Diabetics: If you take your medications properly, how often do you have low bloo!
Question: I do what I am supposed to but have been having a lot of lows lately. I am going to the doctor for a check up next week but I wanted an idea of if this was normal or not.
Answers: I do what I am supposed to but have been having a lot of lows lately. I am going to the doctor for a check up next week but I wanted an idea of if this was normal or not.
It is tricky. I have been a type one diabetic since age five. I am now 25, and I run more low than I do high. The thing is that I am on a sliding insulin dosage, I take what I need for what I eat and what activity I do. However, even when I take the insulin amount that I am suppose to I have those horrible lows. What we can't see is how our bodies work on the inside. Yes diabetes means that for most part your pancreas is not working, not producing any or enough insulin to maintain your bloodsugar. However, it is not unlikely that at certain points your pancreas kicks in for a bit giving you that extra amount of insulin it is producing when you don't know it or expect it and making your fall low. Since you can't predict when your organ will decide to kick in, you are left in a wide open field, you do everything right, but sometimes your body will kick in with no explanation. You can try to narrow it down more. I have extreme lows and it seems my pancreas kicks in two weeks before my period comes on, blame it on whatever, but I have kept careful track and can now somewhat predict what could happen. The doctors can be some help, but since they have no idea about your body-as only you do-they may make suggestions that could kill you. I suggest that you pay attention to your body and how you feel especially close for one month, chart when you are getting the lows, and try to see if there is a pattern to it. It may take while, but no one knows your body better than you. There is also a new instrument that you can ask your doc about. You attach this dime sized thing to the fatty tissue on your hip and it records your bloodsugars for up to a week every five minutes, this may help tell you when your insulin is taking effect and can help to nail down things you may want to do differently.
Currently I am 16 week pregnant and with type one diabetes the doctors went nuts with trying to control my sugars-which were perfect to start-and almost killed me on several occasions with low bloodsugars based on insulin dosage they suggested. I finally stopped listening to them and started listening to my body. I am doing perfect because I have been dealing with this for 20 years, and I know my body best. This doesn't mean you can't consider the docs recommendations, but for your own safety listen to your body.
Hope this helps.
Maybe your meds need adjusted. Our bodies change from time to time. Til you get to the doctor, try eating snacks with carbs in them.
Ideally you shouldn't have any lows unless you are very brittle. This may require a downward adjustment of your medications of alteration in your diet or both. You should strive to have no lows.
Balance meds taken with food eaten, get a pill splitter. Keep granola bars handy.
I'm not diabetic but I know someone who does. Yes, it is normal even if you have taken your insilent shots. A friend of mine is diabetic and he thought he had taken his shot but one day at church his blood level dropped so low that my husband had him drink a Coke to get it back up. He just didn't look right, so my husband took command and had ppl do certain things, but my friend is married to a good friend of mine and he seems to be doing pretty good.
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