Hi Everyone, my name is Dave and I'm from the West Midlands. I have had a pretty scary ride over the past couple of years as I managed to become addicted to painkillers which eventually led to me seeking treatment and being put on a drug called Buprenorphine. I take 10mg of said drug daily and I am monitored regularly at the rehab centre.
Since being put on this drug I have had an immense craving for sugar and all things sweet (I already had a sweet tooth before any of this happened). After almost 2 years of treatment I noticed some symptoms such as needing to pee a lot more, incredible thirst, headaches that can't be relieved with paracetamol/ibuprofen, sleeping all the time - day & night and some blurred vision. I recently bought some glucose urine test strips which were showing not high but moderate amounts of glucose in my pee. I then bought a blood sugar testing kit (Gluco Rd Nexus), and so far I've done 2 tests.
Test 1: 2 hours after eating dinner and the results were showing as 11.2 mmol/l
Test 2: I did this one this morning after fasting for 10 hours and the reading was 7.2 mmol/l
I have checked online and I see that this is classed as high for someone who hasn't been diagnosed with diabetes. Should I be going to see my gp straight away or should I do more testing first? I have put 3 stone on since being put on Buprenorphine and my Mom is type 1 diabetic. I am currently 18 stone 8 pounds.
Any help would be massively appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
Dave B
Since being put on this drug I have had an immense craving for sugar and all things sweet (I already had a sweet tooth before any of this happened). After almost 2 years of treatment I noticed some symptoms such as needing to pee a lot more, incredible thirst, headaches that can't be relieved with paracetamol/ibuprofen, sleeping all the time - day & night and some blurred vision. I recently bought some glucose urine test strips which were showing not high but moderate amounts of glucose in my pee. I then bought a blood sugar testing kit (Gluco Rd Nexus), and so far I've done 2 tests.
Test 1: 2 hours after eating dinner and the results were showing as 11.2 mmol/l
Test 2: I did this one this morning after fasting for 10 hours and the reading was 7.2 mmol/l
I have checked online and I see that this is classed as high for someone who hasn't been diagnosed with diabetes. Should I be going to see my gp straight away or should I do more testing first? I have put 3 stone on since being put on Buprenorphine and my Mom is type 1 diabetic. I am currently 18 stone 8 pounds.
Any help would be massively appreciated.
Thank you in advance!
Dave B