Well it's been exactually 30 days since diagnosis.

[lelvins]

And I've encountered something odd.

4 days ago I found I only needed 1 injection because my levels were all within range after meals. Originally I was taking 15 units of novolog with each meal but now because my levels are in the 80's I'm afraid to take more then 5 with a meal, And found that day 5units was enough to cover the intake.

A great example would be Sunday. Jeep club summer picknic with a BBQ theme. Had 2 BBQ pork sandwiches, 2 BBQ beef sandwiches, 2 sides of cowlslaw, 2 sides of potato salad, even a sliver from a brownie (which i tasted and didn't care for anyway) I took 10 units with it figuring the BBQ would play havoc with the bs but 2 hours later my bs was 79.

For the last few days I've been taking Bob Barefoots Coral Calcium with my meals also. I have more energy, and pretty much do not need much novolog if any thru out my day until dinner time which 5 - 10 units covers depending on what i'm eating.

:confused:

I'm guessing the doctor was right & wrong at this point. He said I'd be using alot of insulin for along time. But now I'm using 1/3 or somethimes less during my day.

[Tony]

In another thread you said you Gained back (mainly water muscle mass).

More muscle burns the sugar off and would need less insulin. And you could be eating alot better since dxd.

[MacnReef]

Tony is right!

But also, you may be going thru what they call a "honeymoon phase". After I was dxd, there was a week that I took zero insulin and my sugar stayed in perfect range. It was weird, I thought I had been cured but my doctor told me to keep tabs on it. Then one day I was eating lunch and it felt like my sugar was rising, I checked it and it was around 170...then went over 200. Ofcourse I was upset but oh well...it was nice for the week.

[Mick]

MacnReef is exactly right--this "honeymoon" period is very common in newly diagnosed type 1s. It means that not quite all of the insulin-producing beta-cells in your pancreas are destroyed, and after your sugars got stablized thru injections, the remaining beta-cells started to function once again. The auto-immune reaction which attacked your beta-cells in the first place will soon be activated, and either bit by bit or all of a sudden, insulin production will drop off. This may occur several times over months or even a year--insulin production starts back up for a while, you need less (or no) injected insulin, then it stops and more injected insulin is needed again. The only way to deal with this stop/start insulin thing is to keep very close watch on your sugars and play it by ear--there will be no predicting this. It sounds good, but in fact can turn out to be very annoying in it's unpredictability.

Michael type 1 since 1965