BG Levels creeping up

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Louise1988 DAFNE Graduate
South West Essex PCT
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Looking for some advice regarding my ratio and insulin regime. For the past 4 months, I have been suffering from constant hypos. This hasn't been helped by my hypo unawareness. Last Monday, I had to fast for 26 hours, due to medical investigations.

I don't know if it's related, but since last Tuesday, the day after my investigations, I've noticed my bg levels have been creeping up. Not stupidly high, but high enough for me to wonder what I need to do to fix things. I was ill for a few days, with a bug, but this ended on Sunday.

I'm on 7 units of Levemir, and then QA Novorapid, which are given with ratios 1:1 for breakfast & lunch, and 1:1.5 for dinner.

At least this means I'll start to feel my hypos (hopefully)! But can anyone give any suggestions to get my levels back within DAFNE guidelines?

Garry DAFNE Graduate
North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
328 posts

Don't worry about your results. They are fine...they are red at the minute, but so what. We are looking for long term control within range. Look to the top right of your diary and on screen you will see BG averages for 7, 14, 30 and 90 days. I find these a big help combined with the content of the Summary View which is hyperlinked at the very top of your diary. Good stuff for you to ponder.
Will take you a long time at somewhat elevated BGs to get your hypo awareness back. It will not happen overnight!
Last time With consultant guidance and review, I reset my body and it took 3 months and albeit that we are all different...I can't imagine that a consultant would want to consider short term HBa1c changes.
Stick with it. Your bloods will still be affected during recovery from illness and may take some time to retrun to normal.
Regards
Garry