Hi have just been taken off insulin because of weight lose and a lot of exercise, problem is that I am being woke up in the night with a bad headache and in the morning blood sugar is about 9 and I am playing catch up all day. Any ideas on what I can eat for supper to help? Thanks🙂
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Sorry am I missing something here. You have registered as type 1 and you have been taken off insulin. Did I read it right?
I have heard of a lot of things and I may have this wrong, but type 1s usually need insulin forever.
Sorry if it appears I m on the attack, but I am trying to understand, so hopefully someone will put me right.
I have heard of a lot of things and I may have this wrong, but type 1s usually need insulin forever.
Sorry if it appears I m on the attack, but I am trying to understand, so hopefully someone will put me right.
Copepod
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What is your blood glucose when you wake up in the night with a headache? Your course of action depends on what's happening to your body. It's unusual, but not unknown for adults to have insulin for a while, then for their pancreas to recover for a bit, stop needing insulin injections for a while, then need to restart later.
A waking blood glucose reading of 9mmol/l is a bit higher than ideal. When you say "playing catch up all day" do you mean that you need to eat to maintain blood glucose levels (stop them dropping too low) or something else?
It's possible that you have reactive hypoglycaemia, but you really need to discuss with your diabetes team, ideally with as detailed records as you can supply about blood glucose readings, food eaten, exercise done, any medication taken etc.
A waking blood glucose reading of 9mmol/l is a bit higher than ideal. When you say "playing catch up all day" do you mean that you need to eat to maintain blood glucose levels (stop them dropping too low) or something else?
It's possible that you have reactive hypoglycaemia, but you really need to discuss with your diabetes team, ideally with as detailed records as you can supply about blood glucose readings, food eaten, exercise done, any medication taken etc.
Kerry Type 1
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sounds like sugar is crashing and your body is kicking in while you sleep ? ... the worst headache ever !?
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