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Oops! I think Pigeon and me are contradicting each other! Thinking abut it, she is correct - if he went to bed at 6 and didn't rise overnight then the basal is correct, so scrub what I just said!
 
Now we really have muddied the waters haven't we? Sorry! Agree that you need much more information to go on 🙂
 
I suspect that the snacking would make it difficult to adjust one or the other unless it was very consistent.

Hopefully he will see for himself that his body's not managing things so well by itself and will need him to take a bit more interest. His DSN can explain the difficulties of snacking, although it may take a while longer for him to adjust his eating habits. Never an easy thing.

Influences can come from overheard conversations or articles in a paper. If hes read a horror story about a diabetic who didn't take care of themself and it strikes a chord, then maybe he will start to feel more self-aware.

It could even be (shock horror) that he takes on board what you tell him and battles with himself whether to comply or not. It can be hard to resist doing something out of stubbornness when you know it's actually the right thing to do. As a male of the species, he can only last so long before giving in to female common sense ! 🙄:D

Rob
 
Tina63 said:
13.4 last night and 12.3 this morning, not good figures despite him seemingly injecting.

I actually don't think he has told anyone at work about his T1, except putting it on his form because he had to. I asked him early on if anyone had mentioned it at all at interview, he said no, and I also said he should make the first aider aware, but that got a negative response. I truly doubt anyone at work knows.

We will see.
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Don't worry too much about people at his workplace knowing abiut his diabetes - it's more important that he makes sure he eats when he needs, and he has emergency food to hand

Most of my colleagues don't know about my diabetes, because they don't need to know, as I've never needed any first aid, diabetes related or otherwise from anyone at work (even when I fell down cattlegrid last July, broke skin on shin & ankles, and damaged knee, I was better skilled at cleaning & dressing wounds and applying cool pack than anyone in the vicinity) I prefer to suss out first aiders before deciding whether or not to tell them. Some colleagues have had some sensible things to say about all sorts of things, job related and life related!

As a teenager paper round girl, then outdoor activities instructor at holiday camp, then relief postman, many colleagues a few years older were very valuable source of advice about life, work, relationships, the universe and everything! 🙂
 
I concur.

Our first aider at work said to me - Let's get this perfectly clear, shall we? - if I found you or anyone else unconscious on the floor I'd step over you to dial 999 - No WAY would I ever TOUCH you!

😱
 
I am pleased to read that your son is now testing. Maybe what was said at the hospital took a while to filter through.
 
13.4 before dinner again last night (and he wouldn't have eaten whilst on a 4 hour shift at work) so I told him to add 2 more units of Novorapid with his dinner, he has then woken at 9.3 this morning. It is a school day so of course he got up significantly earlier so I guess that will have made a bit of a difference over yesterday's reading.

The sensible side of me says contact the DSN now and get some guidance on upping the levels (I suspect she will say to up the Lantus first) but he has an AS level exam on Friday, so I am inclined to leave things be for the rest of this week. I may give it a couple of days when we have more figures then contact her and explain the exam situation, maybe then she will suggest altering doses Friday night. Then though, I will worry if it will affect him at work on Saturday.....! I would rather him have a hypo at school than at work if that is going to start happening again. He hasn't had one for 6 months, so it will come as a bit of a shock to him I suspect.

I guess this goes to show the honeymoon period is well and truly over, because looking back in his diaries, it only took a week or two at the very beginning to get almost every reading under 10, in fact most in the target range 4-8. Looking through them, ours have a 2 page spread, there would only be one or two over 10 readings every two weeks. Quite the opposite to now. The Lantus has been at 25u since about week 8, and that did hold him steady for months.

I'm hoping that as his levels come back down to normal range he will start to feel physically so much better, and therefore realise the benefits. My only worry with all this is that he is testing/injecting at the moment as he has this appointment next week. I do wonder what will happen after that. I suspect though his DSN will keep in regular touch for a while and he does have another clinic appointment on 23rd Feb, so I guess he knows they will be looking for a drastic improvement by then. I guess with levels like he has at the moment his HbA1c isn't going to improve from 12, it will probably get worse before it gets better. Still, at least I feel he is making improvements with testing and injecting more regularly, it's just the doses that need altering now.
 
You may find that now he has a routine, he will stick with it, at least as it is.

His exam stress (if he suffers with it) will probably raise his BGs, possibly quite a bit, so don't be alarmed if it happens. But they might crash the next day so as you say, be cautious with adjustments.🙂

Rob
 
Ok thanks for that advice Rob. I didn't see any real evidence of that in the summer with his GCSEs, he's not a stressful type. I do feel though that that's when the rot first set in. He didn't take any novorapid with his meal immediately before an exam (breakfast or lunch depending on am or pm exam) and as he seemed to be able to bring figures back into line by the next test, I think that's when he first started thinking he could skip the odd dose. Then skipping one dose went on to two doses, and that's what led us into the situation we are now in. It is a one off exam until the summer, so hopefully as he's on the Humilin and hasn't had any adverse reactions he will just carry on as normal. It's an afternoon exam, so as long as he has a decent lunch he should be fine.
 
glad to hear that he's now testing Tina...that must be a great relief for you.

Remember, just encourage and let him realise/see how useful it is to be testing 🙂 it's a very hard game!!

But well done...whatever you did (or didn't!!) do paid off 🙂
 
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