hyperglycemia

I'm a type 2 diabetic patient in my 60s. I take insulin and medicine as well. I exercise daily and have a healthy diet as well. However, Sometimes when my sugar level goes down to 40-50 mg/dL or below, I immediately take sweets or sugary items and it rises gradually. And in some cases, after...

I really enjoyed my lunch yesterday, fresh white rolls, ham, beetroot and pepper Humous with a nice piece of tiffin. calculated my carbs and wrote everything in my digital diary. My Libre scan was being very nice to me an hour after Lunch it started saying HI to me! After a 2nd scan (HI); a...

Blood sugars have been above 300 for a month now. I have exams in 2 days and only could study 10% of the syllabus cause i kept falling asleep or couldnt focus due to high blood sugars and the stress from it. It just seems like a blind end. I dont know where to go from here. Disappearing right...

Hi All! I started a new job at the end of September and so far I've had to take 2 week's off sick already due to feeling very unwell - bad headaches, severe nausea, vomiting, blurred vision etc all the signs of hyperglycaemia. I've been trying to get treatment from my GP but they keep wanting to...

Hi! For several months now I have been experiencing severe nausea and really bad headaches. I have had every test going re the nausea and everything came back clear. I have chronic migraine so the headaches were put down to that and I have been referred back to my neurologist. I also have...

Can anyone tell me which is best - low or zero fat, or full fat? I also have high cholesterol and keep reading conflicting things on the internet (even from reliable sources). I dabbled in keto a few years ago and it was full fat all the way but with my cholesterol my diabetic nurse says low...

Hello everyone. Here is my situation. I was diagnosed with type 1 about 2 years ago and after using insulin for a while I went into the honeymoon period and stopped using insulin altogether. My bg was pretty good but now a few years later my sugar began to be sort of out of control and because...

Good afternoon, My 4 year old son has been having issues with blood sugars. He is having hypos as low as 2.1 and hypers as high as 17 that I've catch. He has been in hospital this week with ketones 4.3 . We have left still not knowing what is going on. Because of the hypos they point blank...

I have had type 2 diabetes, hypertension and glaucoma for many years. My my fasting and postprandial lab readings are in the 90s and my A1C is 5.x. However any time my fasting or postprandial go below 90 or above 100 I get eye pain and headaches. I have been to a number of doctors and they say...

Has anyone been prescribed Freestyle Libre since 1 April in accordance to NHS new policy? My GP seems to think nothing changed and that they cannot prescribe it. Any news on that?

I have recently stopped taking Gliclazide as guided by my GP. The result has been extremely high blood sugar readings, mornings tend to be 13 and during the day are 17 - 19. I'm Type II, I am taking Metformin morning and night, Simvistatin at night and my current insulin is Levemir 25 units at...

Hi all, My first time posting & sorry it’s so long… I’ve noticed 2 scenarios, with similar themes (i.e. unhealthy so don’t happen very much), that cause me to have extremely elevated (and stubborn) glucose readings for hours: 1) Eating a large amount of any food – sometimes purely carb...

Hiya, Suzan here, I have been a type 1 diabetic for about 8 years and havent always had the best track record with my blood sugars, but lately my body has been going completely nuts and I have no idea what to do about it! When I first became diabetic I gained 30 kilos in a year and was unable to...

I don’t even know if I’m really asking a question here... Since the weather has become more mild and breezey I’ve been having a lot of difficulty keeping my daytime blood sugars within range (they’re often between 11-15 no matter how much insulin I take and begin to rise as soon as I hit the 5...

Hello all! Need some urgent advice please... I have been unwell with a bad cold for around 24hrs now, and I have had raised BG levels all day, despite my efforts to correct them. I checked 10 mins ago and it was 31.6! I have taken 3 units of insulin to try and bring it down, and I have...

So my lantus works for 18 hours. I wake up with decent fasting numbers and then I take tablets (metformin XR 2000 mg + gliclizide MR 120 mg) with breakfast. I find that my best blood sugar levels around lunch time. Today at lunch: Pre- Prandial - 5.6 mmol/L 2 hours post - 6.3 mmol/L Dinner...

Hello fellow type 1s. I have recently started Tresiba insulin on 4 units once a day which seems to be working well. I'm a slow diabetic was diagnosed August 2016, so still have my own insulin. Overnight my levels regularly drop in the 4s once I had a 3.7. I'm always worried if it goes into 4s I...

Experience has taught me that hyperglycemia may make me sleepy when as high as approximately 12 bg. But hypoglycemia, even as 4.5 and below makes me very ill: heart pain, and all the serious side effects. And so, I avoid hypoglycemia like the plague.

Great site. Thank you. Wish I could follow DBUK advice Me 67yo male T2 for 21 years, on dialysis for 30 months waiting for kidney transplant. Got all the usual diabetic troubles, ageing body cardio hypertension hypos bloods all mostly self-inflicted. My problem is lifestyle. Wrong foods...

Hi, It seems every time I eat a bit of cheddar my BS goes unexpectedly high. I do count for proteins in my bolus, which works great for everything, but it seems even if I do that for cheddar, this does not suffice. I don't eat a lot of cheese in UK, but the other one I usually eat in LARGE...