Am I honeymooning?????

[rossi_mac]

Hi all just wanted to ask the panel a quickie.

I was diagnosed a little over 6 months ago, and I have been warned about honeymooning, a little while ago my ratio seemed to half, but I read on here about how that happens in March & October due to the seasons or something? But for over a month now I haven't been needing much novarapid. I haven't changed my levemir, but as I used to take between 6 and 12 for each meal time I have been taking 2 to 4 of late. My stress and activities haven't changed one bit. Will this suddenly change and my requirement go through the roof? I haven't been hypoing at all as I do test a lot to try and understand. Be nice to know that's all.

Any comments welcome, thanks guys/gals.

PS Congrats Admin.

 

[sofaraway]

I would say that it does sound like you are honeymooning, your pancreas is having a final fling, so your insulin requirements have gone down. You are doing the right thing to reduce your insulin so that you don't have hypos.
I wonder what your Levemir dose is? And if you need to reduce that as well. Do you have to feed your insulin?

what I have heard is that some people's honeymoon seems to end suddenly, and they have a permanent increase in insulin needs. Other's have more of a step effect, where the insulin needs go up and then up again etc. So it's more of a gradual thing.

 

[rossi_mac]

Thanks for your words, I'd got it in my head I wasn't as I thought if I was I would be producing random amounts of Insulin so hypoing all over the place!

 

[Northerner]

I've had to reduce my insulin lately. I've been diagnosed for ten months, and it would seem unlikely to me that I'm honeymooning. On the other hand, it may be that my body is finally getting back to normal after the rather drastic state it got into at diagnosis. I fell to 110 pounds and am now back up to 142, which is pretty much my optimum weight. Also, my resting heart rate is now much closer to what it was pre-diagnosis - was around 45 bpm, now around 55 bpm but was around 80 bpm in hospital with very abnormal ecg's.

So, maybe everything's settled down and I now have some element of beta cell function. I think there may also be something in this 'seasonal' aspect.

I've had to reduce both my novorapid and lantus though - I'm surprised you haven't had to alter your basal - I'm still adjusting mine and am now 20% lower than a few weeks ago, with possibly another adjustment downwards required. It's certainly keeping me on my toes!😱

 

[rossi_mac]

I'm on levemir and on 18 units a night, I'm waking up at good levels between 5 & 8 so don't see the point in adjusting it. Nurse initially said one way to go would be to get a good basal level and judge the other one well depending on activities food and the like.

Did you reduce your basal cause you were getting low a lot?

I don' t need to feed my insulin either, somehow I seem to be guessing the carb counting quite well!

Thanks again folks