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Stuartpaterson87

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Hi all

I have been in and out of hospital over the past 4 5 years with DKA, it always comes at a time when my control is good. I keep being told when I go in that I have an underlying infection. Get the usual treatment of sliding scale and the copious bags of saline. As soon as my ketones return to normal I am packed of home with no follow ups with regards the infection or anything.

I have a chest infection and a throat infection at the moment thankfully I am on top of my sugars and have not had a reading above 10 since Thursday but am so worried this is gonna end up putting me in hospital.

Does anyone know if stress can affect ketones at all I know it can have an affect on sugars.

Sorry if that makes no sense.

Stuart
 
Well yes Suart! - stress increases your BG as you've said, which in turn of itself, leads to Ketones when the BG gets high enough and stays there for a bit.

They aren't two separated mechanisms IYSWIM. Except if they are dietary ketones from low carbing - but your BG wouldn't be high in that case. The DKA sort should always be found in tandem with higher BGs.

Do you know about taking the correct correction doses for the appropriate level of BG? - cos normal correction rates don't cut it really.

http://www.diabetes-support.org.uk/info/?page_id=141

Incidentally I found when I had stress, and didn't yet have ketones, if I gave even a normal correction I'd hypo. Mine was panic attacks though mainly, so I'd be up and down multiple times daily. Nearly went insane - literally. My DSN suggested to try having HALF my normal correction rate as soon as I was sure I was heading upwards - OK it didn't bring me down to 6.0 or something, but it stopped me going too high too quick and kept me out of A&E. {{{Hugs}}}
 
Hope you're feeling better today Stuart & the BGs are behaving! 🙂
 
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