Hello, I’m need of advice please.

[Inka]

I would deter curious children from touching it personally @StephB It won’t do any harm but IMO it’s wisest to keep them away from it for health and safety reasons. It will also stand them in good stead in future as they grow older as it will help them to understand if they come across similar circumstances.

Out and about in short sleeves, I found the only acquaintance who commented on it was one who knew what it was. It kind of goes on the back of your arm roughly opposite from your biceps so when people speak to you it’s not obvious. You could not mention it until a child eventually notices, and then downplay it to make it non-exciting, and explain not to touch because it might hurt you, or it will break, or whatever you feel is sensible to say.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Sorry to hear you are having a tough time with your diabetes at the moment.

If you are using mixed insulin and are happy to have Humalog as an occasional correction, I do think @Benny G made a good suggestion about perhaps moving to a more flexible basal:bolus / MDI system, where your background insulin and meal insulins are separate.

One of my first thoughts when I read your early posts was that perhaps your basal insulin was too much, but on a mixed, you can’t adjust one without the other so you are a bit stuck. Plus you have to put your lunch insulin in at breakfast, and then ‘feed it’ over its lifetime, or a hypo beckons.

With separate background and meal insulins if you want a larger or smaller lunch (or no lunch at all!) it’s fine to have it earlier or later, and doesn’t matter if there are unexpected delays. Because you only need to dose when you know you are eating something carby.

I know it might sound a stretch with your previous needle phobia, but it seems like you’ve made a lot of progress to work through that, and if needing corrections you are probably having the extra jabs anyway?

MDI is so much more tweakable and adjustable than mixed insulins - at least that was my experience of moving from one to the other.

 

[StephB]

Hi all.

Well after trying to continue a bit with how things were working I managed to get a good three weeks without incident and had only one hypo in that time frame. However, it wasn’t to last. Work made me feel really crappy about it all tbh. Last week I had a tummy bug and then when I went back things were fine the first day but then the second day I had a hypo and then the day after I had another, and a much worse one at that. It had me shaking still four hours after I treated it. My blood had risen to around 8 at the time so I wasn’t hypo but I kept displaying symptoms and I think the just general way I was talked to about it with my senior saying that I’d had a hypo everyday and have been doing this for a while and not sorting it. I ended up in tears to my gp cause I couldn’t get a hold of my diabetic team at the time. So I’m now off work for the next week and getting into the 4 injections a day regime.

i haven’t had a great start, my bloods are sitting at 16-19 atm and it’s actually freaking me out having them that high! I’m guessing this is because I haven’t had a dose of the levemir yet?

With the CGM I’ve left it for now, I want to get more into the routine of this new way of treating diabetes for myself before I add a whole new gadget to the mix!

 

[Bruce Stephens]

It had me shaking still four hours after I treated it. My blood had risen to around 8 at the time so I wasn’t hypo but I kept displaying symptoms

That's completely normal. After a significant hypo it can take a while to recover.

 

[Bruce Stephens]

With the CGM I’ve left it for now, I want to get more into the routine of this new way of treating diabetes for myself before I add a whole new gadget to the mix!

It makes sense to learn to cope without a CGM (because we don't always have one). On the other hand, a CGM with alarms can make it much easier to catch a hypo before it gets bad (before it's technically a hypo at all). Like most things it's a balance.

 

[StephB]

That‘s fine, it’s just I’ve never felt like that after a hypo in recent memory maybe the next hour but not a few hours later.
and yeah, no I want to learn to do this first before I begin adding other things. I’m becoming a bit more open to it. I mean I spent my birthday crying at the idea of injecting 4 times a day cause I refuse to do my arms myself cause I can’t directly look at the area I’m injecting and I know blind people can do that and that’s amazing but I just can’t bring myself to, I may change on this stance eventually but right now I can’t see that changing. So I get the fear of like injecting a site too many times. I actually have so many fears regarding my diabetes I didn’t have a few months ago but I’m trying to relearn to get along with it.

Just wanted to thank everyone that replied to my first message. The advice and help was greatly appreciated!! Forever grateful!

 

[Inka]

The heat isn’t helping at the moment @StephB Perhaps that contributed to making your hypo worse. They can really turn your arms and legs to jelly for hours.

Just sending you a {{{hug}}} because diabetes can be stressful sometimes.