What to do?

BS 15-25 range.
Urine ketones medium/large.
Fever.
Nausea, some vomiting.
Thirsty, hungry sort of - need 'energy' but too darned tired to eat, feel weak, on-off confused - drink loads, pee all the time.
Called NHS Direct (other country, same difference) - reply: Stop testing, you'll just upset yourself. No diabetic, even on insulin should test more than 2 times a day. Nope, you should definately not up your insulin, you'll just hypo. Just go to bed.
Cannot turn up at a&e in this country without having been given the yes from a doc at... the out of hours service who know nowt about diabetes.

I should theoretically have some insulin of my own, but clearly not enough at the moment, and my dose does not do the trick. Have upped it to about double on my novorapid today.

I'm furious. Am I expected to just wait for a coma?

What the heck does one do?

Remembered I have some anti-sickness meds that I rarely use - have it for my migraines. So far a couple hours without vomiting - loads of water in small mountfuls, raisins for the potassium and sugar, and another big dose of NovoRapid. Blood sugar down to 9 ish now. Fever only some 38.4 now, definately better.

I am stunned too. 'There's a train coming at me' 'Don't worry, just close your eyes and you won't notice' '***'

Have a mate who works very late - gave him my spare key earlier, he'll check on me on way home in 3 hours time.

I don't think I need an ambulance - I breathe normally and now the numbers are finally reacting, and I'm getting some fluids on board at least.

That doc will hear more from me though - what if I were an old lady, or someone with a small child... Shocking. I've never heard anything like it. Normally, they're daft, but not stupid.

Far better today. Still shivering and tired and all that flu stuff but deffo not as carpy as last night.

I was never given any information about sick day rules or anything like that, so must admit I was pretty confused and upset about it. I hate when I don't know what's going on or what to do and all I get from them are rubbish answers.

I must say I wasn't aware of the need for glucose - now I know. It felt a bit counter-intuitive at first but makes sense when you think about it. Just feels like maddening amounts of insulin - was afraid suddenly something would change and I'd have overdosed.

Being LADA isn't always easy, heh. Doc last night was pretty convinced this type of diabetes didn't even exist, so it gets hard to trust her advice on anything really. She even had time to explain to me that there was no need for me to reduce insulin dose pre-exercise, I should just not test and eat more apples on the go. Still fuming.

I just know that I 'just about manage' with my bit of insulin normally, but when I have surgery, am ill or whatever, I go pretty much type1 - my insulin and injections just don't keep up. It seems very hard for everyone including me probably, to understand that this isn't a stable thing - one day I get by on 12 units of insulin for my 'big boned' self, other times I can triple that and I'm still short, and sometimes my 8 units basal will see me hypo if I don't reduce pre-exercise. Joy sometimes.

Thanks all for the help, ideas and reassurance. I still sometimes freak out when it does things I don't expect and can't seem to control....