knittingnellie21
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Hello,
I’m new, I’m really hoping for some advice because the (but not my actual) GP and I are stumped. I am seeing my actual GP Saturday- he knows me so I’m hoping he can help more.
I’ve put as much detail as I can, please be gentle!
3 weeks on holiday with type 1 diabetic mum she noticed i was having many blood sugar drops which we had to treat several times a day. 1) I have been having awful symptoms of feeling like you have jelly legs, sick, tearful and unable to move at all. 2) I wake up with a start at 4am usually feeling awful. I then get up at 7ish with the driest mouth and hungover feeling. 3) the other morning I woke up and literally could not move had lump in throat and had to send my son to get me some biscuits. 4) I decided to get a libre 2 to see if this could give me any indication of what was going on.
On the first day I had 4 separate blood glucose lows between 2.9 going down and 3.7. In 3 hours I had been eating an absolute ton of sweets and carbs to stay in range and the highest ive managed was 5.1 for 20 minutes at best. I am constantly fighting feelings of exhaustion, I can barely move at times. I have a background headache, really snotty- like gross thick ick!
I was finger prick tested at GP surgery when I was there after I had eaten what felt like a sweet shop! and it was 7- he didn’t say any more other than dismissing the Libre and to stop eating sweets and coke.
Had full MOT of bloods, no infection everything was normal minus 1 of the 5 liver tests being “off”.
The HbA1c came back as 36.
This was a week ago.
I feel pretty much worse every day, I feel sick all the time, I’m really hungry, thirsty, sometimes all food tastes weird- like bananas?
I go low at night at 3:30/ 4, the alarms go off- normally 3.4/3.7.
If I try and fix a low I eat a few sweets then a biscuit. Or a few dextrose tablets and then a biscuit.
I then go in range then I go higher and it beeps.
I just feel like a blooming yo-yo constantly feeling tired, hungry, thirsty, sick and headachey- yet the bloods say I’m fine- I don’t feel fine at all!
I go low and feel so unwell then when I’m higher I feel drunk, woozy, really disoriented can’t focus.
The range on libre is 4-7.8
I figured that was good as someone not diagnosed as diabetic?
I have been getting worse for 3 weeks now although I think I’ve been feeling this way for a while longer I think. I’m a busy mum I just don’t think about it to be honest!
I’m not at all over weight healthy bmi, not a perfect diet but I eat well I think.
I’ve started a food diary and I’m now going to be finger prick testing when I wake up, before breakfast 2 hours after etc. I will test when the libre alarm goes off too.
I just don’t know what’s going on, something isn’t right. I can stay in range then have these what I feel are random lows and then spike too high too long. Granted I don’t go over 9 so by no means very high but for me anything 4 and below and 7.8 and up- it really affects me. I can’t function as I am. I don’t know to what to say to my GP other than trying not sob on him!
I’m new, I’m really hoping for some advice because the (but not my actual) GP and I are stumped. I am seeing my actual GP Saturday- he knows me so I’m hoping he can help more.
I’ve put as much detail as I can, please be gentle!
3 weeks on holiday with type 1 diabetic mum she noticed i was having many blood sugar drops which we had to treat several times a day. 1) I have been having awful symptoms of feeling like you have jelly legs, sick, tearful and unable to move at all. 2) I wake up with a start at 4am usually feeling awful. I then get up at 7ish with the driest mouth and hungover feeling. 3) the other morning I woke up and literally could not move had lump in throat and had to send my son to get me some biscuits. 4) I decided to get a libre 2 to see if this could give me any indication of what was going on.
On the first day I had 4 separate blood glucose lows between 2.9 going down and 3.7. In 3 hours I had been eating an absolute ton of sweets and carbs to stay in range and the highest ive managed was 5.1 for 20 minutes at best. I am constantly fighting feelings of exhaustion, I can barely move at times. I have a background headache, really snotty- like gross thick ick!
I was finger prick tested at GP surgery when I was there after I had eaten what felt like a sweet shop! and it was 7- he didn’t say any more other than dismissing the Libre and to stop eating sweets and coke.
Had full MOT of bloods, no infection everything was normal minus 1 of the 5 liver tests being “off”.
The HbA1c came back as 36.
This was a week ago.
I feel pretty much worse every day, I feel sick all the time, I’m really hungry, thirsty, sometimes all food tastes weird- like bananas?
I go low at night at 3:30/ 4, the alarms go off- normally 3.4/3.7.
If I try and fix a low I eat a few sweets then a biscuit. Or a few dextrose tablets and then a biscuit.
I then go in range then I go higher and it beeps.
I just feel like a blooming yo-yo constantly feeling tired, hungry, thirsty, sick and headachey- yet the bloods say I’m fine- I don’t feel fine at all!
I go low and feel so unwell then when I’m higher I feel drunk, woozy, really disoriented can’t focus.
The range on libre is 4-7.8
I figured that was good as someone not diagnosed as diabetic?
I have been getting worse for 3 weeks now although I think I’ve been feeling this way for a while longer I think. I’m a busy mum I just don’t think about it to be honest!
I’m not at all over weight healthy bmi, not a perfect diet but I eat well I think.
I’ve started a food diary and I’m now going to be finger prick testing when I wake up, before breakfast 2 hours after etc. I will test when the libre alarm goes off too.
I just don’t know what’s going on, something isn’t right. I can stay in range then have these what I feel are random lows and then spike too high too long. Granted I don’t go over 9 so by no means very high but for me anything 4 and below and 7.8 and up- it really affects me. I can’t function as I am. I don’t know to what to say to my GP other than trying not sob on him!