Hi
My wife Veronika has recently been diagnosed as type 2, and we are very confused about things.
She was ill with what we thought, and still think, was heat exhaustion. The dr sent her for a blood test on a Friday, then the emergency weekend dr telephoned on Saturday afternoon. Within a couple of hours she was in hospital on drips as her blood sugar level was 37.
6 days later she came home, she has to inject twice a day and had instructions to eat plenty of carbohydrates - bread, potatoes etc with every meal, and snacks in between meals too. She is doing everything right, but her readings are all over the place. For example this morning at 7 it was 9.8, then she had breakfast of toast. At 1030 it was 3.8, so she had 100 ml lucozade as instructed. Then she had cereal and strawberries, this is exactly as she was instructed by the hospital, but resulted in a sugar level of over 17.
We think maybe the insulin dose is too high, she has to keep eating when she doesn't want to so she doesn't hypo. And on here we've read about reducing carbs, but she's been told to increase them. All very confusing, she is doing really well with the injections etc but doesn't seem to be making any progress with keeping her sugar levels stable. She still has blurred vision, this went a couple of days after she went into hospital, but returned when she came home, and the diabetic nurse said it could take 3 months to return to normal. She is frightened to sleep at night without having 2 or 3 fig rolls to up her level, as it drops like a stone overnight.
And then there's the wind! She's really bloated and uncomfortable after eating, and embarrassed to go anywhere because she can't control the farts. We bought some charcoal tablets but are unsure about her taking them. The chemist recommended "Colpermin" in case it's IBS, but they didn't help.
I'll be back on here later on, any advice anybody can offer will be much appreciated.
Duncan
My wife Veronika has recently been diagnosed as type 2, and we are very confused about things.
She was ill with what we thought, and still think, was heat exhaustion. The dr sent her for a blood test on a Friday, then the emergency weekend dr telephoned on Saturday afternoon. Within a couple of hours she was in hospital on drips as her blood sugar level was 37.
6 days later she came home, she has to inject twice a day and had instructions to eat plenty of carbohydrates - bread, potatoes etc with every meal, and snacks in between meals too. She is doing everything right, but her readings are all over the place. For example this morning at 7 it was 9.8, then she had breakfast of toast. At 1030 it was 3.8, so she had 100 ml lucozade as instructed. Then she had cereal and strawberries, this is exactly as she was instructed by the hospital, but resulted in a sugar level of over 17.
We think maybe the insulin dose is too high, she has to keep eating when she doesn't want to so she doesn't hypo. And on here we've read about reducing carbs, but she's been told to increase them. All very confusing, she is doing really well with the injections etc but doesn't seem to be making any progress with keeping her sugar levels stable. She still has blurred vision, this went a couple of days after she went into hospital, but returned when she came home, and the diabetic nurse said it could take 3 months to return to normal. She is frightened to sleep at night without having 2 or 3 fig rolls to up her level, as it drops like a stone overnight.
And then there's the wind! She's really bloated and uncomfortable after eating, and embarrassed to go anywhere because she can't control the farts. We bought some charcoal tablets but are unsure about her taking them. The chemist recommended "Colpermin" in case it's IBS, but they didn't help.
I'll be back on here later on, any advice anybody can offer will be much appreciated.
Duncan
