Hello.
My name is Carlos.I am new in the forum.I am 31 years old.I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes two years ago and since then I am in treatment with Lantus and Novorapid.
I am on a honeymoon, according to my endocrine.I don't have a strict diet.As of everything, I have only eliminated everything that contains excessive amounts of sugar (soft drinks, pastries, etc.), which before having diabetes fed me up.
My diet is as follows:
At breakfast, I usually have coffee with milk and 2 or 3 portions of sugarless chocolate.I can take it when I wake up or mid -morning (at work) or twice, in no case do I punctuate for this breakfast.Once, if I get up hungry and with enough time, I accompany coffee with one or two sugar -free muffins (depending on the weight) with sugarless jam, for which I punctuate 3 or 4 novorapid units.My glycemias throughout the morning never exceed 140, normal after coffee and chocolate, 100-130, but it goes down to 70-80.
I do not usually lunch or snack, at most some coffee with milk.My next meal is dinner, the only fixed meal I make up to date, in which 6-8 novorapid units, depending on what I will eat.At that time I sulked the lantus too, 18 units.At dinner I do not weight food, such as what there is, without happening, but without being hungry.The rice tried to avoid it, it has given me the occasional climb.
My ease glycemia and before meals are usually between 70-100.After meals between 90-150.More than 170 is very rare.Only 4 or 5 times in these two years I have exceeded 200, being my record 232. However, the times that has risen me so much there has been no apparent cause.What I do, if I see that I have so much (more than 170) is to prick an extra unit.
The glycosilada has given me 4 and peak in the two analytics that I have done.
Shortly after debuting my endocrine told me that I was with the honeymoon, and today insists that this is the reason why my glycemia are controlled.But it seems to me that this is too long for a honeymoon, I don't know, what do you think?Reading I discovered that there is a lada or 1.5 diabetes that puts me something more with my case, although I am not entirely safe.
Anyway, I know this will not last forever.Among the things my endocrine told me to see my latest analytics, the one that worried me most is that my ability to produce insulin is practically null .And lately I have noticed that I need to prick a little more and that sugar goes up to me after meals.Although not always.
What I would like to know is if there are ways to preserve beta cells that may be as long as possible.For example, I have read in the forum and on the network, that starting insulin therapy since the diagnosis of diabetes is a way of preserving them.That is, but surely there are many more guidelines that I do not know.Any information or experience that you have in this sense I will thank you to comment.
Greetings.