• Guest - w'd love to know what you think about the forum! Take the 2025 Survey »

Help??

Domi0205

Well-Known Member
Messages
59
So, I was checking my blood sugar yesterday night and because I was really shaky and my sugar was 17.8 which straight away I checked my ketone level and it was 0.1... Today I'm also really off and I bearly have any appetite... I was checking my blood sugar few times and it was between 5.3 - 7.0 which is quite good and now at the evening I still feel awful and after dinner tea and a glass of wine I still feel pretty bad I checked my blood sugar an hour later after the dinner and it was 11.4 which is still kinda safe and I checked my ketone level was 0.2....
I don't know what is happening to me atm and if there's now a point to go to the hospital... Although my mom wants me to go there just incase
What should I do?
 
Sorry to hear you are feeling poorly @Domi0205 . As a T!D, not as professional advice or opinion:
I wonder whether it is some virus bug making you unwell?
 
kitedoc said:
Sorry to hear you are feeling poorly @Domi0205 . As a T!D, not as professional advice or opinion:
I wonder whether it is some virus bug making you unwell?
Click to expand...
I'm not too sure but I'm just scared of me getting into a coma or something because it happened 3times that I woke up while I had 2.0 or 2.8
 
Yes, I know from my own experience that a hypo can cause a rebound in BSL due to the Adrenaline and glucagon causing an outpouring of stored glucose from the liver. Not sure if a hypo is the cause of your shaking but the BSLs today seem pretty good as you say.
Could it be monthly cycle, viral ? Any fever, tummy upset, stinging when passing urine??
A friend of mine used to say that she knew she had a urine tract infection (UTI) because she felt nauseous and she was having bad hair days, so it appears that one can have a UTI without local symptoms ? Just some thoughts!!
 
I'm sorry but I didn't understand a word
 
Ok @Domi0205, As a diabetic, not as professional advice or opinion.
When our blood sugar drops and we have a hypo our body tries to do something about it.
It releases Adrenaline, a hormone used to get the body ready to run or fight. That causes the usual first signs of the hypo - sweating, pale skin, rapid heart beat. Also adrenaline causes stored glucose in our liver to be released.
Another hormone, glucagon, in the pancreas is also released when our blood sugar is low and also makes the liver release stored glucose.
The end result of the effect of adrenaline and glucagon is that the BSL rises (sometimes just from these hormones' effect or maybe also with the food we eat at hypo time as well). and may rise to levels higher than normal. We call this a rebound, the blood sugar goes low with the hypo and bounces or rebounds back up higher.
Feeling ill can have many causes and can also raise the BSL: like the onset of a period, a virus, a tooth infection, and the other one might be a urine infection.
Usually persons say with a urine infection they have to pass urine in small amounts frequently and it burns when they do. And they may feel ill. Sometimes they do not experience any of the usual signs but feel generally unwell, off their food etc.
A friend of mine says she knows when she has a urine infection only by the fact that she cannot manage her hair, something happens when she has a urine infection to her hair and she has not other way of knowing - just one of those unusual things but just to show that whilst most people get urine symptoms with a urinary infection not all do.
To check for a urine infection the doctor asks for a sample of urine to send away to the lab and prescribes antibiotics.
I hope that helps and that you are getting better.
 
Hello @Domi0205 You have not been a T1D for long so this rollercoaster of a ride you seem to be going through would make you feel unwell, especially if you have been at 17.8 which on the few times I have hit those types of number I really feel ick!

OK, while being hypo and hitting low numbers of 2.0 and 2.8, while not good won't put you own to a coma (you would need to drop much lower than that), however as explained by Kitdoc the body goes into recovery mode and one thing it does is dump a pile of glycogen into your system. Trouble is if you have over corrected for the hypo, many do, plus the recover, this can send you BSL up high.

Other things can affect sugars are infections so something like a cold, stomach upset etc.

The other one is 'time of the month' or when your period is on/due, some find that they become insulin resistant (because of the hormonal changes) and so the blood sugars will go high and they have to inject a little more to get back into what they consider a normal range.
Be carful with this because it may only last for the duration of the period.

You say that 11.4 is 'kind of safe' but I have to ask safe from what? not being arsey just nosey really I would not be happy at that number personally I would what to be below 10, but thats just me.

Hope things settle down for you soon

NOTE not medically trained just had this wonderful condition a long time plus you learn a lot reading round the forum.
 
Well my diabetic nurse said that below
4.0 is hypo and you need to act quickly and above 13.9 to look for ketones
 
If your BG is 17 then take a correction dose and drink some plain water.

I'm often at 11 if I test 2 hours after eating. Novorapid works very slowly in me.

I wouldn't worry with those ketone levels but if you are concerned then give your diabetes team a call.
 
Domi0205 said:
Well my diabetic nurse said that below
4.0 is hypo and you need to act quickly and above 13.9 to look for ketones
Click to expand...

Yep fair point because sometime you can reach 4.0 and then suddenly drop.

At 13.9 yes check but don't ignore because you could be going up and as @Circuspony you really should think about correcting.

Its all a balancing game, the more you play the more you understand how you as person reacts to things, where it be hypo's or hyper's what works well to treat hypo's how much insulin you need to bring you back from high to more normal levels.

Keep asking question of both yourDSN and on here
 
Okie thanks
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Menu
Log in
Register
Cookies are required to use this site. You must accept them to continue using the site. Learn More.…