BS disastorous results - looking for some comments / help please

[bev]

Hi Gill,

23 hypos in 5 days!😱Like 'Sofaraway' said I am wondering why you havent dropped your BI as advised by your DSN? I think everyone is hoping that you can get your levels sorted but without your input its a little difficult. There have been quite a few questions that have gone unanswered. Do you have any ideas of what to do to get your levels sorted out?🙂Bev

 

[mum2westiesGill]

Whats the reason you haven't followed your DSN's advice re the BI?

It was Thursday 08/11/2012 when I saw my DSN & last Monday 05/11/2012 when I upped my BI dose so I was waiting until Monday 12/11/2012 tomorrow before I alter it again this time being reduced from 42u to 36u. I was waiting because I thought it was 3 or 4 days or even a week before you can make any changes with Lantus.

 

[Northerner]

It was Thursday 08/11/2012 when I saw my DSN & last Monday 05/11/2012 when I upped my BI dose so I was waiting until Monday 12/11/2012 tomorrow before I alter it again this time being reduced from 42u to 36u. I was waiting because I thought it was 3 or 4 days or even a week before you can make any changes with Lantus.

You're correct Gill, it's usually best to wait two to three days between making changes to lantus 🙂

 

[mum2westiesGill]

You're correct Gill, it's usually best to wait two to three days between making changes to lantus 🙂

Thank you. Tonight I've done 42u then tomorrow night I'm going to do 36u. Then we will see!!!

There's quite a contrast in those numbers to what you were posting before Gill - so many hypos 😱 As Sue says, what do you think you might need to do to get some stability in the 'middle ground'? Where do you think the problem might be, basal or meal ratios?

As you say there's a contrast there & I'm just totally baffled! What to do???

Don't know if it's right or wrong but I've had a beef paste sandwich tonight for supper eek!!

 

[trophywench]

Gill

I wish you would do your own thing with your insulin rather than just keep waiting for your DSN to OK it.

YOU treat your diabetes. Not any doctor or any DSN. YOU.

Now, (and this is a Q for you to answer in your head, I don't need to know the actual answer!) why are you taking Citalopram? If it's for depression or anxiety (which I had and was why I took it, I also had panic attacks) it was a ******* when it stopped or wasn't so bad for a day or two, because I was suddenly hypo. It was utterly amazing how much all that mental c**p affected my blood sugar. And that actually wound me up even more esp bearing in mind it was just PEOPLE (ie specific ones not the human race generally) who were doing this to my head. But on the days when I didn't need to worry about those people (LOL ie Saturday and Sunday and any Bank Holiday) I had instant improvements to my BG.

So are you getting a bit less carp thrown at you at the mo or something?

Or could it have been your old pen just wasn't functioning?

Or did you have your period and you suddenly need to take extra insulin for that even though you never have before, or is it the 'change' starting, or have you had eg a pee infection that you didn't know about?

Or was it the cold weather starting and now your body has got used to it again?

LOL - but they are all possibilities and you do need to have a bloody good think and see 'What is different/ What WAS different?' - and we can't do that for you.

 

[mum2westiesGill]

Gill

I wish you would do your own thing with your insulin rather than just keep waiting for your DSN to OK it.

YOU treat your diabetes. Not any doctor or any DSN. YOU.

Hi trophywench,

Thank you very much for your post on my thread.

I wish I would do this a bit more often & I have done this sometimes in the past in between 6 monthly appointments then when I go for my appointment I just tell my DSN what I'm taking at the time & she advises / looks at my print off of results and gives her opinion, then......like you say it should be back over to ME!!

At the end of the day it's MY body not the doctor or DSN's body.

 

[mum2westiesGill]

Now, (and this is a Q for you to answer in your head, I don't need to know the actual answer!) why are you taking Citalopram? If it's for depression or anxiety (which I had and was why I took it, I also had panic attacks) it was a ******* when it stopped or wasn't so bad for a day or two, because I was suddenly hypo. It was utterly amazing how much all that mental c**p affected my blood sugar. And that actually wound me up even more esp bearing in mind it was just PEOPLE (ie specific ones not the human race generally) who were doing this to my head. But on the days when I didn't need to worry about those people (LOL ie Saturday and Sunday and any Bank Holiday) I had instant improvements to my BG.

So are you getting a bit less carp thrown at you at the mo or something?

Or could it have been your old pen just wasn't functioning?

Or did you have your period and you suddenly need to take extra insulin for that even though you never have before, or is it the 'change' starting, or have you had eg a pee infection that you didn't know about?

Or was it the cold weather starting and now your body has got used to it again?

LOL - but they are all possibilities and you do need to have a bloody good think and see 'What is different/ What WAS different?' - and we can't do that for you.

I really don't mind saying on the forum, I'm open to most things lol. I take Citalopram for depression. Started on them in ? (probably 4/5 yrs ago) and have been great until another mini bout which started in August / September just. My friend took me off to the drs and the dr put my dosage up from 10mg to 20mg.

So maybe it could my BG has been affected by the higher dosage of Citalopram & the fact I'm extremely calm, relaxed & not stressed atm.

Or maybe it's my old pen

Or........like you say there's a never ending list of possibilities.

 

[scotstigress]

wow whiskey, those readings look really really familiar lol mines are the same as u can see from my 'bloody sugars' post....i think from what ive read on here and what others are replying, splitting the basal is defo the way to go, im going to start splitting mine tomorrow, probably a 15/5 split. i have the DSN on 26th so im hoping it will settle before i see her. ive split before but kept forgetting to take the second injection 😱 but, with my HbA1c now above 10, and the effect its having on my moods, its time to give it another try. good luck in sorting them out. 🙂