I went to my GP yesterday evening who administered a ketone test and that came back as below 0.6 which was good. I asked him while I was there if he would put in a referral for me to see a specialist on diabetes and he was reticent to do that. I can get an appointment for the 16th June but it needs a GP referral. Can a GP refuse this? On what grounds?
Anyhow, I left somewhat reassured by my ketone reading. My blood sugars dropped from 10.7 to Lo (below 1) in just over an hour and a half, between 8.20pm and 9.55pm. I called 999 and the paramedics arrived. I was in a very strange place, mentally. I couldn't string a sentence together. Couldn't put my thoughts into order. They got me back up to where I needed to be and stayed with me until I stabilised but when they were gone, I decided to stay awake all night in case it happened again, which it did. Not down as far but still down below where I needed to be.
This only happens at night. Within an hour of the Lantus pen, my blood sugar drops like a stone. Last night however, it dropped so fast it scared me. 6 units per hour. It took until 4am to stabilise down to 1 unit per hour. The hospital has given me the leeway to experiment with the amount of units but if I go higher (25 units) I get the massive drop and it stays like that for hours. If I go lower, I don't but then I wake up with my blood sugars at 12 or 13, which isn't good. The Novorapid doesn't drop me at all, anymore.
I nearly died last night. I may have to just sleep all day and eat like crazy at night. I can't think of any other way. I have had 3 crashing down hypos in 2 weeks. The thing is, in the hospital, I never went below 5.8 or above 15.9. When I awoke, I was always at about 6.5. What on earth am I doing wrong?