Sickness bug and low sugar level

Swankypants77 said:

I recently picked up stomach bug from my daughter and I had a bit of high temp and felt like I had a flu such as achy body. I also had a stomach pain and indigestion.

Since that day, my sugar level has been weird. I hardly need any bolus insulin for what I eat. I was injecting 1 unit for 10g before and had been fine, but when I slightly recovered from the illness, I gave myself the usual amount at night, I had terrible hypo. Since that day I reduced the bolus amount quite a lot, but still had hypo. Now I only give myself just 1 or 1.5 for whatever I eat and however much I eat! So strange.
I'm wondering if the illness triggered the honeymoon period or just the stomach bug is blocking or slowing down the food digestion...
I haven't been throwing up at all even though it was stomach bug. Just mild pain, bit of indigestion. ( and flu like symptom on the first day only).

If someone had the same experience, please let me know.

Thank you.


Well, not same but bit like in ways - if you are like me, things will get back to normal, may take months, but be careful to eat more. Mine all started with a v strange unusual hypo as i got off a bus, I could not move, legs like lead, just about managed to eat 9 glucose tabs, and get home, shaking, later seemed that was the start of a sudden stomach bug - with stomach cramps, felt v.sick, ached all over, all old injuries ached, could not eat , not sick kept feeling sick, difficult to drink, exhausted, and the normal insulin use rise i expect - double, then a third more, days went by, then i could eat soups and over weeks and weeks at last i could eat normally but in that time no pattern to insulin/carb , except LESS insulin use, had high carbs went back to injections for boluses for a while as thought it was the pump but it was not, yes it seemed like i might be going to be cured, so little insulin - worked out in the end that in my case over 50% of food not getting absorbed, it was not possible to put on the wt i had lost while v.ill even with high cals and carbs, was so so weak got chest infection, lots of antibiotics later, just ok, normal regarding insulin and food. Take care

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