• Please Remember: Members are only permitted to share their own experiences. Members are not qualified to give medical advice. Additionally, everyone manages their health differently. Please be respectful of other people's opinions about their own diabetes management.
  • We seem to be having technical difficulties with new user accounts. If you are trying to register please check your Spam or Junk folder for your confirmation email. If you still haven't received a confirmation email, please reach out to our support inbox: support.forum@diabetes.org.uk

Can't raise blood sugars

Status
This thread is now closed. Please contact Anna DUK, Ieva DUK or everydayupsanddowns if you would like it re-opened.
L

Luke Powell

New Member
Relationship to Diabetes
Type 1
Hi any advice?

I've been around 3.3 to 4.2 since about 8 o clock. I've just drunk a whole bottle of coke 500ml and it hasn't affected my readings at all!

I haven't done any different insulin to normal. Ive been t1 for 20 years and this has never happened before!
 
@Luke Powell .I hope you’re not feeling to rough.
Keep testing every 15 minutes and take your preferred hypo treatmeant .
If your worried or things start to get worse don’t hesitate to call your out of hours service for advise.
I’ve had this happen once and it is scary when the BG just won’t raise to a nice safe level.

How are you now

Welcome to the forum.
 
Up to 4.3 now. I've been sick a couple of times also. I will keep testing and sipping!

Thanks
 
  • Like
Reactions: Ljc
4.3 is better. , let’s hope it’ decides to behave itself now , I hope you don’t go too hyper.
Could it be you’re going down with something .
 
It's been quite warm for a few days now - could be you could do with reducing your insulin doses a bit. When it's warm, we do use insulin more efficiently whether it's made by our own body or jabbed in.

Was there any sign before of feeling you might throw up, or has it happened again since?
 
Hi. I went to sleep/passed out when my sugars reached 6. It took a while I think it was about 2 am!

I do still feel sick today so think I have a bug. Never been so happy go my sugars over 10 this morning though when I woke up!

Thanks for your advice. In 20 years something like that has never happened. I'm usually so in control!

Thanks again.
 
May I also enquire why you are still on Insulatard? Not one of the usual basal insulins used today - or indeed for the last 20 years! In fact I was swapped to Lantus in c.1999.

Not only is it a very old type of insulin, it also has 'peaks' - and if these happen to match what your body does naturally well fine, but otherwise - can be a nightmare.
 
Hi I am on novorapid and lantus. I may have selected wrong options when I set up my account last night!
 
Hi Luke, hope everything's back to normal now, unexplained lows like that can be quite scary.

I think there's also a scenario that @trophywench has mentioned before, where we can have a little "bubble" of insulin loitering. It does explain the rare unexpected low that we all get very occasionally. Hopefully Jenny may be able to pop back and clarify this...she's much better at explaining the technical bits than I am. 🙂
 
It's perfectly simple - insulin can sometimes sit there under the skin where we jabbed it, and not fully disperse.

Then one day - it does. So you go hypo for ages.

We have no way of knowing whether we have any, nor any way of proving that's what happened, when it happens.

Most people never experience this though, so it wouldn't be the first explanation I'd think of and it never crossed my mind at all in this case - much more likely to be the weather IMHO.
 
Status
This thread is now closed. Please contact Anna DUK, Ieva DUK or everydayupsanddowns if you would like it re-opened.
Back
Top