Help....

Sorry to hear you're feeling so rubbish, don't know how much I can help as I'm new myself but I can try!

Do you have a testing meter to see what your blood sugars were like when you started feeling bad?

It's also perfectly possible it was nothing to do with diabetes or what you ate. Is your abcess being treated? Is it possible you could have an infection or that antibiotics aren't working? I would say if you still feel unwell it might be worth a trip to the Dr.

Hope you feel much better very soon.

hi... if you had that sort of reaction I'd say it possibly was a hypo you were having. Are you sure your meter said 21 or 2.1??? If you have a bad hypo it can be hard to recover from it.... it takes a while for your body to adjust. If you are anything like me, potatoes can't be trusted. In fact any vegetable carb is dodgy for me. What I mean is I either go too high or crash too low suddenly after eating them. Maybe this happened to you??? I've had this happen to me a fair bit over the years so I don't really trust veg carbs too much and I test a lot if I do eat them. A dietitian told me to include grain carbs with vegetable carbs to avoid hypo... eg... mix it a bit without going overboard. I can have a hypo within 1.5 hours after eating roast vegies with the family. I thought I had a theory for it... but not too sure as I mentioned it's not predictable.

You should change drs ! if they do not have the help and support there for you they not very good clearly how much insulin you on and what do you eat? The wat u are feeling is caused by lack of insulin phone your local hospital and speak to a diabetes specialist you must be on the ball dnt give up.

Ask to be referred to diabetic consultant at the hospital. You may have to push hard for it, but insist on speaking to the practice manager and then you MP if you get no result. You need some guidance to help figure all this out. Good luck and don't give in till someone listens.

Hi Apricot! From what I can see you're only on metformin - is that right? If so, you may need to look more carefully at your diet or talk to the doctor about a different medication regime. Your readfing of 21 was WAY too high, and your fasting BGs are too high as well. The "quiche" bit to me was a clue as to perhaps dietary issues. You preceded your description of "quiche with 6 tiny potatos" with "a light meal". But quiche is flour; bad. And even though they're small, 6 jerseys is quite a lot to go with it.
You need to get your BGs down quickly I'd say. May help to send us a description of a couple of typical days meals that we may be able to help with. But if you keep getting BGs like you have, you'll need to go back to the Docs I suggest.
It could be that feeling so bad was as a result of an infection and that raised your BGs so much, but that was an old post - has that side improved now?