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07-08-2008, 06:33 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Virginia Beach, VA
Posts: 31
| | | Hi there
Diagnosed type1 three weeks ago, hospitalized for a week, severely malnourished, Drs said my body was eating itself! Numbers were to high to read! I have been blessed with a incredible Endo although I have learned more here reading than from him.
I am 38, own my own business and very active. I have accepted that I have diabetes but diabetes doesn't have me. My fingers, legs, butt and stomach are so sore, my numbers are all over the place trying to figure this out, I can't sleep, have weird dreams and have gained 10 pounds in 3 weeks...OUCH!!! I am afraid to be alone (newly single to, WTH?)
I am grateful to have found this site, and every time I give myself a shot, I thank god there is a shot to take!      |
07-08-2008, 06:37 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,830
| | | Welcome.
You'll settle in just fine. Get to work on some basal testing. That's the key to it all. |
07-08-2008, 06:45 PM
| | Junior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Virginia Beach, VA
Posts: 31
| | | Thank you for the welcome,
I have so many questions and I am lacking the knowledge I need to gain control. Great Endo, but talks a language I have never spoken... DIABETES (A1c, corrections, experimenting with foods I eat, 3 meals a day and snacks? etc.) I barely ate before, now starving!
Currently has me taking 5 units novolog before meals and 24 units levimire before bed, I am 110 pounds now, keep gaing weight by the minute! Scared to do my hot yoga and don't know what correcting is all about. |
07-08-2008, 07:15 PM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 2,087
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Originally Posted by tkidwell1  ... I barely ate before, now starving!
Currently has me taking 5 units novolog before meals and 24 units levimire before bed, ... | You should be eating as much as you need to feel satisfied. And you titrate the insulin dosage upwards to the point where it keeps your blood sugar down in the target range. There is no need to go hungry.
Welcome to the forums  .
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In my humble opinion  
Type1 since 1977
MDI using Lantus, Novorapid and Actrapid
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07-08-2008, 07:30 PM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Rothesay, New Brunswick Canada, eh
Posts: 6,830
| | BTW, in medicine, titration is the process of gradually adjusting the dose of a medication until the desired effect is achieved. Titration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
What I do is stick with a fixed meal each day and adjust my insulin until it's stable. I then have an insulin:carb ratio that I can match to most carbohyrates. Say I take 5 units for 50g of carbs, I now have a 1:10 ratio. If I ate 85g of carbs, I would then take 8.5units. We can have different ratios for different times of the day.
Your basal dosage (Levemir) also needs to be close for this process to work right. They (Drs) generally try for low waking numbers. If they are fine, they assume the full day is. It never perfectly works that way though. Some of us have very up and down basal patterns while others are close to flat. Nobody is perfectly flat.
Where you are so new, you should work with your endo and/or diabetes educator to get up to speed on carb counting and adjusting. You should also get some basic classes. |
07-08-2008, 08:52 PM
|  | Junior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Utah
Posts: 74
| | hey! welcome to the forum, i'm new to it as well. I just wanted to say not to worry about the weight-gain thing... i went through exactly the same thing you did when i was diagnosed last year (hospitalized for 1 1/2 weeks, malnurished, dehydrated, couldn't keep food down, and my body too was eating itslef... ). After I got out, I gained back the 30 pounds i had lost and was in the same boat you're in. but don't worry, everything gets better with time! just be careful with those blood sugars! |
07-09-2008, 04:15 AM
|  | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2006
Posts: 1,051
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Originally Posted by tkidwell1 Thank you for the welcome,
I have so many questions and I am lacking the knowledge I need to gain control. Great Endo, but talks a language I have never spoken... DIABETES (A1c, corrections, experimenting with foods I eat, 3 meals a day and snacks? etc.) I barely ate before, now starving!
Currently has me taking 5 units novolog before meals and 24 units levimire before bed, I am 110 pounds now, keep gaing weight by the minute! Scared to do my hot yoga and don't know what correcting is all about. | Get the book Think Like a Pancreas by Gary Scheiner, he covers all that stuff and his explanations should help you greatly in making sense of the language and principles being used. |
07-09-2008, 05:54 AM
| | Senior Member
I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Rhode Island
Posts: 4,687
| | | Welcome to the forum. It may help if you attend a few diabetes education classes.
Karen |
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