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Hi,
Long story short, I had covid (delta) which was fairly mild (mostly had a rapid heart beat). Got over that within a week but noticed glucose was running high (I was on Metformin for 10 years, as well as glicazide and sitagliptin). Was referred to hospital where they did ketones and glucose and was borderline ketoacidosis. They took me off Metformin immediately and put me on 12 units of Lantus insulin (slow release, one injection in the morning).
Well, since then my blood glucose has been a bit all over the place really. I wake up with 7-11 blood glucose, eat breakfast and it for the most part drops to 5.5-8 on average before midday (although sometimes up to 12, but not often). After dinner later in the evening it sits around 8-9 2 hours after a meal. I typically go out and pace walk for an hour (4 miles) per day.
The thing is, during this whole experimentation stage I have been eating the same thing everyday with only 20-30g of carbs or so per day. I was told that I needed to eat more carbs as I was on a ketogenic diet beforehand and weigh 11 stone/72 kilos. I noticed that on the day I was really stressed, the numbers were in the 10's throughout that day.
Any ideas, or do I just need to wait for the community diabetic nurses to get back to me to look at the insulin dose? Thank you.
Long story short, I had covid (delta) which was fairly mild (mostly had a rapid heart beat). Got over that within a week but noticed glucose was running high (I was on Metformin for 10 years, as well as glicazide and sitagliptin). Was referred to hospital where they did ketones and glucose and was borderline ketoacidosis. They took me off Metformin immediately and put me on 12 units of Lantus insulin (slow release, one injection in the morning).
Well, since then my blood glucose has been a bit all over the place really. I wake up with 7-11 blood glucose, eat breakfast and it for the most part drops to 5.5-8 on average before midday (although sometimes up to 12, but not often). After dinner later in the evening it sits around 8-9 2 hours after a meal. I typically go out and pace walk for an hour (4 miles) per day.
The thing is, during this whole experimentation stage I have been eating the same thing everyday with only 20-30g of carbs or so per day. I was told that I needed to eat more carbs as I was on a ketogenic diet beforehand and weigh 11 stone/72 kilos. I noticed that on the day I was really stressed, the numbers were in the 10's throughout that day.
Any ideas, or do I just need to wait for the community diabetic nurses to get back to me to look at the insulin dose? Thank you.