trophywench
Well-Known Member
- Relationship to Diabetes
- Type 1
4 is a tad low to be at for long periods - doesn't give you any leeway before you get into hypo territory - it's too close. 9 or above is again too high to spend long periods at.
Ideally of course we'd want to stay at 5 all day and all night - but seeing as that's most unlikely for anyone with T1 - try and stay somewhere between the high 4s and the low 7's for as long as you can, without having to DO anything is about the best sort of range I would suggest for a newly diagnosed Type 1. Eating always sends anyone's BG up - even non diabetics! so don't worry after meals if yours does and it isn't at all crucial at this stage to ensure that it doesn't. However when you test before the next meal you have, you'd like it to be nicely back at around the same number it was before you ate the previous one. That's round about what you are aiming for at the moment. To simplify it, which bless em, the NHS usually does - they usually suggest you can aim for between 5.0 and 7.5. How does that sound to you?
This is always tricky when you start because if your insulin producing cells haven't all kicked the bucket yet - they could decide to 'help out' at any stage and you never know when so you're absolutely bound to get 'glitches' at random times until they've stabilised. Nobody 'medical' is going to worry about this very much, so you needn't either - unless you're having constant problems with it for ages and ages. A few weeks or months is 'normal' - but personally, I never seemed to have this so perhaps mine all dropped dead at more or less the same time? Nobody knows or actually cares, 45 years later! LOL
Now I'm going to surprise you - some T1s still produce some insulin themselves - some, even after having it for 70 years! OK - it's nowhere near enough to do anything whatsoever useful to the body they are in - but the fact remains - some people do and some people don't. Nobody can tell upfront which sort you or I happen to be cos they haven't yet worked out how/why. And the vast majority of us will shuffle off this mortal coil without knowing. It isn't of any benefit to know which you are anyway - so it's absolutely nowt to worry about - just interesting is all! Fancy that. And then just forget about it!
Hope at least some of that, helps Craig.
Ideally of course we'd want to stay at 5 all day and all night - but seeing as that's most unlikely for anyone with T1 - try and stay somewhere between the high 4s and the low 7's for as long as you can, without having to DO anything is about the best sort of range I would suggest for a newly diagnosed Type 1. Eating always sends anyone's BG up - even non diabetics! so don't worry after meals if yours does and it isn't at all crucial at this stage to ensure that it doesn't. However when you test before the next meal you have, you'd like it to be nicely back at around the same number it was before you ate the previous one. That's round about what you are aiming for at the moment. To simplify it, which bless em, the NHS usually does - they usually suggest you can aim for between 5.0 and 7.5. How does that sound to you?
This is always tricky when you start because if your insulin producing cells haven't all kicked the bucket yet - they could decide to 'help out' at any stage and you never know when so you're absolutely bound to get 'glitches' at random times until they've stabilised. Nobody 'medical' is going to worry about this very much, so you needn't either - unless you're having constant problems with it for ages and ages. A few weeks or months is 'normal' - but personally, I never seemed to have this so perhaps mine all dropped dead at more or less the same time? Nobody knows or actually cares, 45 years later! LOL
Now I'm going to surprise you - some T1s still produce some insulin themselves - some, even after having it for 70 years! OK - it's nowhere near enough to do anything whatsoever useful to the body they are in - but the fact remains - some people do and some people don't. Nobody can tell upfront which sort you or I happen to be cos they haven't yet worked out how/why. And the vast majority of us will shuffle off this mortal coil without knowing. It isn't of any benefit to know which you are anyway - so it's absolutely nowt to worry about - just interesting is all! Fancy that. And then just forget about it!
Hope at least some of that, helps Craig.