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Hi. After you have managed to reduce your blood sugar and ketones following some of the advice above probably going to A&E if needed, I think you may need to check your insulin balance with the nurse. It's possible your background insulin needs tweaking up a bit and the nurse can guide you. If you are not carb-counting i.e. adjusting your meal-time insulin to match the mealtime carbs then do ask the nurse for guidance. Do come back if you need more guidance but hopefully your surgery or clinic nurse can help you. Going into DKA should be a very rare event once the insulin is a balanced although some people are an exception.
 
Robynberrill said:
Thanks everyone for last night. My BS are back down to normal now and my ketones and fine x
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Hi robynberrill, good to see your ok today,may i recommend a book by dr richard bernstein: diabetes explained 4 th edition, here he explains how to adjust insulin doses and what to do in the event of.... I have found his work to be very useful.clive
 
Glad you are ok. Don't forget to ask for a whole lot more ketone testing strips.
 
Robynberrill said:
Picked up my prescription and they didn't even put ketone strips on it so they didn't even know about them
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That's not uncommon unfortunately. I used to have ketone sticks on my prescription but they were taken off. It took my DSN phoning them to get me some, and even now they won't put them on my repeat prescription.

Try giving your surgery a ring first and see if they'll do a prescription for you. If you have trouble, you could phone your DSN or hosputal team.
 
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