Hi All,
I have my first 'illness' since getting my libre and it is showing be some interesting results...
I have had a cold/chest infection for about a week and it is throwing my sugars wayyy out of control, far beyond what I would expect for a cold.
My insulin seems to be really struggling. I'm going really high (up to 19) overnight, despite going to bed with sugars in my normal range (5-7). I have suffered from dawn phenomenon recently, and think that that coupled with the illness is really making life hard for me.
I just had lunch about 1.5 hours ago, some soup, bread and an apple. I took 14u of humalog (counting 70g carb on a 1:5 ratio and pre-bolusing by 30 mins) and my sugars have shot from 7 to 19 within 1.5 hours! It's like I haven't taken any insulin at all!!
I had been worried that my basal wasn't really working properly, so I changed my lantus pen yesterday but haven't seen any improvements. I also have increased my lantus by 2u from 40 to 42 to see if that would help, but it hasn't so far.
Does anyone else experience these kinds of sugars when ill?
I normally exercise to help with my BSL, but haven't been able to because I've been feeling so run down. This probably isn't helping matters. I also did the test to check whether my pen was dosing properly (I've seen it on the forum a few times) and it looks like my humalog pen was dosing about 5u short, so I have changed over to a spare.
I have my first 'illness' since getting my libre and it is showing be some interesting results...
I have had a cold/chest infection for about a week and it is throwing my sugars wayyy out of control, far beyond what I would expect for a cold.
My insulin seems to be really struggling. I'm going really high (up to 19) overnight, despite going to bed with sugars in my normal range (5-7). I have suffered from dawn phenomenon recently, and think that that coupled with the illness is really making life hard for me.
I just had lunch about 1.5 hours ago, some soup, bread and an apple. I took 14u of humalog (counting 70g carb on a 1:5 ratio and pre-bolusing by 30 mins) and my sugars have shot from 7 to 19 within 1.5 hours! It's like I haven't taken any insulin at all!!
I had been worried that my basal wasn't really working properly, so I changed my lantus pen yesterday but haven't seen any improvements. I also have increased my lantus by 2u from 40 to 42 to see if that would help, but it hasn't so far.
Does anyone else experience these kinds of sugars when ill?
I normally exercise to help with my BSL, but haven't been able to because I've been feeling so run down. This probably isn't helping matters. I also did the test to check whether my pen was dosing properly (I've seen it on the forum a few times) and it looks like my humalog pen was dosing about 5u short, so I have changed over to a spare.
