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I have been diabetic now for a little over 2 years. I have had trouble keeping my blood sugar in the proper range but have been trying to do better. I usually run around 200mg (11.1mmol) give or take as an average. Not good, I know. I have had some better weeks, some worse weeks. My problem is the last 4-5 days I have had wild swings in my blood sugar. Example: Last night I took 50 units of Lantus, ( my doctors recommended dose), at 8PM. My reading was 425mg, (23.6mmol).(By the way like I said I have been having swings so this is not normal, even for me). I took no Novolog , (short term), because of issues the last 4 days. I felt my blood sugar changing so I took a reading at 10Pm. I was at 60mg,(3.3mmol). I drank some O.J. and ate 8 chocolate covered Peanut Butter pretzels to raise it. I checked my blood sugar again at 1130PM and it was back up to 496mg, (27.6mmol). I did not expect it to go that high from just what little bit I had. I was afraid to take any short term, Novolog, just before going to sleep in case it dropped me too far since it had been acting differently on me than before, like it was more potent. I woke up around 3am and ate an ice cream bar and went back to sleep. When I woke up at 9am my blood sugar was 55mg, (3.1mmol). I drank some coffee with creamer and drank one small glass of O.J.. I checked it at 11:33am and it had only went up to 70mg, (3.9mmol). Since then I have eaten breakfast and have had more O.J. to drink and haven't checked it since. The highs and lows have been happening the last 4-5 days. I am going to the doctors tomorrow to have this checked out. I did some research and think maybe I have gotten brittle diabetes. How dangerous is this? Has anyone else had an issue like this? Any advice? I am new to this group, I just joined today so sorry if I am in wrong forum or have broken any rules with this post.
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