My body has become used to high sugar levels

[diabeticdawn]

I think my body has become used to my high sugar levels. On Tuesday I started to test again and my initial test before tea was 10.3 - I know this is high, however this morning (Thursday) it was 14.7. This afternoon I had a head ache - I checked my levels and it was 8.9. Unfortunately, I don't work so the headache wasn't stress related and I am sure that I read somewhere that this was a symptom of low sugar - could my body have got used to the high levels and as such show symptoms of low blood sugar when they are above what NICE considers normal.? Any ideas - also I am taking antibiotics for a tooth infection. !

 

[Grazer]

I suppose the tooth infection could just as easily cause the headache. But the body does get used to high BGs, making us feel odd when they start to come down.

 

[jopar]

Yes the body can get used to running at high BG's... One of the reasons that T2 isn't picked up for a long time, it's said a T2 could be suffering with it for 5-10 years before any physical symptom becomes apparent, such as extra visit to the loo's, blurred vision infections etc.. As the blood glucose slowly creep up the body adjusts to the slightly higher new level...

Downside to this, if you drop the bg back into the normal range too quickly, you can feel awful and suffer phantom hypo's as the body struggles and protests to the newer lower/near normal levels..

 

[ladybird64]

Hi Dawn

Could be a multitude of reasons why you have the headache, there are a load of vicious viruses around now that are making people feel very ill indeed.

As the others have pointed out you can feel very rough if your sugars drop after a prolonged period of high levels but to have continuous high levels does a fair amount of silent damage. I had a look back through your previous posts (it's only polite when Im answering your post!) and I wonder if you are trying to manage your carb level in your diet at all? Lowering that often helps to bring your levels down..better to be a bit lower if you can manage it.

 

[diabeticdawn]

Thank you for all your replies - the trouble I am finding is that I only like three vegetables - carrots, peas and sprouts, I love fruit, bread and potatoes, so finding a balance where I am not always hungry is a real problem and I end up eating rubbish - which is either high in sugar or high in fat. I keep trying to diet and usually fall at the first fence. I wish that doctors prescribed a diet pill first before doling out diabetes medication, cause if its the fat around our middles that causes it surely this would be more beneficial or giving a actual diet that includes everything but obviously in smaller quantities which is what I am trying to do now.