Diabetes Greeting

[rebrascora]

That last graph certainly looks like a great improvement so well done!
If you are newly diagnosed they will want you to bring your levels down slowly and perhaps you haven't been shown how to do corrections yet or perhaps told not to do corrections before bed which is to keep you safe. Once you become confident of using your insulin and doing corrections, then you will be able to inject a little fast acing insulin when your levels are persistently high like they were the other night, to bring them down a bit, but at this early stage I would not worry too much about those 11-13 readings unless they happen every night.

Personally, I get restless when I hit double figures particularly through the night and so I have my upper alarm set to 9 but it has taken me 4 years to gain the confidence to use my insulin to keep my levels below 10 the vast majority of the time and setting your high alarm at 9 or even 10 right now would be unrealistic and likely mean your alarm was going off far too much, so I would say, don't worry too much about it at this time, but ask about doing corrections when you next see your nurse.

 

[Tdm]

High blood sugars will give you a poor night's sleep.
When i was first diagnosed i took my diabetes nurses word as carved in stone truth and didn't want to change things without their agreement. That has...rather changed now.

But you only really take control of your diabetes when you understand and adjust your own doses.
And only you know when you are ready to do that.

Also, no point in alarms if you aren't going to do anything as a result of the alarm.

 

[Damaris]

This is all great advice. I think I’m just scared about injecting throughout the night. I’ve been injecting around the same time everyday and another thing is knowing how much I would have to inject. These are things I’m unsure about. It’s only been 3 months since I got diagnosed as a Type 1.

 

[Tdm]

This is all great advice. I think I’m just scared about injecting throughout the night. I’ve been injecting around the same time everyday and another thing is knowing how much I would have to inject. These are things I’m unsure about. It’s only been 3 months since I got diagnosed as a Type 1.

Thats very understandable, took me a while before i was confident sleeping with active novorapid in me.
I remember settin alarms through ghe night so i could check my levels...fun times!
Best thing at the mo is to get to a good stable level before bed

 

[Lucyr]

This is all great advice. I think I’m just scared about injecting throughout the night. I’ve been injecting around the same time everyday and another thing is knowing how much I would have to inject. These are things I’m unsure about. It’s only been 3 months since I got diagnosed as a Type 1.

In this scenario then I would turn off the high alarm until you know how to do corrections. You don’t need to be woken up when your bgs are high if you’re not ready to do corrections.