Type 1 Surgery

Diabetes1elmo93 said:

Now I'm having keyhole surgery to my stomach on 21 July my pre assessment was last October I forgot really what I've got to do before going in. Also how high are your blood sugars aloud to be before they say they are to high. So many questions I'm getting seriously worried as never had surgery with type one before....

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Hi,

I can appreciate it's all a little bit bewildering. Could you not ask your specialist coordinating the procedure..
I know when I was having anti VEGF eye jabs a couple of years back for a macula edema, the BG window was between something like 4.6mmol & 14.5?? Which I felt was rather generous.

But it's best you ask your consultant for clarity.

Best wishes.

I can say surgery is scary. I had minor surgery and then a major surgery 4 years ago at two different hospitals. I don't know about the UK, but in the US it depends on each hospital what they do and require. Make sure you talk to your diabetes team beforehand about what your doses should be the morning of your surgery, I would also make sure I talk to the anesthesiologist right before surgery to confirm you are a type 1. Here at least they are the ones that monitor your blood sugars while in surgery, so it's best to make sure they know.

Diabetes1elmo93 said:

I'm going to ask as it was a surprised phone call and I agreed on the date and forgot the question. However I've Googled and found nothing.
I really want just some general advice on how people who had routine surgery how they was after operation. Can blood sugar being affected with being put to sleep. Lol loads of question my mind running

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I've had surgery under GA a few times, it didn't really change my blood glucose readings at all. The main problem for me was that post-op my hospital insists you eat a piece of toast. (I'm sure there's a reason, I just didn't absorb it at the time). Next time I'm writing down "my insulin dose per slice of toast is X units" and taking it in.

The worst I had was a tooth extraction, bg went up by 2 mmol/l . I didn't treat it, it came back down after two hours, so don't rush to treat a spike immediately after surgery.

Good luck.

Diabetes1elmo93 said:

Now I'm having keyhole surgery to my stomach on 21 July my pre assessment was last October I forgot really what I've got to do before going in. Also how high are your blood sugars aloud to be before they say they are to high. So many questions I'm getting seriously worried as never had surgery with type one before....

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You may find that you will need another pre op assessment anyway as it will have been 8 months since the last one so you can double check then.