My husband (age 49) has T2 and been diabetic for 5 years and has been taking medication from day one. He's not been good at diet, was smoking and has stopped and has cut back on drinking alcohol. He recently has been told to take insulin injection (Lantus) as well as his pancreas is not doing it's job. This week (since Monday) he has been v unwell, tired, headache, v lethargic, shooting pains in arms, legs, feet. Went to Dr on Wednesday with a view to thinking it was a virus. Dr took bloods and said his blood sugar levels were so high he needed to go to A & E. Went to A & E (could hardly stay awake), they did tests - bloods, urine, ecg, chest xray and pumped him through with drips. They kept him in over night with a drip all night and checked his bloods every two hours. He was allowed home in the late afternoon with a level of 15. That night I called 111 as levels were 25 and told A & E would be a good idea but not essential, he was having none of it and said he would go to dr in morning. I monitored his bloods every two hours through the night and they did go down. Up again in the morning and he went to the doctor who didn't check his bloods but did check ketones in urine which were not alarming. She thinks he's got flu/virus and told to rest and monitor bloods and that's pushing results up. Today he is still not right, bloods have been 18.2 and 24.8 and he is still lethargic but definitely not falling asleep all the time. Just wondered if anyone had experienced this and if it was just caused by a virus or had any advice? He is going back to try to see diabetic nurse on Monday at our Drs. He;s stubborn and I am generally wrong and worrying too much (haha)
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Advice please
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Mark Parrott
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I'm wondering if he has been mis-diagnosed. They are very high blood sugar levels & although it can happen with Type 2, it is rare.
trophywench
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Just because the ketones aren't high enough to make a GP say OMG you are Type 1 - does NOT mean to say that when he has whatever they think he has, flu, other virus, whatever - his body doesn't need a lot more help at the moment than Lantus can give it.
It does the body no good whatsoever, in fact it causes POSITIVE harm having blood glucose levels that high for more than a couple of days - and of course, also hinders the body fighting infections and healing anything else that happens to be happening at the same time (eg little cuts refusing to heal at the minor end, and anything worse than a little cut, then worse bad effects)
Get him back to the doctors - could you go with him?
It does the body no good whatsoever, in fact it causes POSITIVE harm having blood glucose levels that high for more than a couple of days - and of course, also hinders the body fighting infections and healing anything else that happens to be happening at the same time (eg little cuts refusing to heal at the minor end, and anything worse than a little cut, then worse bad effects)
Get him back to the doctors - could you go with him?
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