As some of you know by my recent posts, I was recently diagnosed with Type 1. Because of my honeymoon, I am able to handle my blood sugars with no insulin (this is my second day fingers crossed.) I started with 25 units a day, over a month and a half reduced to 5, now I am trying it with no insulin. This is the second day, and both days around 2 1/2 to 3 hours after breakfast I have had sugar readings in the 50’s. Last night 3 hours after a dinner of 70 carbs, I was in the low 60’s. I don’t feel low, is this because of the honeymoon my numbers will reflect a person that doesn’t have diabetes, therefore 50 isn’t anything to worry about with no insulin being injected? I ate a snack last night of about 12 carbs before bed, and awoke with a reading in the mid 80’s.
Just wondering if since I am not on insulin treatment during this time, if I should really worry about those 50 and 60 readings since it is my own pancreas that is controlling it.
Yeah, I'd be more concerned about bouncing high as a result of the hypo. Without insulin to mediate, you could skyrocket.
Might sound a bit counter-intuitive, but maybe cut back on the mealtime carbs to avoid those postmeal crashes. Sounds like you have a bunch of overzealous islet cells that are feeling their oats, so to speak.
My 1 hour post meal for dinner last night was 137, and my post breakfast meal was 141. I know this is only temporary, but doesn’t that mean that my meals aren’t carb happy?
Those numbers are great! I'd be perfectly happy if I was consistently in the high 130s and low 140s an hour postmeal.
Whether or not I'd have to adjust my insulin, though, would also depend on what my 2 and 3 hour post meal numbers are. You're numbers look good 1 hour postmeal, but it looks like you are crashing an hour later. You're not taking insulin so it looks like you are getting some kind of response from endogenous sources that are making you crash. I imagine that your pancreas is responding to your carb load so maybe decreasing your mealtime carbs would give you less of a response later.
and just a another 2 cents.... 50 is not normal for anyone. Especially non-diabetics. If I hit 50 I would be sitting down. My body hates anything below 70 still. I guess that is good but 50 would make me go nuts.
And yet my CDE said there are plenty of perfectly non-diabetic individuals out there running around with BG's in the 50s and 60s and they feel fine. So I think it is variable for people...
Well I am not a CDE (YET... an not close to it) but I imagine there are people out there in all kinds of degrees of blood sugars that function fine as they are. When I was first DXed and got back to "normal" I could not handle being lower than 100. Now that is where I like to be 90-110. But below 70 starts the "stupids" I get goofy and my wife tells me my face changes. I guess I look drowsy or something. I would believe your CDE just because they have much more experience with lots of cases.
Who knows what his BG dipped to prior to diagnosis? It could have dipped to 50 normally and he felt fine- but after a prolonged period of time at higher levels, it feels like a low now.
Yeah, good point. I am thinking more on the lines of what FHS said. I think this is the first time my pancreas has been left "on it's own" since the attack. I think the few guys I have left just go out of control when they see some carbs. It's just weird. The lunch I had today was the leftovers from what I ate last night (and I had half the serving today as I did last night.) Last night, I peaked at 135, today at lunch, again, same exact food except smaller portion, I spiked to 240. I think I am just going to have to have my novopen ready, and if I see it's leveling out on ole Dex, leave it, and if its still rising past 150, post-bolus it. Crazy...
My girfriend had a hypo incident last year and acually passed out from it. By the time she was home, she was back into the 70s and was till feeling woozy. She didn't feel completely normal until she was back in the 80s.
I can only share that there's still a lot to be learned about managing the condition, and unfortunately there is no easy solution. Lows and highs without a proper explanation to them have happened to me often too. It is frustrating, but shows all the more why we need a cure.
I would think it depends on how you feel. Seeing that you are newly diagnosed, as I am, I wouldn't think you'd already be in a position for hypoglycemic unawareness. I'd say as long as you're feeling okay with your numbers then you should be okay. I have a lot of my tests come back in the 70s, which Mike said would make him feel not so great, but I'm fine with it. Even at the lowest I've tested so far (64) I felt fine. Oddly enough, the couple of times I thought I might be low and tested I was in the mid 80's each time.
