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- Type of diabetes
- Don't have diabetes
- Treatment type
- Diet only
Hello,
I joined here last week with concern about diabetes with my sister (52). I am not sure where to start or where to write.
I have just wrote loads and deleted it. Basically moved back to family home early last year, relationship ended came back home.
My sister suffers extreme anxiety, panic attacks, bouts of depression and mild OCD.
To get these blood test taken took everything we had. ......
Keeping it straight forward for this post and will give any blood test results as needed.
Oct 2018 HbA1c 68 mmol/mol
Jun 2019 HbA1c 39 mol/mol and
Mar 2020 HbA1c 38 mol/mol
Since lockdown she will not go out. We noticed the last few weeks that after eating she is sleeping a lot, so she did a blood test strip and the readings ranged from 12, 14 and highest was 17 mml/mol this scared her and we said she needs to go to the doctors... she won't. She has now cut down on chocolates, biscuits, bread etc and her numbers have been coming down, last few days before meals are 6.4, 6.1 and even a 5.8 mml/mol and sleeping all the time,
We were so pleased, she was pleased.... now this is where the problem comes back. When numbers were first high we also got her to do a urine stick test and it showed glucose in her urine, as the blood glucose meter test numbers have come down so as the glucose on the test strip..... that is clear, but now there is ketones there, ranging between the highest and next down....
Heres were we need advice - is it okay for these ketones to be there now that the blood sugar has come down...
Will the ketones go away. she did have strange smells in her nose, she says these have virtually gone, coming and going and less often.
My sister is still trying not to eat high sugar food etc., she is eating eggs and ham and this type of thing (she won't be able to keep this up, and says she is doing 'just for now to help get numbers down' - however, even after eating the ketones are still there.
She is drinking lots of water. We have asked her to go to the Doctors, she won't she is so scared of the virus she will not go.
Can I ask, ketones and blood sugar..... has the blood sugar numbers come down because body is using fat to bring them down - hence the ketones or could the ketones be there due to the amount of sugars that have been in body for so long.
I am sorry I have gone on, put I really don't know what to do. All she says is she doesn't want to be a diabetic and will change. owww and another thought would this be anything to do with Type 1.
I know I won't get her to the doctors, although we keep trying, at the moment she just won't.
"Any" and advice would really appreciated, I understand you aren't doctors and the advice you give is your own - I just need help to understand if this will be okay or what to do.
Thank you to anyone that has finished reading this.
I joined here last week with concern about diabetes with my sister (52). I am not sure where to start or where to write.
I have just wrote loads and deleted it. Basically moved back to family home early last year, relationship ended came back home.
My sister suffers extreme anxiety, panic attacks, bouts of depression and mild OCD.
To get these blood test taken took everything we had. ......
Keeping it straight forward for this post and will give any blood test results as needed.
Oct 2018 HbA1c 68 mmol/mol
Jun 2019 HbA1c 39 mol/mol and
Mar 2020 HbA1c 38 mol/mol
Since lockdown she will not go out. We noticed the last few weeks that after eating she is sleeping a lot, so she did a blood test strip and the readings ranged from 12, 14 and highest was 17 mml/mol this scared her and we said she needs to go to the doctors... she won't. She has now cut down on chocolates, biscuits, bread etc and her numbers have been coming down, last few days before meals are 6.4, 6.1 and even a 5.8 mml/mol and sleeping all the time,
We were so pleased, she was pleased.... now this is where the problem comes back. When numbers were first high we also got her to do a urine stick test and it showed glucose in her urine, as the blood glucose meter test numbers have come down so as the glucose on the test strip..... that is clear, but now there is ketones there, ranging between the highest and next down....
Heres were we need advice - is it okay for these ketones to be there now that the blood sugar has come down...
Will the ketones go away. she did have strange smells in her nose, she says these have virtually gone, coming and going and less often.
My sister is still trying not to eat high sugar food etc., she is eating eggs and ham and this type of thing (she won't be able to keep this up, and says she is doing 'just for now to help get numbers down' - however, even after eating the ketones are still there.
She is drinking lots of water. We have asked her to go to the Doctors, she won't she is so scared of the virus she will not go.
Can I ask, ketones and blood sugar..... has the blood sugar numbers come down because body is using fat to bring them down - hence the ketones or could the ketones be there due to the amount of sugars that have been in body for so long.
I am sorry I have gone on, put I really don't know what to do. All she says is she doesn't want to be a diabetic and will change. owww and another thought would this be anything to do with Type 1.
I know I won't get her to the doctors, although we keep trying, at the moment she just won't.
"Any" and advice would really appreciated, I understand you aren't doctors and the advice you give is your own - I just need help to understand if this will be okay or what to do.
Thank you to anyone that has finished reading this.