Hello everyone,
Things have taken a rather bizarre turn and I'm sure you will be interested to hear the story. I am still in the hospital. I don't have appendicitis according to ultrasound scans and the pain has gradually dissipated. However, while I was here I kept collapsing with low blood sugar. As soon as the IV glucose was removed, my blood sugar became horribly erratic and it is still like this.
A nasty surgeon told me that I had to eat the high carb hospital food; end of story as far as he is concerned. Another surgeon then took over and said he thought it was likely all psychological and was holding my hand and leading me around the ward like some small child. He told me if I acted normal, I would become normal. He said carbs had never caused low blood sugar. I brought up my mixed meal tolerance test showing a drop to 2.6, but he had nothing to say about that.
For ages, they accused me of injecting the insulin of an unknown diabetic relative that doesn't actually exist. They also said that I must be vomiting secretly or that I have an eating disorder or taking illicit drugs in the shower. They told me I could only go to the toilet in a wheelchair and had to leave the door unlocked with a staff member listening outside. It goes without saying that none of this is true, but both myself and my mother have been horribly under suspicion by nurses and doctors for DAYS.
Eventually I lost the plot after days of this treatment and ran into the corridor in tears, collapsing in a heap on the floor. I found a very nice recently qualified junior doctor who spoke to me like a real person and was more competent than all the senior surgeons combined. He arranged for 2 hourly blood glucose tests, moving to one hourly if below 5.0. Unfortunately this means I've been having blood glucose tests over 12 times every 24 hours, day and night. My fingertips have become so tough that they are struggling to get into them any more.
The next morning, a new team of surgeons came to see me along with a psychiatrist. The told me that because I have eaten such a low carb diet, I have created a situation where my body finds it hard to tolerate eating carbs at all. They said I was experiencing starvation due to my keto diet and low body weight. Basically, I was slowly dying of starvation while eating 3,000 calories of fat a day. They said I was at risk of re-feeding syndrome.
They also randomly found that my LDL cholesterol was 11.4 (I'm 23 & underweight!) so I have now been told I've got to eat a low fat, high carb diet. Whenever I eat the carbs, I feel really dizzy and begin to get completely delirious. Yesterday I collapsed in the hospital corridor, and a porter had to bring me back in a wheelchair. They told me that my white blood cell count was extremely high and one doctor wanted to start me on IV antibiotics but He wasn't entirely sure what for, so I didn't think that was a good idea.
For some reason, they are convinced that my blood sugar drops are too severe to be due to anything like reactive hypoglycaemia, they've said it just doesn't fit. Not to mention the fact that they will also happen when I am fasting. Tonight I had another hypo (only measured 3.9 when they woke me, but I was drenched in sweat so think I was already on the way up!) They've measured as low as 3.1 in the week I've been in here, but I think they've missed a lot of lows. I keep getting these huge swings in mood.
They're having me drink Fortisips, which send my blood sugar up to 10.7 and above! Then one hour later, I'll be back at blood sugar of 4.0!