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Message: <blockquote data-quote="kitedoc" data-source="post: 1973071" data-attributes="member: 468714">Thank you [USER=497182]@H7DNA[/USER] .  As a diabetic, not as professional advice or opinion:Have you spoken with your doctor about your BSLs? You are aware that your BSLs are very high at times? For you a BSL greater than say 7.8 mmol/l is above normal range.It would appear that your Ulcerative colitis, an inflammatory bowel disease, is causing body stress which is reflected in your largely uncontrolled BSLs. BSLs that Metformin is not proving capable of controlling.The stress of being up so often to the loo and missing out on good quality sleep would not be likely to be helping either.You may be aware that UC treatment often involves steroids, which cause raised BSLs also. Uncontrolled UC may cause you to lose a significant amount of blood also.It is like being between the devil and the deep blue sea.Please talk with your GP, endo and gastro doctors to develop a combined plan.You need something to control the bowel inflammation or your diabetes will be difficult to control.You need a better way of keeping your BSLs under control.It is a complicated balance. Your GP needs to co-ordinate this with the two specialists so everyone is on the same page and not working at cross purposes. Ideally some UC treatment with minimal steroid doses ? faecal transplant.Best Wishes and please do not delay. Your health appears to be deteriorating.</blockquote>

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