Don’t feel right :(

[daniel warren]

merry Christmas guys, Iv been diagnosed type one for about a month now and I think my body has started to getting used to having normal sugar range because I’m not really getting false hypo symptoms( for me was just feeling shaky), still having a few hypos though maybe one a day or every other day which is still bumming me out I have been adjusting my ratios but still trial and error but recently I’ve started getting really worried about being low because about an hour or so after I eat and inject my stomach hurts like feels empty and I’ll check my sugars incase I’ve injected to much and iv gone low or not enough and have gone to high but near enough every time I have this feeling my sugars are with range so I’m wondering if something is wrong or if I’m just not eating enough?

Also i was wondering when you inject bolus to correct for your carb intake the rule of thumb is to be between 4 and 8 two hours after eating but if with the first hour your sugars shoot up to say 14 is that bad or are highs ok as long as your back with the normal range within that 2 hour window

 

[Northerner]

merry Christmas guys, Iv been diagnosed type one for about a month now and I think my body has started to getting used to having normal sugar range because I’m not really getting false hypo symptoms( for me was just feeling shaky), still having a few hypos though maybe one a day or every other day which is still bumming me out I have been adjusting my ratios but still trial and error but recently I’ve started getting really worried about being low because about an hour or so after I eat and inject my stomach hurts like feels empty and I’ll check my sugars incase I’ve injected to much and iv gone low or not enough and have gone to high but near enough every time I have this feeling my sugars are with range so I’m wondering if something is wrong or if I’m just not eating enough?

Also i was wondering when you inject bolus to correct for your carb intake the rule of thumb is to be between 4 and 8 two hours after eating but if with the first hour your sugars shoot up to say 14 is that bad or are highs ok as long as your back with the normal range within that 2 hour window

Hi daniel, I would say it's still early days for you yet. Prior to your diagnosis your body will not have been working efficiently as it didn't have access to the energy provided by your food, and it's probably that it is getting back to some sort of normality. I wonder if the feeling you get in your stomach is due to anxiety about your levels? It's certainly not unusual to be a bit at sea about whether you might be high or low, but this may be contributing to how you feel. I would say try to be a bit more relaxed about things - it will become easier with time and experience 🙂 When I was first diagnosed I had quite a few hypos, but they did start to decrease as I honed in on the sort of doses I needed for certain meals and circumstances - it really is very much trial and error to begin with.

What may be happening with the high readings after the first hour is that the insulin is not peaking at the same time as the food is digesting, so food digests quicker=levels going high, but then by the next meal they are back in range as the insulin peaks and brings them back down again. What I do is try and adjust the timing of my injection so the insulin has a chance to start working before I eat. This can be different for different meals and at different times of day, so again, it's a case of trying things and seeing what happens so you build experience. Sounds enormously complicated, I know, but it will start to become much more predictable 🙂

 

[daniel warren]

Hi daniel, I would say it's still early days for you yet. Prior to your diagnosis your body will not have been working efficiently as it didn't have access to the energy provided by your food, and it's probably that it is getting back to some sort of normality. I wonder if the feeling you get in your stomach is due to anxiety about your levels? It's certainly not unusual to be a bit at sea about whether you might be high or low, but this may be contributing to how you feel. I would say try to be a bit more relaxed about things - it will become easier with time and experience 🙂 When I was first diagnosed I had quite a few hypos, but they did start to decrease as I honed in on the sort of doses I needed for certain meals and circumstances - it really is very much trial and error to begin with.

What may be happening with the high readings after the first hour is that the insulin is not peaking at the same time as the food is digesting, so food digests quicker=levels going high, but then by the next meal they are back in range as the insulin peaks and brings them back down again. What I do is try and adjust the timing of my injection so the insulin has a chance to start working before I eat. This can be different for different meals and at different times of day, so again, it's a case of trying things and seeing what happens so you build experience. Sounds enormously complicated, I know, but it will start to become much more predictable 🙂

Hi northerner, thankyou for replying it’s been really helpful and yeah I did think it might be hypo anxiety because iv had quite a lot of them since being diagnosed I do get worried about having them and find myself checking my sugars whenever I feel abit strange which I need to get abit more relaxed about, and the information about the post meal peaks has been really helpful and I will experiment with my injection timings

Hope your having a good Christmas