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Flo15

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My blood sugars have been in the teens for a nearly a week now. I have changed both levemir and rapid cartridge and even put more levemir in but they stay in the teens. I was 15.4 at 3pm where i put in six units of rapid and are now 16.4 at 4pm. I have ketones so drinking water to flush it out. As far as I know I have no infection of any sort, it just seems to stay constantly high. Any advice, I am type 2 .
 
Sorry no advice but please ring 111 or an out of hours doc if you have high bg levels and ketones. Or even go to hospital or call an ambulance, I know when my bg was high doc was concerned about ketones My urine was clear) but told me if ever in doubt ring 111 or go to a & e. The good folk on here reiterated that. What is the worst that can happen if you go, you sit for a few hours in a&e to be told all is ok, better than not going and getting worse.
 
I have been drinking water on and off for an hour, I will do another ketone check in a little while, it was about 1. My diabetes nurse said I don't have to worry about ketones as I am type 2 but I don't agree. I dont know why I can't get my bloods down , I keep correcting but it doesn't do much. Will check everything again in a bit and then see if I need to ring 111 . Thanks
 
I have been drinking water on and off for an hour, I will do another ketone check in a little while, it was about 1. My diabetes nurse said I don't have to worry about ketones as I am type 2 but I don't agree. I dont know why I can't get my bloods down , I keep correcting but it doesn't do much. Will check everything again in a bit and then see if I need to ring 111 . Thanks
I am type 2 as well and when I visited her as an emergency it was the first thing she checked for, I also know my non-diabetic daughter was admitted to hospital when she was 10 weeks pregnant due to ketones, I realise the being pregnant bit is important here, but if you are worried please seek medical attention, do you have someone with you at the moment?
 
Hi .i hope you can get your glucose levels down soon, I find often my diabetes knows I’m ill days before I do.
As far as I am aware, your nurse is wrong about keytones when we’re on insulin.
Have a read of thes sick day rules for insulin users. I’ve found them very helpful
http://www.uclh.nhs.uk/PandV/PIL/Patient information leaflets/Sick day rules – multiple daily injections.pdf

Please don’t hesitate to call your out of hours service if your at all worried or start to feel lol

What Rapid insulin are you on, if it’s Novo Rapid, there has been a faulty batch
@Kaylz has given the batch numbers on the first post
https://forum.diabetes.org.uk/boards/threads/novorapid-penfill-cartridges.72404/

Please let us know how you get on
 
Idont agree with the nurse about type 2 ketones, I wasn't allowed a blood tester where you could test for ketones so I resorted to buying a pot of the Bayer ones. Good news the ketones have gone thank goodness. Got my bloods down to 12 by doing crazy walking around my house for 30 minutes too. Will keep an eye on it and see if anything changes, thank you. I did have the possible faulty batch of novo rapid which I have been using for a week or so but changed to a different cartridge with different batch number last night.
 
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Finger crossed things are going to settle down back to normal soon.
It’s worrying when things like this happen isn’t it.
You take care ok .
 
Hi. What sort of diet do you have? Is it low-carb? Do you have any excess weight? These things can have an effect on BS control
 
Idont agree with the nurse about type 2 ketones, I wasn't allowed a blood tester where you could test for ketones so I resorted to buying a pot of the Bayer ones. Good news the ketones have gone thank goodness. Got my bloods down to 12 by doing crazy walking around my house for 30 minutes too. Will keep an eye on it and see if anything changes, thank you. I did have the possible faulty batch of novo rapid which I have been using for a week or so but changed to a different cartridge with different batch number last night.
Pleased to hear ketones have gone and bgs are coming down. I bought myself a pack of the ketone pee sticks after doc mentioned how serious having them with high bg was.
 
Hi. What sort of diet do you have? Is it low-carb? Do you have any excess weight? These things can have an effect on BS control
I have 8 carbs for breakfast, 15 -20 carbs for lunch and about 30 carbs for tea. I am over weight , I put on four stone after starting insulin 10 years ago, i wad 8.5 stone when diagnosed with diabetes but have recently lost 10 lbs which I hope to keep doing. I have strong dawn phenomen and also insulin resistance, I take metformin to help with this. I don't think my levemir is 100 per cent correct dose but trying to work it all out. I have put in ten units of rapid for my 25 carb tea tonight and now at 10mmol which is lowest i have been for days .
 
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Pleased to hear ketones have gone and bgs are coming down. I bought myself a pack of the ketone pee sticks after doc mentioned how serious having them with high bg was.

Yes they are what i bought myself too, just in case. x
 
Well as I am back to mid teens I wondered if my insulin has gone off. I checked the fridge and tookthe temperature and it is about 13 where the insulin is stored, insulin does not feel cold. So I have put rapid in again and drinking water again. I will see if the pharmacy can change my insulin to a new pack and see if that helps. Not going to get much sleep tonight I think.
 
Oh no. Good job you checked the temperature where you store your insulin . I hope the pharmacy can help .
But if this doesn’t solve the problem you need to contact your team - nurse ASAP.
Got everything crossed for you.
 
Thank you, will phone them when they open and see what they say. Have turned up the fridge up and the temperature of the cartridges is now 14 degrees c. I slept on and off on the sofa so I could set alarms to test and not wake the others up, the dog was happy though having some company. I hope in a way it is the cardridges as I have no other idea why I am having high blood sugars.
 
Pharmacy say that he has never known insulin to go off and that it should be ok to be out of the fridge for a month anyway. So now got to phone my diabetes nurse.
 
Pharmacy say that he has never known insulin to go off and that it should be ok to be out of the fridge for a month anyway. So now got to phone my diabetes nurse.
Hope the nurse can help you, seems like your sleeping arrangements were a winner with the dog lol.
 
Hope the nurse can help you, seems like your sleeping arrangements were a winner with the dog lol.
lol about the dog, she stole the sofa so I slept upright on the chair! Didn't dare move her she looked so comfy.
 
@Flo15 insulin can go off, just because your pharmacy haven't had a known case doesn't mean it doesn't happen! lol, it could've been in transit to them or anything, anyways hope you manage to get things solved and sorted soon my lovely and hope you don't feel too rough, good luck! 🙂 xx
 
Spoke to nurse, got a prescription for both novo rapid and levemir. Bloods have been nearly perfect since 10 am typical but feeling better but did change cardtridge and even the insulin pen for this mornings levemir.
 
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