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They gave me two bags of fluids in hospital and got the ketones down to 0.1 and sent me home to continue managing with double my normal doses. I need to keep hydrated and eating. I’ll speak to my diabetes specialist on Thursday to hopefully get to the bottom of it. One of the many annoying...

In hospital now, blood sugar 6.8 and ketones 2.5!

Thanks, I will contact them on Monday. I’ve now got ketones rising from 0.2 to 0.7 and from 4.3 to 6.8 for blood sugar. I feel queasy. I’ve nearly doubled my night time dose of levemir to 4 units (was 2.5) so will see what happens.

This is correct. I had it when pregnant. Perfect blood sugar levels with ketones and vomiting. I had to be treated in hospital with an insulin and glucose drip.

I had a cold around a week ago and have very slight leftover symptoms from that. Covid was ruled out. I’m not unusually stressed. I had a positive pregnancy test a few days ago but now have my period. This is what prompted me to start tackling the highs aggressively. Could it be this?

I’ve had type 1 for just over 10 years and was age 30 at diagnosis. I’ve always been on very low doses. 6 units would normally have me battling hypos all day. I have an appointment with the diabetes team in a few weeks so I was waiting but, considering the last few days, I will call up on...

So I have had unexplained high blood sugar levels (up to 20) for a couple of weeks, but I am breastfeeding so I’m in the best control at the moment although my hba1c was 6.6 a month ago. I decided that I had better get on top of the highs so I started treating them quite aggressively to no...