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10-23-2006, 05:00 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: The mighty shire. England
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| |  honey moon period..months or years?
How long can the honey moon period last. Has any one experienced it lasting a few years?
My blood sugar levels have just gone totally whacko with no explanation at all. I'm not ill, haven't changed my diet at all...nothing that I can think of. Luckilly going to see the doctor in the next few days anyway. But I'm just SOOooooo.... tired constantly and thirsty, i was 18.8 last night and my meter beeped at me like crazy warning me I was high. I took a shot and this morning I was down a bit but back to 17.5 (mmol/l) in class at 11:30 yawning like some lazy slob.
I havn't had a full diabetes check up at a diabetes centre in ages, had an at the begining of october apointment which I made a WHOLE YEAR ago, and the nurse rang to say my docotr had cancelled it two days before! Can't wait to find out why.
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10-23-2006, 05:05 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Cincinnati, OH
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| | | Numbers do change over time and you may be starting to get a cold. Remember, the average cold has already peaked before you even sense symptons. So that could be one issue that is going on.
The other could jsut be plain bad math. I've had those before.
Or lastly that I can think of is your insulin may have gone bad. Very very rare, but can happen, especially with Lantus.
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10-23-2006, 05:10 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Lower Templestowe, Melbourne, Australia
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| | | I dunno LauRa... I havent (personally) heard of a honeymoon lasting that long, but I guess its possible...
Is it possible you could have some sort of underlying infection at all, or have you changed your regime at all? Is your insulin in date? Have you changed your long-acting cartridge lately??
Just trying to think of other causes for ur bg going ballistic...
Good luck at the drs! Hope they fix ya!
Kit
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10-23-2006, 05:11 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: The mighty shire. England
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| | | I do have a tickly throaty cough.. usually the sign of a cold coming I guess. But my numbers seem a bit 'too' high for it to be that.
I think my levemir is fine... but saying that I do recall a few people generally experiencing this with levemir... I've been on it about 3 years though!
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10-23-2006, 05:12 AM
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| | oops! I wasnt copying u Jedi, I just took a loooong time to type that message... I'm easily distracted... Biggest Loser is on 
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10-23-2006, 05:47 AM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Orlando, FL
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| | | My honeymoon period lasted about 4 years... |
10-23-2006, 07:06 AM
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| | | Years, me yes. I was first diagnosed as Type 1 and was on insulin for 10 days and had all kinds of problems with lows. Kept having to reduce and reduce the amounts and by day 10 they took me off of it. Said I was likely in a honeymoon period. THe diabetic educator would not tell me how long this would last. after 3 weeks, she said she had never seen one go that long before. it lasted 7 years with diet, supplements and moderate exersize.
Years are possible, although rare likely. My needs seem to change with the seasons. I just had a wild week myself. I've only been on Lantus/humalog for a little over a year, though.
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10-23-2006, 09:58 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: San Jose, CA
Posts: 3,358
| | | Mine lasted just about 2 months, at age 31, after a delayed DX that put me on insulin for a few months, then off for 2, and now on for the last 28 years and counting. |
10-23-2006, 10:05 AM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern USA
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| | | I don't know exactly, but my honeymoon lasted between 11/2 to 2 years. I was on oral meds for the first 8 months, then I went off of the deep end and quit taking them for about another 8 months, and by the time I went back to the doc my pancreas had kicked the bucket completely. |
10-23-2006, 02:27 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: NYC
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| | | My honeymoon lasted 3 years. Everytime I saw my endo she would warn me that it would end soon, but it just kept going and going like the energizer bunny. I did still need insulin during that time though - just smaller doses.
It all came to an abrupt end this year though and my insulin needs have increased (tripled), although they are still quite small compared to the average (have been told that I may be insulin sensitive - whatever that means).
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10-23-2006, 03:01 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: New Hampshire
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| | | Like everyone else, heres my timeline. It may help you out.
12/5/06 diagnosed
12/14/06 bs in control. insulin needs drop from 40 to 20 units TDD
12/27/06 drops from 20 units to 10 units TDD
8 months goes by...
8/21/06 insulin needs increase from 10 to 15 units TDD
10/23/06 insulin needs increase from 15 to 20 units TDD.
My calculated TDD should be around 54 units with honeymoon neglected.
I believe if honeymooning was graphed as a function of time it would be bell shaped, skewed to the left. So inherently there will be a good amount of time variation between the actual ending period of the honeymoon. ( basicly is hard to place it at a point) But knowing its a bell shaped curve you could actually graph it and come up with a relativly accuate timeframe.
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10-23-2006, 05:40 PM
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| | | I've heard it can lasts months, or years depending on how soon the diabetes was caught and how good control was throughout. |
10-23-2006, 07:30 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Nevada, USA
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| | | My honeymoon lasted 3 years. I was dx'd T1 at age 16. Was controlled by diet and small amounts of insulin until I was 19. I had rebelled and had stopped taking my insulin or checking my bg... ended up in DKA, what a lovely thing...
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10-23-2006, 07:54 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Ottawa, Canada
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| | | I'm almost at a year now, it was caught fairly early on (only lost 10 pounds before I got checked out) and I pushed the docs to get on insulin early to hopefully prolong the honeymoon since insulin was inevitable.
TDD is still about 15 units (same as when I started), control remains tight with A1C's at 5 to 6. A week without some decent cardio or letting the Levemir get too hot while camping whatever and the numbers crawl up in the double digits pretty quickly....
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10-23-2006, 10:00 PM
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| | | I started insulin pretty early...even before my bs was consistantly high without it. I also was diagnosed early...my bs was only 175 when it was caught. I used small amounts of insulin on mdi at first, then moved quickly to pumping and use more regular amounts. I am still in a honeymooning type phase, but seem to be very much so insulin dependent now. I feel my year of excellent control is due to early detection and early tight control. |
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