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Im Scared Please Help Me

Katzura San

Katzura San

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Type of diabetes
Type 1
Treatment type
Insulin
im having a tooth abscess but this case happened to me for the first time where my blood glucose was 417mg/dl with no ketoacidosis, and i corrected it immediately with a huge 10 units dose but instead of getting coorected to less than 150 mg/dl i checked after 3 hours and its 507 mg/dl what should i do and whats happening in my body pls heeelp !!
 
It's the abcess messing with your bloodsugars. Is it being treated? If not, get help for it as soon as you can! I don't know how to correct bs with insulin, I'm a diet controlled T2. Just get the abcess drained & cleaned as soon as you can. Maybe antibiotics too.
 
yea i ll try take some antibiotics immediately and visit a dentist to start the treatment asap thanks for the quick reply it helps relieving my anxiety a bit
 
Hi @Katzura San Getting your abscess treated as soon as possible is your priority here, we cannot advise on correction doses but as you have an infection it will push your bg levels high until the infection has been treated, and it will be necessary to keep a close eye on your levels and take correction doses to bring your levels back into range. I know you must be having an awful time so hope you get some treatment for this soon, best wishes.
 
Juicyj said:
Hi @Katzura San Getting your abscess treated as soon as possible is your priority here, we cannot advice on correction doses but as you have an infection it will push your bg levels high until the infection has been treated, and it will be necessary to keep a close eye on your levels and take correction doses to bring your levels back into range. I know you must be having an awful time so hope you get some treatment for this soon, best wishes.
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i fully agree that i need to treat an infection first so i can bring my body functionality to its normal levels, thanks for the cheerful reply, (all i can do is to control my ascending anxiety because of the spike even after a huge dose of insulin) so i ll wait until its morning and go to a dentist asap thank you so much
 
To add to the points made above, I would add when our BGs are high we tend to experience insulin resistance and need more insulin to make an impact.
Have you increased your basal to treat the underlying BG increase? I would increase it slowly in order not to over do it and then correct with the bolus. I tend to need twice as much correction when my BG is over 14 mmol/l (about 250 in your units).
 
helensaramay said:
To add to the points made above, I would add when our BGs are high we tend to experience insulin resistance and need more insulin to make an impact.
Have you increased your basal to treat the underlying BG increase? I would increase it slowly in order not to over do it and then correct with the bolus. I tend to need twice as much correction when my BG is over 14 mmol/l (about 250 in your units).
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yea im pretty aware of those facts, i used to and im still behaving the way you suggested when im a bit sick or have an unexplained dawn phenomenon/fasting hyperglycemia,. ( just what scared me it was because i injected a lot of insulin expecting even a slight decrease in BG but it increased dramatically ( i suppose that my infection was at its peak at the moment ) as for now my BG is slighlty reducing ...

but maybe i differ from you when it comes to normal logical spikes as long as the high BG doesnt last for a prolonged time, i can correct it with the normal ratio ( maybe when it lasts for a longer time the body starts secretion of similiar hormones when you are sick and maybe ketones starts forming too )

Thank you helen for the help

EllieM said:
These sick day rules are quite helpful

http://www.nhslanarkshire.org.uk/Services/Diabetes/patient-info/Documents/Sick Day Rules for Type 1 Diabetes Oct 16.pdf

Hope you feel better soon: tooth issues are ultra painful and having high blood sugars on top of that just compounds the misery.
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thank you for the link i ll try see if im not actually following a tip there
and yeah i agree about how bad is the tooth infection can be, i had sleep deprivation because of the pain for a consecutive 3 days now ( i dont like taking pain killers when i can withstand pain ) i tend to avoid taking drugs when its not really needed, since they are more harmful than their short treating effect.
thank you for the support :D
 
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