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Will I be grazing my way through the second trimester?

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Evergreen

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Type 1.5 LADA
Not sure why I’m posting really! But I’m having a bit of a bad day.

I’ve been having this strange thing where overnight my levels are fine (luckily!) but during the day I feel im constantly grazing to not have a low. I’m so fed up with it. Blamed my new pump at first, but as it regularly suspends insulin for 3+ hours I don’t think it’s that.

I’ve been just telling myself it won’t last forever, but I’ve woken up with a banging headache today that paracetamol does not touch. It’s making me feel sick so the thought of grazing to keep my blood sugars up is not appealing and it’s making me miserable.

Again not sure what I want with this really, it’s just been a bit of a sad day!
 
I had a spell like that @Evergreen I ate things I fancied that were highish carbs. I remember going through a phase of cake bars. Obviously, my meals were healthy but some days I just ate cakes, cereal bars, biscuits, etc, because they were easier to stomach. At one point I reduced my basal for some of the day and that helped.

For the headache, make sure you’re not dehydrated and try a gentle scalp massage. I hope tomorrow is a better day x
 
Evergreen said:
Not sure why I’m posting really! But I’m having a bit of a bad day.

I’ve been having this strange thing where overnight my levels are fine (luckily!) but during the day I feel im constantly grazing to not have a low. I’m so fed up with it. Blamed my new pump at first, but as it regularly suspends insulin for 3+ hours I don’t think it’s that.

I’ve been just telling myself it won’t last forever, but I’ve woken up with a banging headache today that paracetamol does not touch. It’s making me feel sick so the thought of grazing to keep my blood sugars up is not appealing and it’s making me miserable.

Again not sure what I want with this really, it’s just been a bit of a sad day!
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How many weeks pregnant are you?

I'm just wondering if you maybe need the headache checked? Hormonal headaches are very much a (nasty but benign thing) but a headache that won't shift with pain relief would probably benefit from being reviewed through your hospital's assessment unit - just to rule out any blood pressure issues.
 
Thank you @Inka and @BobbleHat!

I’m hopeful today is a better day! I tend to suffer with hormonal headaches/migraines anyway and I think this was one as well. Blood pressure did cross my mind and I’m quite worried about developing pre-eclampsia (for no real reason, just anxiety).

I’m nearly 15 weeks, so like to think it’s unlikely but if it would have continued today I would have contacted my team.

The lows are usually fine to deal with, but when feeling sick it’s a bit c**p. The problem with a HCL (and I love being on one in general), is that you can’t just eat and give yourself reduced insulin as the pump will just overcompensate and drive you low again.

I did end up eating some more fatty and protein based things which help and my levels through the night last night have been the best I’ve ever seen them. Steady at 4.5 mmol throughout the night! I honestly wouldn’t know what to do without the tech!

Overall I’m hoping today will be a better day and it was just a blip yesterday! Hope you all enjoy your Sundays 🙂
 
@Evergreen - that is one brilliant feature of the Ypsopump. When you go hypo and want to correct that but not risk the closed loop algorithm spot the carbs and compensate for them and make it worse, there's an 'Add meal' feature where there's a 'Hypo treatment' setting. you click that, then tell it how many grams of carb - and it will then ignore those carbs!
 
trophywench said:
@Evergreen - that is one brilliant feature of the Ypsopump. When you go hypo and want to correct that but not risk the closed loop algorithm spot the carbs and compensate for them and make it worse, there's an 'Add meal' feature where there's a 'Hypo treatment' setting. you click that, then tell it how many grams of carb - and it will then ignore those carbs!
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Perfect, that’s what’s I been doing. Been mainly trying to prevent hypos and am a little confused whether to put food through the hypo treatment or just add meal. What do you tend to do?
 
Mmmmm - well, frankly I usually just lie to CamAPS since once I tell it it's hypo treatment, it then doesn't seem to want to try and keep my BG at a sensible level for 'many hours'. I usually reduce the carbs by 50% for the upfront part of the bolus and then try and remember to check after 2 hours- ish to see what's happening, cos actually the algorithm does kick in and either reduce, increase or stop the insulin flow. This being far more important for yourself right now than it ever is for me - No Way Josefina do I think you should try that. It's not at all 'correct' whether you're pregnant or not and I've simply done it to try and get round being hypo every time not long after I've eaten it if I eat a meal that 'pizza effect' applies to. In fact any food that has butter on it or fat on it eg a fruit scone, or fish, or chips, or roast spuds or or or. This is batty but anyway it avoids the ruddy hypos.
 
yes, its hard isn't it! I have done a mix of putting in as hypo treatment when its 5 and trending down or below 4.5 and when its above that but I know it will go down or I am going for a walk or something, I have been putting it in as a meal or snack. It's not perfect, but it kept me from hypoing!

I just hope I am not teaching the algorithm the wrong things...
 
How are you getting on?
I just ate and ate and ate when I was pregnant otherwise I would go low, and then I was sick. I found chewing sweets or sipping sugary juice / fruit juice helped when I couldn't eat any more. That child just drained me.
And things like sugar in decaf tea 😱 so gross, turns my stomach now.
 
I am ok. Thank you for asking @PhoebeC

I had a low last night, but easily fixed and the rest of the night has been ok. Sadly the headache is back. It went away yesterday, but seems to be back today. I rang MAC who said they weren't worried, which is good. I just really hope it is some kind of virus and not the early start of preeclampsia.
 
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