Yo-yo Blood Sugars

Hi @Ermintrude775 and welcome to the forum.

In my experience, antibiotics can affect BGs, and they can also cause a range of side effects in people who have long term conditions. I have chronic fatigue syndrome and more, and I find I am sensitive to most medications. But when I need antibiotics it's case of trying a different one, or toughing it out because I can't afford for an infection to get worse.

I have been on Fluclox several times and the difficulty is there are few good alternatives to it, outside of being a hospital inpatient. From memory, you have to take this one well before or after meals? That might make BG control even trickier.

It may be worth seeking advice from your nurse or GP. If you can't access them in a reasonable time frame you may need to seek urgent care.

There are also sick day rules for insulin users that you probably have on hand at home. If not, there is info about that subject in various forum threads.

Hope this helps and that you feel better soon.

I suspect it is more likely that the infection for which your have been prescribed antibiotics is the culprit.
Infection is a stress on the body and that stress causes insulin to be less effective. In other words infection tends to increase insulin resistance, until the infection is cured.
So the antibiotics are the innocent party.
I find with an infection I need to increase my insulin, in the past basal and bolus regime and now insulin pump by at least 20% and often higher ( e.g. after a flu vaccination, which is another kind of 'infection' the body has to deal with, my total dosage is > 30 % for 4 days at least).
I only know that the infection is getting much better when my blood sugars start to fall further and hypos become imminent.

Hi @Ermintrude775 It really does depend on what your infection is, some will as Kitedoc say push your BG levels high as your body fights the infection, some people have reported an adverse response to antibiotics too suggesting that this has caused them to run higher, however it's unwise to stop taking your medication without consulting your GP first, you will need to review your correction ratios though, so if in doubt speak to your nurse about adjusting this to counter the high BG levels. Personally I find that once I am running at +12mmol/l that I need to increase my correction dose by 20% and the higher this goes the more I need to increase my ratio, with careful monitoring each hour to check. To be fair it's the same as kitedoc as my meter will tell me how well my body is coping with the infection as I can then see when my levels fall back into range that the worst is over and I then need to be careful about going low.

Please also let me know if you wish to access your other account and I can get the team to look into this for you ?

Hi @Ermintrude775

Ouch, this kind of injury and infection hurts a lot, I remember. It sounds like it's improving with the antibiotics? I hope so.