Hello everyone I apologize for the length of this post and also I know my english isn't perfect as I am finnish. I've been type 1 diabetic since I was 4 years old and without giving my exact age I'll say I've had it over 20 years now.
I admit my lifestyle and how I eat are not something to brag about. I'm kind of chubby, I usually eat once or twice a day and I mostly sit during the day allthough I've been doing some cycling and basic exercise at home. Atleast I can say that I almost never have sugar but when I do eat I tend to have too much carbs. 100 to 150 carbs is something quite usual for me on my big meal of the day. I know it's alot and the thing is I was "fine" before but now it's gotten impossible to control.
I'm currently on 38 units of Tresiba a day and 1,5 units of novorapid/10g carbs. My current problem is that it feels like sometimes the fast acting insulin works just fine and sometimes it doesn't seem to do anything! Also just in the past year I stopped waking up to lows (I'm using a libre so I can see it). I usually eat my meal of the day couple of hours after I get home so around 6. Afterwards I need to keep checking my bg for hours and hours to make sure the insulin is actually doing anything and I'll try to inject more so my bg wouldn't get so high and so I could finally go to bed. Doing this resulted in me overcorrecting because I was tired and I just wanted to sleep and then I could see a few times the next day that I had been extremely low during sleep and I didn't wake up to it.
What happened yesterday/today is what made me make this post. I ate food yesterday around 7pm. My bg was 145, carbs were 140g and I used 25 units for it (more than what the doctors have told me because I knew it's just not enough). 9pm I was at 250, 10 pm I was at 290 and I took 10 units more, midnight i was 325 and I decided to go for a walk so maybe that would help. Nope no change and by 2 am I was at 360 and I took another 10 of insulin. Finally bg is going down but now I need to monitor it so I don't go low, but hey this is one of those even weirder days. 5am comes and now bg starts levelling out at 300 and I think surely after so much insulin it'll start going down again but no, after an hour I take another 5 and sure enough it starts going down again. It keeps going down untill 9am and then it levels out at a nice 125. So by now I had been awake all night watching my blood sugar and in total I had taken over double the dose of insulin than what my doctor said I should be taking. I guess I need to stay up all day now without sleep because I have places to be monday.
Just going to sleep while blood sugar is high is something I don't consider an option, it destroys the quality of sleep and you feel like shit the next day. I also seriously would rather not eat more often like so many tend to recommend, I just don't feel like eating most of the day untill I'm actually hungry. Has anyone here had similiar problems? I'm thinking I need to start cutting out most of the pasta, rice, potatoes and bread which are the most common sources of carbs for me. It would honestly also be great to hear if there are others like me and what they've done to fix the problem... Maybe even recipes or meal plans or something. Thanks if you read it all hehe.
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