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First appointment with the dietitian!!

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Emma J Davis

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I have my first appointment with the dietitian on Friday. I have had so many hypos in the last two weeks that I'm anxious of what they will say. I was given very little information when I was diagnosed on how to control and treat hypos and I'm a little afraid that the dietitian will blame me for having so many.
 
No she won't! - however you really need to discuss the amount(s) of insulin you are taking in comparison to the food you are eating and the exercise you are taking, to get advice on how to balance all these things. Nobody expects you to know automatically for the simple reason we are all different in how much we need and when, to do what!

Just tell her and show her your BG test results, and take it from there.
 
trophywench said:
No she won't! - however you really need to discuss the amount(s) of insulin you are taking in comparison to the food you are eating and the exercise you are taking, to get advice on how to balance all these things. Nobody expects you to know automatically for the simple reason we are all different in how much we need and when, to do what!

Just tell her and show her your BG test results, and take it from there.
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Thank you x
 
The dietitian at our diabetes clinic certainly got me on track. She taught me about carb counting and correction doses.
Just make sure you have your food diary completed as accurately as possible.
 
I woke up hypo every night the first week after I was diagnosed, I was getting up and eating jam sandwiches in the middle of the night and still waking up with my blood sugar reading 4 or 5 the next morning. When I went in for my first appointment with consultant/DSN/dietician (it was a long afternoon!) they just looked at the amount of insulin I'd been told to inject and told me to drop my basal from 16 units to 6!

When they first tell you your doses it's their best guess at the time, it will take them a while to get the doses right (and even then you'll need to adjust from time to time). If you keep having lots of hypos, do keep pestering your DSN or consultant to find out what they want you to do in terms of reducing insulin, it's their job to sort it out for you!

It would be a good idea to ask the dietician about how best to treat hypos though, that's something you need to know - and whoever diagnosed you is to blame for not telling you in the first place, you are not to blame for not knowing.
 
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