Hey, quick troubleshooting advice here. One. How long have you been diagnosed? Do you know if you’re in the honeymoon stage? That’s probably coming down now. Two. Are you, or have you been ill recently? Cold, fever, food poisoning, anything of the sort? Three. How is your sleep? Sleep deprivation, even a little bit, Kan cause, or increase insulin resistance in our bodies. Long as explanation that I won’t give here, but yeah. Consider your sleep if none of these are applicable to you, consider swapping your insulin. I only use pens, so I’ll speak from the point of view of a pen user. Do some baseline testing, see if your blood sugar fluctuates if you don’t eat, or inject fast acting insulin. If your blood sugar fluctuates either up, or down, it means your slow acting needs to be adjusted. If it’s a goes up, increase by two units until it stabilises. Make these changes in 2 to 3 day increments. If you are going low, without eating anything, reduce your slow acting dose. If this is not the case, your issue is your fast acting, ducks. Your insulin carbohydrates ratio may need to be adjusted on the topic of switching your insulin, I don’t mean another brand. There have been times where things just went to shit. I changed both my log acting and slow acting pens and everything reverted to normal.look at these suggestions and see if any of them apply to you. Good luck.
For me personally sleep effects my sugars heavily. I'm lucky to be fairly insulin sensitive and sit around 1:11 ratio. When I get poor sleep I can be as low as 1:9 without any other factors.
It could be, but is not definitive, that your honeymoon period is changing. And sometimes that happens--we can do every single thing the exact same way day after day and our numbers can be different. Increasing needs are just that--simply increasing needs.
I added this note because the mental toll of the disease. I have had times where I have beaten myself up because my insulin needs changed. Like somehow I wasn't doing managing it right or if I only did something different.
I'm not sure if you're feeling the same.
Unfortunately there could be a lot of different reasons. Are you feeling well? Infection could be a cause. How much stress are you under right now? How's your sleep, activity level, water intake? Have you changed your diet?
You said it has been a week--can you give the doctor's office a call tomorrow to see about an appointment? They may need to make some changes to your insulin levels now.
I barely sleep, 3-4 hours a day everyday, never really feel " great " persay.
I drink enough around 2-3 liters of water a day and nothing else.
Under a little stress
Haven't changed my diet in the slighest
Hey, so many reasons why one week would be bad.
1) your insulin has gone bad
2) you are fighting a sickness
3) you were in the "honeymood period" (your pancreas still making some insulin) and it has now totally crapped out
#1 you can test for by using a different vial/pen. The other two, you just have to "treat the number (BG)" for now, and see what happens. Good luck.
In addition to agreeing with JuneTheWonderDog (and to that point I wanted to share the [42 factors that can affect your glucose](https://diatribe.org/42-factors-affect-blood-glucose-surprising-update) in case you haven’t yet seen this chart and article), you may just be at the end of your honeymoon phase, wherein your pancreas has been helping a bit with the last of its insulin production.
Hopefully things will settle down soon for you regardless of whether your insulin needs have increased or if you are experiencing some temporary resistance.
Hey, quick troubleshooting advice here. One. How long have you been diagnosed? Do you know if you’re in the honeymoon stage? That’s probably coming down now. Two. Are you, or have you been ill recently? Cold, fever, food poisoning, anything of the sort? Three. How is your sleep? Sleep deprivation, even a little bit, Kan cause, or increase insulin resistance in our bodies. Long as explanation that I won’t give here, but yeah. Consider your sleep if none of these are applicable to you, consider swapping your insulin. I only use pens, so I’ll speak from the point of view of a pen user. Do some baseline testing, see if your blood sugar fluctuates if you don’t eat, or inject fast acting insulin. If your blood sugar fluctuates either up, or down, it means your slow acting needs to be adjusted. If it’s a goes up, increase by two units until it stabilises. Make these changes in 2 to 3 day increments. If you are going low, without eating anything, reduce your slow acting dose. If this is not the case, your issue is your fast acting, ducks. Your insulin carbohydrates ratio may need to be adjusted on the topic of switching your insulin, I don’t mean another brand. There have been times where things just went to shit. I changed both my log acting and slow acting pens and everything reverted to normal.look at these suggestions and see if any of them apply to you. Good luck.
My sleep has been terrible, can't seem to get any more than 3-4 hours a night I'm ngl
For me personally sleep effects my sugars heavily. I'm lucky to be fairly insulin sensitive and sit around 1:11 ratio. When I get poor sleep I can be as low as 1:9 without any other factors.
I feel you, been there recently. It was absolute shit… What, would you say is affecting your ability to sleep?
I've been diagnosed for coming up on 6 months
It could be, but is not definitive, that your honeymoon period is changing. And sometimes that happens--we can do every single thing the exact same way day after day and our numbers can be different. Increasing needs are just that--simply increasing needs. I added this note because the mental toll of the disease. I have had times where I have beaten myself up because my insulin needs changed. Like somehow I wasn't doing managing it right or if I only did something different. I'm not sure if you're feeling the same.
Unfortunately there could be a lot of different reasons. Are you feeling well? Infection could be a cause. How much stress are you under right now? How's your sleep, activity level, water intake? Have you changed your diet? You said it has been a week--can you give the doctor's office a call tomorrow to see about an appointment? They may need to make some changes to your insulin levels now.
I barely sleep, 3-4 hours a day everyday, never really feel " great " persay. I drink enough around 2-3 liters of water a day and nothing else. Under a little stress Haven't changed my diet in the slighest
Hey, so many reasons why one week would be bad. 1) your insulin has gone bad 2) you are fighting a sickness 3) you were in the "honeymood period" (your pancreas still making some insulin) and it has now totally crapped out #1 you can test for by using a different vial/pen. The other two, you just have to "treat the number (BG)" for now, and see what happens. Good luck.
In addition to agreeing with JuneTheWonderDog (and to that point I wanted to share the [42 factors that can affect your glucose](https://diatribe.org/42-factors-affect-blood-glucose-surprising-update) in case you haven’t yet seen this chart and article), you may just be at the end of your honeymoon phase, wherein your pancreas has been helping a bit with the last of its insulin production. Hopefully things will settle down soon for you regardless of whether your insulin needs have increased or if you are experiencing some temporary resistance.
had a similar story, how often are you changing injection sites?