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BG climbing quickly and no idea why.....

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mch1966

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Location
wales
Type of diabetes
Type 2
Treatment type
Tablets (oral)
Hi,

Since yesterday my BG readings have been climbing at a fair pace, my average over the last month has been 9.2 mmol, the last two days I have been having regular readings around the 17 to 19 mmol range, no change in diet or meds, starting needing the loo a lot more and feeling a bit like pre-diagnosis, spoke with my DN and advice was to call out of hours if they hover over 20.

I am on Gliclazide 320, have a bmi of 24 and am a 47 year old male, has anyone ever experienced a rapid surge in BG and found the reason? cannot take metformin of any other meds that require liver function.

Worrying about the situation and not sure what is going on...

Carb intake today below 100gms normally around 150gms with readings averaging 9.2.

any comments/experiences welcome, no temp, BP 117 over 75.

thanks
 
Are you a misdiagnosed Type 1? It is worth investigating. DaiBell is the expert on here on this subject - he may be along later with the reasons why this is a possibility.
 
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Are you a misdiagnosed Type 1? It is worth investigating. DaiBell is the expert on here on this subject - he may be along later with the reasons why this is a possibility.
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Thanks for your comments, I don't know about the type 1 question, and not sure how to find out.... I am hesitant to eat anything at the moment just in case I escalate the problem...hopefully they will start to come down.

thanks again
 
Hi. Not sure I'm an expert on Late onset T1 (LADA), but some thoughts! If you are normal weight and your blood sugar climbs rapidly over a few weeks/months then there is a possibility of late onset T1 (also called LADA or T1.5). It tends to affect people in their teens thru to 20s/30s and occurs when there are anti-bodies which kill the islet cells in the Pancreas. Now you are 47 and there could be other causes such as a virus, other medication such as steroids and so on. I suffered fairly sudden weight loss at age 60 always having had a normal BMI and was diagnosed as T2 but in practice my diabetes has been more like LADA and I'm now on insulin. I failed the common test for LADA which is the GAD test which detects GAD anti-bodies, so the reason for my failing pancreas is unknown. So, you need to discuss your high blood sugar with the GP or nurse and perhaps ask for an HBa1C and even a GAD test if the HBa1C is too high. There are other meds such as Sitagliptin which may help; it helped me for a year or so in addition to 360gm of Glic which soon ran out of steam. I also had a c-peptide test done with the GAD and that showed I had very little natural insulin which is another way of detecting a failing pancreas rather than insulin resistance (this shows up with a high insulin level). I'm generalising a bit in the above and I'm not a medical professional. There is a T1.5 forum you may want to look at.
 
Hi Daibell,

Thanks for your comments and information, I will see my GP and request more tests, I have suffered 2 bouts of acute pancreatitis and the pancreas has been reduced in size, leading up to my diagnosis I had a mild dose of pancreatitis due to a suspected gall stone, it appears that the Glic has stopped being so effective so it may be as you say.

I will try and get my carbs down further today and focus on portion control, my fasting bg this morning was 7.5 mmol down from 19.8 last night which seems to follow no logical pattern, normally my most difficult reading to get down is my fasting BG.

Oh well lets see what the day brings, onwards and upwards :lol:

Thanks again for your reply.
 
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