Robbity
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- Type of diabetes
- Type 2
- Treatment type
- Diet only
Sort of a woffle and vent following on from my 6 month review thread earlier:
One of the non-diabetic things I also saw my GP about today is a "jammed" trigger finger. He gave me an injection in the little node on my palm and told me to make sure I keep the finger as straight as possible - the injection should help loosen it up a bit. So I went home, found some elastoplast to bind it to my middle finger as a temporary splint, went and ordered a proper finger splint from Amazon and thought no more of it.
I tested glucose levels when I got home this morning and they were a bit high at 7.5 as I said in my other thread. I didn't eat again until evening and my pre-meal test had shot up to 9.9 - not something I expected out of the blue, nor something I ever expect to see either unless I feel low and scoff a bit of sugar or jam. So a cleaned finger and a re-test gave me 9.1 so I hadn't been a mucky duck... But neither could I work out for a while what might have caused it. I finally twigged that it might be the injection - and Google told me that trigger fingers can be treated with cortisosteroid injections and these can raise glucose levels. Puzzle solved. But in addition I also discovered that the long term eye drops I'd been prescribed to treat chronic uveitis until signed off last autumn also belonged to this group of steroids. And it was late autumn that I also began see to a definite reduction in my overall glucose levels down from mainly 6s and 7s, to 5s and 6s. And again I'd been uncertain what had (pardon the pun) triggered this drop, as my basic low carb diet hadn't really changed at all....
Unfortunately I'd not replaced my Libre sensor with a new one at the weekend so missed out on real time logging all today's shenanigans. I'm going to see if I've got a new one still in the medicine cupboard then I can maybe log the continuing after effects of my injection. (So far meter says 9.5 at one hour after a standard low carb meal and down a bit to 8.9 at two hours so not budging much yet.
Diabetes management for me seems to entail a far bit of detective work!
Robbity
One of the non-diabetic things I also saw my GP about today is a "jammed" trigger finger. He gave me an injection in the little node on my palm and told me to make sure I keep the finger as straight as possible - the injection should help loosen it up a bit. So I went home, found some elastoplast to bind it to my middle finger as a temporary splint, went and ordered a proper finger splint from Amazon and thought no more of it.
I tested glucose levels when I got home this morning and they were a bit high at 7.5 as I said in my other thread. I didn't eat again until evening and my pre-meal test had shot up to 9.9 - not something I expected out of the blue, nor something I ever expect to see either unless I feel low and scoff a bit of sugar or jam. So a cleaned finger and a re-test gave me 9.1 so I hadn't been a mucky duck... But neither could I work out for a while what might have caused it. I finally twigged that it might be the injection - and Google told me that trigger fingers can be treated with cortisosteroid injections and these can raise glucose levels. Puzzle solved. But in addition I also discovered that the long term eye drops I'd been prescribed to treat chronic uveitis until signed off last autumn also belonged to this group of steroids. And it was late autumn that I also began see to a definite reduction in my overall glucose levels down from mainly 6s and 7s, to 5s and 6s. And again I'd been uncertain what had (pardon the pun) triggered this drop, as my basic low carb diet hadn't really changed at all....
Unfortunately I'd not replaced my Libre sensor with a new one at the weekend so missed out on real time logging all today's shenanigans. I'm going to see if I've got a new one still in the medicine cupboard then I can maybe log the continuing after effects of my injection. (So far meter says 9.5 at one hour after a standard low carb meal and down a bit to 8.9 at two hours so not budging much yet.
Diabetes management for me seems to entail a far bit of detective work!
Robbity