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Diabetes drives me mad sometimes!

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Elc1112

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I've been diabetic for over 20 yeas now and it still confuses the life out of me sometimes!

My sugars were running between 4 and 8 all day yesterday - pretty normal for me. Had a fairly average dinner and, before going to bed, I did my usual dose of levemir.

Woke up this morning feeling rotten. Tested sugars - "hi". Moderate ketones. I just don't get it. No signs of a hypo during the night - I've got good hypo awareness so would usually wake up, if I don't I have a splitting headache the next day.

Anyway, morning rant over. Off to face a day of feeling awful and trying to get some work done. Joy.

Em
 
Don't know what else to say apart from AAARRGH! I agree and I feel for you! Hope the rest of your day goes well and you feel better :crazy:
 
Em,

All I can say is keep an eye on your bg tonight and perhaps do a bg check 2 or 3 o'clock in the morning just in case.

I wouldn't worry too much if this mornings reading was a one-off and your bg was fine before and after today, we all get higher than expected reading from time-to-time and it's only when a pattern emerges that we need to take action, hope you corrected this mornings high and all is well today! :)
 
You say no sign of an overnight hypo and you have good hypo awareness..

I think your sign was of a probable overnight hypo is feeling rotten this morning...

As it sounds you slept through it, and your liver dumped to bring you out of it.. Which would go towards explaining your hypo after a correction... Because your liver dumped, it takes time to restock your liver glucose store, and your liver will replenish this before it starts dribbling out any background glucose into your system, the knock effect is that the background insulin effectively becomes quick acting and combined with your correction dose, stripping the BG down a lot quicker..

If you totally convinced that you haven't slept through a night hypo..

Take a look at what you did yesterday, did you eat anything that had a long delayed impact on your BG? Perhaps different exercise, increased stress that might have raise your bg?

But as nigel said, it may be wise to set your alarm clock to check your bg around 2-3am in the morning, see what's happening here
 
Will definitely to a mid-night test tonight. I didn't do anything different yesterday at all.

It could have been a night time hypo which I slept through. When I do get these I normally wake with a bad headache - almost hangover like - which I dint have this morning. I felt rotten in a "my sugars are high" sort of way. Also, if I do have a hypo in the night then my sugars will spike, but normally to around 12-15, not "hi" which is 34 plus! Still, it's definitely a possibility.

I suppose the other explanation is thy I forgot to take my long-lasting insulin last night. Unlikely, but could have forgotten.

Anyway, sugars back on normal range now. I'll keep an eye on it overnight and hope that this was a one off. Haven't had sugars that high in a long, long time!

Thanks all for your replies. As I said, diabetes drives me bad sometimes but it's good to be able to rant to people who understand :)

Em
 
Rant away Em - I know how you feel. Do you think you may have a bug especially with some moderate ketones showing? Mine have been stable since last Thursday and went to GP today to find out I have an urine infection! Take care and hope bloods sugars behave tonight.
 
Could be a bug I suppose - there's so much going around at the minute! I've got the rest of the week off work and am planning a duvet day in front of the fire tomorrow. That'll keep any bugs at bay... Just to be safe! ;)
 
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