- Messages
- 24
- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Insulin
I was diagnosed 3 weeks ago while in hospital with D2 so still a newbie, finding the whole thing with being diabetic daunting with my levels all over the place and trying to get some sort of normality back in my life. I'm a 58 year old retired British ex-pat living in rural area of Hungary. I was taking insulin amounts of 8am 12 units (R) Rapid Humelin, 12am 8 units(R), 5pm 8 units (R), 9pm 12 units (N) slow insulin. Yesterday visited local diabetic dr at town health centre first time, was very unhappy with the visit as i only got 10 minutes while the nurse connected my blood glucose monitor (Mery Pille) to some device in his office after measuring my blood glucose which was 12, wrote a paper so my GP could write prescriptions for 1 year, he answered very briefly 3 questions i could squeeze out, told me there were lots of patients and should come back in February. my week in hospital was great with very good care by the doctors and nurses, 7 types of examinations, a visit to the Emergency Diabetologia Dept were 2 lady doctors gave an extra 2 insulin pens, a whole wad of info and brochures on Diabetes 2, they walked me through the basics and I'm not fluent in Hungarian but grasped the most. My ward dr spoke English in the Internal Medicine Dept, so felt I was in very good hands after my GP called an ambulance the week before when i was at his surgery to give him the lab test results i made the day before. My blood glucose was 29. First 4 days in hospital it was 14 to 17, then guess they adjusted the meds, 11 to 13, then 6.5 to 9.3.
It's really difficult trying to get my head so many fluid factors into getting stable levels. The hospital dr wrote down a diet plan next to amounts and times of insulin injections, 180 grams total of carbohydrates per day, eating 6 times a day. I saw that's the weight of a large tube of toothpaste. A slice of brown bread is 50 grams, so wish there was just a few simple meals to find on the web showing me an example with figures what i can eat and how long that food takes to digest releasing glucose? This morning my monitor showed 1.5 mmol, so i took 2 sugar dextrose sweets to bump up my level. What would have happened if I hadn't woken up having 1.5, i mean how long does it take to fall into a coma? What are the dangerous numbers that i need seek immediate medical care, ie call an ambulance? I live alone, so this worries me. Grateful of any advice and tips.
It's really difficult trying to get my head so many fluid factors into getting stable levels. The hospital dr wrote down a diet plan next to amounts and times of insulin injections, 180 grams total of carbohydrates per day, eating 6 times a day. I saw that's the weight of a large tube of toothpaste. A slice of brown bread is 50 grams, so wish there was just a few simple meals to find on the web showing me an example with figures what i can eat and how long that food takes to digest releasing glucose? This morning my monitor showed 1.5 mmol, so i took 2 sugar dextrose sweets to bump up my level. What would have happened if I hadn't woken up having 1.5, i mean how long does it take to fall into a coma? What are the dangerous numbers that i need seek immediate medical care, ie call an ambulance? I live alone, so this worries me. Grateful of any advice and tips.