Battling lows!

[Northerner]

For some reason I have been battling lows all day today. I've been dropping my insulin doses very low, but still not enough it seems! Looking back over the day my tests have been:

5.8 on waking, 4.7, 3.4, 3.9, 3.2, 3.9. 4.9, 4.5.

I don't normally test quite so much, but have tested when I felt symptoms - at least I have good hypo-awareness! 🙄 Worked out that my hypo treatments have amounted to about 60g carbs today 😱

 

[Pumper_Sue]

How many jelly babies did that work out to?
Perhaps shares in a JB factory could be an option 😎

 

[Northerner]

12 jelly babies in total! 🙂

 

[Tina63]

Bit of stodge for supper perhaps???

 

[Northerner]

Bit of stodge for supper perhaps???

I should be OK because I don't need lantus any more - went to bed on a 4.7 last night with no fears of night hypos 🙂

 

[PattiEvans]

You are deffo the oddest T1 I have ever come across Northie! LOL! perhaps you need a few more daytime carbs? Or keep off em and find out if your pancreas actually works after being given a rest?

 

[Northerner]

You are deffo the oddest T1 I have ever come across Northie! LOL! perhaps you need a few more daytime carbs? Or keep off em and find out if your pancreas actually works after being given a rest?

To be fair, I have been much more active over this past week so have been reducing my novorapid considerably. As soon as I take my foot off the gas I quickly find I am raising my doses again! I am, indeed, very weird! 🙂

 

[PattiEvans]

You are probably far more active than anyone I know... good luck to you hon! Long may it continue!

 

[Northerner]

Well, I was 5.8 on waking today, went for a 6.5 mile run and was...5.8 on return. Before lunch I was 5.9! Reduced my lunch bolus by 20% to see what happens. Do you think I will be at 5.8 or 5.9 before my next meal? 🙂

 

[novorapidboi26]

I honestly dont think there are any type 1s out there like you Alan, it really is mind boggling........

fingers crossed for no highs........😉

 

[Phil65]

Well, I was 5.8 on waking today, went for a 6.5 mile run and was...5.8 on return. Before lunch I was 5.9! Reduced my lunch bolus by 20% to see what happens. Do you think I will be at 5.8 or 5.9 before my next meal? 🙂

.....I find it hard to believe you have type 1 Alan! 😉.....I can only dream of those numbers ....especially after exercise!

 

[Northerner]

.....I find it hard to believe you have type 1 Alan! 😉.....I can only dream of those numbers ....especially after exercise!

Exercise has a delayed effect on me - levels are more likely to fall a few hours later rather than during the actual exercise. 🙂

 

[Phil65]

Exercise has a delayed effect on me - levels are more likely to fall a few hours later rather than during the actual exercise. 🙂

...sometimes mine go up, sometimes down.....often all over the place! ....and nothing more frustrating than exercising and then having to take sugar on board to combat lows!

 

[lauraw1983]

You obviously still have a fair bit insulin production of your own.....I'd be pushing for a c-peptide test even more now!

Completely baffling.

I dream of the numbers you get and I saw another thread where your highest reading has been 17.1 or similar - I can see rises like that for things like takeaways, due to delayed rises! Bah! 😡