Introduction

[Steverpayne]

Hi, I'm new here type 2 I've just started on metformin and I'm on insulin 1 at night and 3 before meals when I got diagnosed my BS levels were 29.9 I've only been on the insulin since Tuesday morning anyhow I've started feeling funny and I've checked my BS and it's 23.6 I was told my BS needed to be below 4 for me to be having a hypo but I feel so bad

 

[stillgoing]

Hi sorry to hear you feel so bad. Type 1 myself so can confirm unlikely to be hypo. Hold on I an sure some type 2 experts will see your post soon. It might just be the rapid reduction in BS levels. That can make me feel bad!

 

[SB2015]

Hi, I'm new here type 2 I've just started on metformin and I'm on insulin 1 at night and 3 before meals when I got diagnosed my BS levels were 29.9 I've only been on the insulin since Tuesday morning anyhow I've started feeling funny and I've checked my BS and it's 23.6 I was told my BS needed to be below 4 for me to be having a hypo but I feel so bad

Did they discuss the carb content of your meals. Any carbs that you eat will be changed into glucose once inside your body , and that is what increases your glucose levels.

With a glucose level of 23.6 you will definitely not be having a hypo. As they told you a hypo occurs when you are below 4. With a level like that after a meal it would be worth you getting back to your Nurse and discuss your results alongside a food diary recording the amount of carbs you are eating at each meal. If you can record your BG both before a meal and also two hours after a meal this will help you work with your nurse to make appropriate changes to either insulin doses or your carbs at meals.

It can take time to get the appropriate doses, so contact them.

 

[Kaylz]

Some hypo symptoms are also symptoms of a hyper which is what you were experiencing with levels in the 20's xx

 

[trophywench]

How long had you been diagnosed before they started you on insulin?

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Sorry to hear about your diagnosis @Steverpayne

Yikes your BGs do sound punishingly high. I guess they will be trying to bring them down gradually, as it’s gentler on your fine blood vessels, but it would be well worth checking with your clinic to ask about adjusting your doses.

Do you have away of checking for ketones? if you get pear drop breath, or abdominal pain, or vomiting it would be wise to call NHS111 or go to A&E in case you have been misclassified and need more T1-style treatment?

 

[Steverpayne]

Been Intouch with my diabetic nurse today and she as adjusted my tresiba to 15 units today from 10 it's a long story but it's just one complex issue with my body they found a brain tumor so I'm on meds for that aswell and the problem with the meds it makes me so sick so I have to eat something to take the sickness away so that's why I'm on tresiba and then novarapid 3 times a day before meals so I can still have food if I need to from being sick

 

[Steverpayne]

How long had you been diagnosed before they started you on insulin?

Hi, I've been diagnosed since 2017 type 2 so I was diet controlled upto november but they started me on metformin in November last year with some other medication all at the same time and I started getting confused and forgetting and I'd been getting very severe headaches at this time aswell so my doctor at the tune sent me for a scan and told me to pause the metformin to see if it was that making me confused but the scan came back and they found the tumor so that's why I had paused and never got back on the metformin till this week when I started it again hope this helps

 

[trophywench]

Thanks, yes it helps a bit but now raises the questions, Where's the tumour and what are the NHS doing about it? It's not on your pancreas or near it, is it?

 

[Steverpayne]

Thanks, yes it helps a bit but now raises the questions, Where's the tumour and what are the NHS doing about it? It's not on your pancreas or near it, is it?

Hi, no it's a purtuity tumor about the sise of a brasil nut