What and Why

[tonyJb]

Hi,
I'm type 2, at the top of my pill medication, now using slow insulin, I just like to share my results and ask why?
I had just come to the end of a anti biotics course.

Blood sugar readings with no symptoms of a Hypo, I normally get symptoms around 4.

13th July
6am 4.3
Lunch 18.9
2pm 3.6
2.30pm 1.8
Taken 6 glucose tablets reading 4.4 to do the school run, I'd run out of glucose tablets after that.
7pm after dinner 9.2
I have had morning and evening tablet medication but not insulin as my readings were on the low side.

14th July
3am woke to use the toilet, thought I'd check my bloods as they struggled to get to 5, I got 1.5
I did not sleep after that reading fearing I would not wake up.
4am 2.4
4.30 2.1
5.30 4.66
From 3am onwards I eat one orange, one apple, 15 to 20 grapes plus at least 5 or 6 digestives.
7.30am 2.2 after Breakfast cereal
8.45am 2.6
9.30am 4.3
10.30am 2.5
Eat loads of sweets to walk to the doctors for 10.50am
There it was 7.2
12.05pm 3.6
1pm after ham sandwich 17.2
1.30pm 4.3
2.30pm 3.30
3.30pm after grapes 4.30
4.pm 15.7 after peanuts !

I have not had any diabetic medicine all day on the 14th
It managed to right it’s self after the peanuts,the battle started again to reduce the sugar levels.
I can only surmise it was the antibiotics course I had just finished that had upset my stomach.
Am I correct in my asumption?
My doctor was stumped, he was going to tell me off for my high 7.4 three months test.

 

[serenity648]

Could have been the infection. I am still recovering from blood poisoning and my bloods went very wonky during the worst of it.

 

[mariavontrapp]

I don't want to cause alarm, but is 1.5 not a medical emergency? Even if you have been unwell or taking antibiotics your readings are seriously low. Are you more stable now?

 

[Chook]

Hello and welcome to the forum

What was your BG like before the antibiotics?

Have you tried using another meter? Or changing the battery in the one you're currently using?

I only ask because I get some very weird test results when the battery on my meter is on the way out.

 

[Lamont D]

Hi,
I'm type 2, at the top of my pill medication, now using slow insulin, I just like to share my results and ask why?
I had just come to the end of a anti biotics course.

Blood sugar readings with no symptoms of a Hypo, I normally get symptoms around 4.

13th July
6am 4.3
Lunch 18.9
2pm 3.6
2.30pm 1.8
Taken 6 glucose tablets reading 4.4 to do the school run, I'd run out of glucose tablets after that.
7pm after dinner 9.2
I have had morning and evening tablet medication but not insulin as my readings were on the low side.

14th July
3am woke to use the toilet, thought I'd check my bloods as they struggled to get to 5, I got 1.5
I did not sleep after that reading fearing I would not wake up.
4am 2.4
4.30 2.1
5.30 4.66
From 3am onwards I eat one orange, one apple, 15 to 20 grapes plus at least 5 or 6 digestives.
7.30am 2.2 after Breakfast cereal
8.45am 2.6
9.30am 4.3
10.30am 2.5
Eat loads of sweets to walk to the doctors for 10.50am
There it was 7.2
12.05pm 3.6
1pm after ham sandwich 17.2
1.30pm 4.3
2.30pm 3.30
3.30pm after grapes 4.30
4.pm 15.7 after peanuts !

I have not had any diabetic medicine all day on the 14th
It managed to right it’s self after the peanuts,the battle started again to reduce the sugar levels.
I can only surmise it was the antibiotics course I had just finished that had upset my stomach.
Am I correct in my asumption?
My doctor was stumped, he was going to tell me off for my high 7.4 three months test.

I have seen similar blood readings as such.
Unless your glucometer has something wrong with it.

For me the pattern is you star near enough in normal range blood levels?
You then spike very quickly, higher than it should be even if you are eating a carb or sugar laden meal?
Once you have spiked, your blood levels drop down to low levels and you don't normalised till the following day and even through the night you can get sub normal readings?

Your blood glucose levels are literally all over the place. Up and down?

The antibiotics, did they cause this? I'm trying to interpret what is happening.
You have not wrote what you ate to get those results!

I can't diagnose you but with T2, carb reduction is necessary!

 

[tonyJb]

Hello and welcome to the forum

What was your BG like before the antibiotics?

Have you tried using another meter? Or changing the battery in the one you're currently using?

I only ask because I get some very weird test results when the battery on my meter is on the way out.

They are between 6 to 8 on good days, the meter is still working