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My daughter is in her honeymoon period and her bgs remain near normal. She has not had any low blood sugars under 60. What will happen to her levels once the honeymoon is over? Will she experience more lows?
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Gary Scheiner says
Her blood glucose will become much more varied once she is out of the honeymoon. Now, she is taking less insulin than she truly needs, since her pancreas is able to supplement with insulin on its own. When she is on larger doses and her pancreas cannot "buffer" rises and falls by chaning its level of insulin secretion, she will be susceptible to more highs and lows.
Alicia H. McAuliffe-Fogarty says
Everyone is different, but what you will see is an increased insulin requirement to keep her BG in the target range. And, as you increase her insulin to cover higher BGs you may get some lows.
Ginger Vieira says
As she gets out of that honeymoon phase where her body is still making someone insulin...and she transitions to the point where her body makes NO insulin, she is going to experience more high blood sugars. That means she's going to work with her doctor to increase her insulin doses. The more insulin we take, the more risk there are for lows, but it's really the overall balancing act that will be your biggest concern.
The biggest thing to know is that throughout your daugher's entire life, her insulin needs are going to fluctuate based on age, activity, weight, stress, etc. So her goal is going to be to learn how to adapt to those changes and make adjustments in her insulin regimen. My book discusses these changes and how to go about self-adjusting and studying your own blood sugars, Your Diabetes Science Experiment in the PDK resource section.
Good luck! Remember, deep breaths! Nobody does this disease perfectly.
