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Thanks Northerner.

BG was 12.4 this morning so had a small correction with breakfast.

Keytone check was fine.

We have both but only shown the urine method. Will play around with the strip testing later today.

I think he was hungry but also I'm home now so I can eat what I like 🙂
 
Yesterday was a different routine. Dinner slightly later.

He's been having a carb free snack mid afternoon whilst in hospital. Didn't have that.
We went shopping and although not exercise probably the most he has walked in 5 days.

So assume all of this will have played a part in changing things
 
Good news 🙂 I wonder if you have come across JDRF in your googling? They are very centred on Type 1, and have a lot of support for children and parents. They also offer a children's 'KIDSAC' with Rufus bear.for newly-diagnosed children, although he may be a bit old for that! 🙂
 
I haven't northerner will check it out today.

Many thanks.
 
Good to see you are getting on so brilliantly and sorry to hear about your son's diagnosis - but you look like you are well on the right track. Just keep trying, testing, experimenting and attempting to keep those numbers somewhere near the range you'd like to see. Or to move towards that range in small steps - marathon not a sprint etc etc.

And try not to be too hard on yourselves when you get unexpected results - I'm afraid it's all part of the game. You can help to some extent by eating fairly regular sized meals so that you can have a good few goes at seeing what dose 'works', but you will quickly come to understand that you are only in control of some of the inputs in this complicated machine and that even if you ate exactly the same thing, weighed and measured to perfection, every single day - with carefully matched doses - even then you *still* wouldn't get perfect results. It's about finding a compromise between approaches and strategies that generally 'work', aiming for reasonable numbers and living a varied and enjoyable life.
 
Well after a high period. Pre dinner BG was 9 so getting back down. Will see what tonight holds.

I'm now I'll lol so we trecked to the Drs to get me some medication lol.

Enjoying it at the moment as we built some zombie targets today, been nice spending time with both sons. 🙂
 
Just a chesty cough. Although chest is clear.

Normally I would just get some hot honey and lemon and deal with it that way but due to son thought try and kick it quicker in case he gets it
 
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Just a chesty cough. Although chest is clear.

Normally I would just get some hot honey and lemon and deal with it that way but due to son thought try and kick it quicker in case he gets it
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Good thinking 🙂
 
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Curry and rice. Would it be a slower carb release that would cause a spike later although it would be a miscount as well.
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Rice might cause spikes, especially if it was white rice - have they told you to give your son brown rice (and pasta, and bread) rather than white?

But as others have said, don't worry about the odd 14 or whatever, it happens to all of us at some point, no matter how well we carb-count! It's readings which stay high over a long period of time that cause the problems, not the odd spike.
 
High fat with high carb. together is quite tricky to bolus for - stuff like curry, spag carbonara, pizza, chips ....... in fact the 'spike' after, is often referred to as 'the pizza effect'.

I will get a spike about 5 hours after I eat stuff like that - so I have to be strict about the actual amount of carb in the whole meal and also having a pump, can do an extended bolus, so I have some upfront (c 60%) and the rest dripped in over the next 90 mins/2 hours. You can't do that on MDI - you can however, split the bolus, some now, some a bit later. But it's probably a tad complicated/confusing for you both as yet - so why don't you just steer clear of stuff like that just for a bit until you are ALL more relaxed/more confident, about the whole shebang?
 
Sounds like it may have been due to the food as he was 9 though the night with a 6.9 before bed so normalising again.

He does love his food 🙂.
 
I'm still on a learning curve with food too.
I have porridge for breakfast every day (love the stuff!) I always have the jumbo oats or steel cut, or something similar, and my BG is always normal after breakfast. Two days ago I ran out of my porridge and used some of hubby's, the normal Quaker Oats stuff, which has much smaller flake size, both days my BG has been 12-13 after breakfast...
Diabetes is a fickle thing!
 
Off to clinic today so will get update on how we are all doing.

Pattern seems to be high in morning between 8-11 then settles down in afternoon from 5-8.

Nighttime ranges from 6-9

Will see if any adjustments needed.
 
Hope all goes well 🙂 Just wondering, is he testing immediately on waking or after he's been up and about for a bit? Many people's levels can start to rise rapidly in the morning due to the liver releasing extra glucose (known as 'Dawn Phenomenon) so levels taken, say, before breakfast might not reflect the true overnight level, when the FHTF (Feet Hit The Floor 🙂)
 
Ok ... Yeah we test before breakfast once up.

I'm doing two night tests at the moment may drop that down. The fact I missed one last night as kept hitting snooze 🙂

But that is to get some patterns also to ease my wife's anxiety 🙂
 
First clinic appointment.

Saw the data on graphs.

Been told don't need to do night testing. So some more sleep for me 🙂

We have adjusted breakfast dose to 1:8.

Also been told to now look at correcting if needed during the day as well as adjust lantus if needed.

Dietrician wasn't there but they still gave us insight into fast and slow carbs and to look at injecting 15 mins before eating.

All in all it was good session and feel they are taking us step by step on this learning curve together.

The Dr was greek which helps my wife (being greek) and her uncle phoned from Greece this evening saying he will take the Dr out for squid and ouzo if he takes care of my son. Lol.
 
A lot of parents are told they don't need to do night testing, but an awful lot of parents would vehemently disagree with that advice. The theory is that if a person drops low in the night their liver will (eventually) kick in and release glucose to raise levels. This does indeed happen, and is often observed as a 'rebound high' - drop low, liver over-compensates, person wakes on a high level which then sometimes leads them to believe that basal insulin needs increasing...increasing the risk of a night hypo! 😱 Unfortunately, it's not always true that the liver will respond, so it is a risk, and I think especially so when insulin requirements are changing shortly after diagnosis.
 
Thanks Northerner.

I always had stuck in my head the 3am time you mentioned as a possible time to switch to.

I know the wife won't sleep easy if not doing anything at least for the time being.

I'm not much of a sleeper anyway so it doesn't really bother me if I have to get up and if it helps my son in the early stages that's what it is for.

I did think it odd to go to know testing rather than once for now. They did say to test every 4 weeks or so again giving more readings to analyse.
 
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