of times, they guesstimate newly dx'ed people and suggest an integer type of dose which amounts to a crude ratio but even +/- .5U off will make a pretty wide range in BG results so pinning those down more closely can be very useful?
I'd say you likely have a lot longer to better control your BG than an endo visit in 10 days!
for sure, i meant do my best in the next 10 days to have it in better control than 3 weeks ago.
I am freaking out, this morning while in class, i got this weird feeling, cannot say it was dizziness, was more like unable to focus or concentrate on what i was doing. Everything felt confusing and complicated and it's like my peripheral vision became smaller. Could this be an anxiety attack due to my diabetes or can it be a side effect of a high BG ?
I have felt like this a few times before when i was doing groceries or at a place with lots of things moving and lots of items on racks, it's like it makes me feel unstable.
Anyway i got up and went to the washroom and tested my BG and i was at 13.6 mmol.
I had to take the afternoon off and i called my clinic and left a message to tell them i am not feeling well. I am having trouble bringing my BG down, i feel hungry always 1 hour before lunch or dinner and in 3 weeks i have had 3 hypos.
I also had trouble sleeping and slept only 5 hours, woke up during the night and was sweating, i am freaking out.
Is my metabolic system in a deep mess?
Sorry you're having a rough time, DW. It sounds like you have been struggling to get your numbers in line, and being high a lot, with occasional crashes definitely can contribute to making you feel bad. Do you know how to correct highs? To do this you need to know your ISF - the number of points one unit of insulin lowers your blood sugar. Mine is 1:40 during the day and 1:60 at night, but yours may be completely different. You might want to call your doctor's office and ask.
Since you have said you are prone to anxiety, that certainly could be making it all worse, and tunnel vision can be a result of anxiety. But if you continue to have symptoms that seem more than your blood sugar should do (I just multiplied for 14 and it's 252 which is high but not outrageously so), you might want to call your doctor's office to see if something else is going on. It's easy to think everything has to do with diabetes, but sometimes it's something else.
I know this is no fun to hear, DW, but that is a lot of carbs to eat. I assumed you didn't bolus for it. Even with bolusing, chocolate, cereal and milk all together is hard to accurately bolus for. You might want to see if you can find some lower carb snacks. Even if you are eating it to correct a hypo, it's still way too much. Some people get very hungry when they're low so it's easy to overdo. That's why some of us use glucose tablets because they don't taste that great and we can learn the exact number to bring up a hypo - and they act a lot faster. Overtreating lows is something you learn not to do, because going from very low to very high is not good for us and makes us feel like crap.
Thanks i will call my doctor again tomorrow, yeah i feel something is not right,
I would like to lower my morning BG, i was wondering if i should take more bolus at dinner or increase my basal before bedtime.
I also noticed i been having memory loss lately, i forget things more. It’s like
I am not as sharp as usual.
I would definitely talk to the doctor about your memory loss. It might just be stress, but it could be something more serious.
For your morning BG it would be the basal that affects it. Try increasing by one unit.
ok i will try that Zoe. Yeah i been feeling like my brain is foggy or tired and is making me hard to focus.
Maybe i need more sleep, i had only 5 hours sleep last night and was feeling like a wreck all day.
the worst part is that, the courses i am taking require concentration and homework and class assignments and soon there will be 2 presentations to do in front of the class and i am extremely stressed and anxious, i do not do well in presentations, i get very nervous and i feel like i am going to faint.
This was not a good timing to be told to change medication and go on insulin only. I do not know how much time it will take to get used to it and it's stressing me out too...
You have my sympathy, DW. It's hard to deal with all that you need to learn about insulin at the same time as other stresses in life. Lots of people are nervous about presentations. Just be well prepared, get enough sleep, eat well, check your blood sugar before the presentation and correct if you're too low (or high), take a deep breath and know everyone understands.
Thank you, i will try my best.
if i can't do it, i will just postpone the course for another month and start with the next group.
I think it's the fear of fainting if i go too high or too low that's creating this anxiety. Also people asking me what to do if ever i do faint, not many people understand diabetes out there.
I noticed i am very irritable and sensitive to noises, so when everyone speaks at once it really bothers me. I just want to be myself again, i am tired of suffering.
yesterday was a good day, i hope tomorrow will be better because i feel like i am alone in this battle.
I hope it will too. You're not alone. You have 20,000 TuD friends!
Just took the day off today, i am going to test my BG all day and try some new injection amounts to see if it helps it go down. I woke up with a 10.8 mmol reading even though i took 21u of lantus last night. thats a 3u increase since i saw my Endo.
Breakfast
I am having a whole wheat bagel with 40 carbs and peanut butter and a coffee.
i took 7u of novorapid insulin.
i will test in 2 hours to see the result.
I also will ask for a CGM, so i can see my glucose as it is changing, so i don't have to prick my fingers 10 times a day.
I am postponing my studies to a month from now, so i can focus on stabilizing my eating habits, insulin dosage and anxiety, so i can better deal with the stress later.
Do not be ashamed to say that you feel anxiety or cannot focus if you are not feeling good due to diabetes. I had to tell some colleagues and the staff at the school. It's better to talk about it than try to hide it and then you feel worse.
If anyone suffers from same symptoms as me, if you need to talk about it, i will be glad to give you advice and the tricks i used to overcome it.
2 hours later, just checked and i am 14.2 mmol.
why am i so high, with only a bagel and peanut butter and 7 units of novorapid?
it says 100% whole grain, country harvest brand.
am i insulin resistant?
You might have a degree of insulin resistance, DW, but most of us have some at breakfast. Unfortunately, whole grain doesn't make much difference for most of us Type 1's. And for some reason I don't understand bagels are one of the hardest things to bolus for. I used to love fresh bagels and have given them up completely. Have you determined your I:C ratio for breakfast? Mine is 1:5 so for me 7 units would only cover 35 carbs, and there is also some carbs in the peanut butter and milk if you have it with your coffee. But even if I used my I:C ratio I probably wouldn't be able to eat a bagel.
I think you've made a good decision to postpone your studies to focus on D. And good for you for explaining to the people at school.
It could be the bagel...did you check the carbs on that? Also, some of the peanut butters have high fructose corn syrup in the ingredients. Different foods are trial and error with D. Each person responds differently and it is work to figure out the foods that will and won't spike you. For me, even with low carb breads, I need lots of insulin and I still sometimes spike. Same with the some of the peanut butters. I try to check the ingredients even if it says low carb because if I am not careful to do that I can spike.