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Awful headaches

CornishKate

Well-Known Member
Messages
66
Type of diabetes
LADA
Treatment type
Insulin
Hi everyone,

I’ve done a quick search on headaches and didn’t find much but I apologise if this has come up loads of times.

Now been on the insulin for 12 days and levels are really starting to settle but I’m waking up with headaches pretty much every other day or so. My eyes are really bad at the moment so just wondering if it’s that or my Lantus before bed? I already had a small prescription for reading glasses and these are helping with the eyes but should I not wear them unless I need them or would that strain my eyes more?! Any advice would be really helpful

Thanks Julie
 
I don´t know of type 1 diabetes, but I know that when blood glucose goes down it doesn´t go down right away in one's eyes... but anyway maybe glucose is going down in your eyes by and by and maybe your brain which has been used to swimming in blood glucose also reacts a bit too rapid changes... I think you need to mention this to your diabetes team, but it might be that it is only a temporary problem, actually I believe it will be, but always communicate all troubles with your team, as one could overlook something very fatal... are you sure you are not too low in blood glucose during your sleep...?

having hypoes can cause headaches but also be dangerous .by the way when blood glucose going down it is not the right time to get new glasses not until it has been low and stable for a while/some month because blood glucose going down can also affect the strength of what level one's glasses need to be... and it will be a sad thing to get new glasses that are not of the right strength for one only one month later
 
Hi Freema,

Thanks for your reply. My levels seem really good the last few days so I’m hoping they’re not dipping in the night. I have a brilliant diabetic nurse so I think I’ll try her tomorrow.
 
by the way there is also something called a false hypo, where one feels like having a hypo but it is really only because one has been used to be very high, so that NORMAL levels feels like to low for the body untill the body after a while ends up addapting to normal levels..
 
That’s interesting, I didn’t know that!
 
If you've only just started on insulin then your eyesight will be a bit off until your glucose levels settle. It took about 12 weeks for mine to go back to normal.

What were you BG levels running at pre-diagnosis? I'd been on 20+ for so long that anything under 10 in those first few weeks felt like a hypo. I felt shattered all the time and had headaches. The consultant told me it was basically withdrawal symptoms from not having so much sugar in my system. One h3ll of a detox!
 

I was diagnosed as type 2 and on metaformin for 3 weeks before ending up in hospital 2 weeks ago with DKA. My BG wasn’t tested at all up until admission into resus. The GP didn’t test it and didn’t advise me too so I have no idea other than I was 24 on admission. Did you have headaches with your eyes too?
 
Oddly my eyesight 'got better'. I'm short sighted and for 2 weeks it reversed so I ditched the contact lenses.
 
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