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[Nanny B]

I am new to this just gone on Insulin in December. I have am a lada type 1.5 and I have Coeliac as well. Os there anybody smiliar to this on here struggling a bit. Not a lot of information out there for this type of diabetes. My Coeliac was keeping it at bay.x

 

[Leadinglights]

I am new to this just gone on Insulin in December. I have am a lada type 1.5 and I have Coeliac as well. Os there anybody smiliar to this on here struggling a bit. Not a lot of information out there for this type of diabetes. My Coeliac was keeping it at bay.x

Welcome to the forum, quite a few here with the same variant of Diabetes and they often have come through a route of misdiagnosis and a considerable struggle to get the correct treatment for their condition but once they have it is like a new world though tricky to negotiate.
Would you like to say a bit more about your diagnosis and what insulins you have. Do you also now have a Libre or similar for monitoring.
Hopefully a few will be along to give some words of wisdom.

 

[Nanny B]

Welcome to the forum, quite a few here with the same variant of Diabetes and they often have come through a route of misdiagnosis and a considerable struggle to get the correct treatment for their condition but once they have it is like a new world though tricky to negotiate.
Would you like to say a bit more about your diagnosis and what insulins you have. Do you also now have a Libre or similar for monitoring.
Hopefully a few will be along to give some words of wisdom.

Hi yes I have a libre for my monotoring also a needle prick machine too. I am on 2 insulin levemir and fiasp plus tablets linigliptin.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Welcome to the forum @Nanny B

We have a few members who have to balance the needs of multiple health conditions, and many here who live with T1 (or lada) were diagnosed as adults. It’s nothing like as rare as many Drs believe to develop T1 in later life, and LADA is just a term used for that, as it can come on more slowly and is easier to confuse with T2.

Hope your diagnosis went smoothly, and that your levels are responding now that you are on insulin. Which insulins are you using?

 

[Nanny B]

Welcome to the forum @Nanny B

We have a few members who have to balance the needs of multiple health conditions, and many here who live with T1 (or lada) were diagnosed as adults. It’s nothing like as rare as many Drs believe to develop T1 in later life, and LADA is just a term used for that, as it can come on more slowly and is easier to confuse with T2.

Hope your diagnosis went smoothly, and that your levels are responding now that you are on insulin. Which insulins are you using?

 

[Nanny B]

Hi thanks for your reply.
I take levimir and fiasp and linagliptin tablet got a libre monitor which is good. I am not bad through the day as long as I have a snack every 2 hours. Seem to go up high in the red in the morning after breakfast only. I watch what I eat and give up a lot of sweet thing.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Hi thanks for your reply.
I take levimir and fiasp and linagliptin tablet got a libre monitor which is good. I am not bad through the day as long as I have a snack every 2 hours. Seem to go up high in the red in the morning after breakfast only. I watch what I eat and give up a lot of sweet thing.

Have you been shown how to adjust your doses to match the amount of carbohydrate in your meals yet?

It may be that you need more insulin for the carbs you eat at breakfast? Or you may be one of the people (like me) who get a burst of glucose after getting out of bed as their bodies ‘fire up the burners’ for the day ahead. So I always need a little extra insulin at breakfast time, on top of the dose that will be dealing with my breakfast carbs.

 

[Nanny B]

Have you been shown how to adjust your doses to match the amount of carbohydrate in your meals yet?

It may be that you need more insulin for the carbs you eat at breakfast? Or you may be one of the people (like me) who get a burst of glucose after getting out of bed as their bodies ‘fire up the burners’ for the day ahead. So I always need a little extra insulin at breakfast time, on top of the dose that will be dealing with my breakfast carbs.

Hi
Know I havent been shown how to adjust my insulin I try putting the fast acting up once and it came down to quick I had a hypo, so they told me to reduce it back. I have this dawn phenomenon that happen about 4am, and it puts my sugar up before I get out of bed. It sounds like your.
I touching a 10 some morning. Going to try a no carb breakfast tomorrow see it that help but I do love my porridge. Gluten free doesn't have alot of fibre in it though.
Thanks for the advice got to see the nurse in a few weeks so I will ask her then maybe do 1/2 a unit

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Thanks for the advice got to see the nurse in a few weeks so I will ask her then maybe do 1/2 a unit

Sounds like a half unit pen would be very handy and allow you to fine tune things a little more?