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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Draco16" data-source="post: 2493846" data-attributes="member: 467776">Haven't noticed anything post vaccine myself.  But my blood sugar (and thus insulin requirements) are often changing over time.A possibility for your situation could also be long covid as that seems to do all manner off odd / bad things for our organs and systems.But regardless, it doesn't really matter what the cause is (eg even if you reached certainty it was the vaccine, you can't unvaccinate yourself now).  You need to deal with the resulting high blood sugars now.  74 Hba1c is right on the border of dangerously high.  That translates to an average reading reading of 12 mmol/L.  If that's the average there'll be alot of time when you're over 14 and need to be checking for ketones.  Exercising at those times is very dangerous.You mention losing weight, but that's likely a result of these high blood sugars.  Your body is not properly able to use the food you eat.When running high it does require more insulin to get you back down eg 1 unit might bring me down from 9 to 6, but i'd need 1.5 to 2 units to bring me down from 15 to 12Generally you're not taking enough insulin versus your carbs and activity as your average blood sugars are too high.  As you're constantly high, I don' see how your background insulin can be correct.  Do a basal test yourself rather than rely on your consultants guess.</blockquote>

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