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Nausea

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ClaudiaKiwi

ClaudiaKiwi

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hi everyone
Just wondering if anyone else gets nausea quite a bit / at times ?
I’ve been feeling really headachey and nauseous quite a bit last few days. Blood glucose levels are ok - all between 4-8 and I’m testing regularly as I’m still learning how I react to some foods etc.
My eyes remain really blurry and am using the good old 3.5’s cheapie specs until my blurred vision settles. There has been a slight improvement.
I’m working from home so as to give myself a bit of quiet time, eating well and in the main I’m sleeping well.
Just feel really ugh.
I thought I may have been headed for a hypo this morning (I’ve had a few and really don’t like them) as I feel a little shaky and just not great. Tested and it was 6.5 so no hypo.
Any thoughts ?
Thanks so much in advance. 🙂
 
Sorry you haven't had an answer before.
Feeling hypo at 6.5mmol/l in early days of treated type 1 diabetes isn't unusual, as your body has got used to higher levels, so lower than previous high levels feel hypo.
You're right not to get new glasses until your sight settles down, which often takes a few weeks.
 
Hi Claudia, as copepod said in the early stages it is not unusual to get hypo feelings at higher BG. If you feel ‘hypo’ just test. No need to treat it with extra glucose at those either levels. I was told to treat it if it was below 4 with some quick acting glucose. What do you use for hypos.
 
SB2015 said:
Hi Claudia, as copepod said in the early stages it is not unusual to get hypo feelings at higher BG. If you feel ‘hypo’ just test. No need to treat it with extra glucose at those either levels. I was told to treat it if it was below 4 with some quick acting glucose. What do you use for hypos.
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Hiya
I’ve been told to use lucozade or cola and jelly beans etc. I’ve kept fruit pastilles in my bag and have only used them once when I was 3.9 and feeling really unwell, sweaty and shaky etc. The pastilles worked perfectly.
It’s useful to know that in the early days I can feel hypo at say 6.5 like you say - I hadn’t thought about body being used to higher BG levels but it all makes sense really doesn’t it !
Can’t wait for my eyes to improve as they are driving me absolutely insane.
Thanks for the support !
Thanks to you both. Appreciated
 
ClaudiaKiwi said:
hi everyone
Just wondering if anyone else gets nausea quite a bit / at times ?
I’ve been feeling really headachey and nauseous quite a bit last few days. Blood glucose levels are ok - all between 4-8 and I’m testing regularly as I’m still learning how I react to some foods etc.
My eyes remain really blurry and am using the good old 3.5’s cheapie specs until my blurred vision settles. There has been a slight improvement.
I’m working from home so as to give myself a bit of quiet time, eating well and in the main I’m sleeping well.
Just feel really ugh.
I thought I may have been headed for a hypo this morning (I’ve had a few and really don’t like them) as I feel a little shaky and just not great. Tested and it was 6.5 so no hypo.
Any thoughts ?
Thanks so much in advance. 🙂
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Your post reminds me of my first month and I felt much worse than before diagnose. The blurry vision was horrible and I remember the headaches and the exhaustion. Not sure I felt nauseous though but then we are all different and there are also many bugs around. Do ask your specialist team if it carries on though as you shouldn't be feeling worse. I agree with the comments from the others about hypos, sometimes when I am falling fast I can have symptoms too.
It sounds like you are doing very well and hope you feel better soon.
 
Hi Claudia

My eyes took a while to settle, but once they did I was back to where I was before diagnosis, and my glasses worked perfectly again. (The opticians who had made me new specs when I had gone before I realised I had Diabetes, refunded my money and made me a new pair of the correct prescription)
 
Nausea can be a hypo symptom, perhaps these are false hypos as others have said.
 
I have felt nauseous around 6 5/7 but i think thats because my levels were over 33.3! So anything lower is going to feel strange.
And i have found it handy to keep the glucose sweets with me. They are fast acting and only cost about 80p 🙂
Ps - Im new to diabetes, only found out 4 weeks ago. Any advice welcome.
 
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Hi, I'm newly diagnosed too, and have noticed that since my levels have been coming down (recently started insulin) I've experienced nausea. Before insulin my levels had been as high as 33! Today was 9. I'm hoping my eyes settle down too.

Good luck
Ruby
 
Does it sound terrible to say how reassuring it is to know others have similar issues when nausea and eyes etc?! It’s just so good to know we aren’t alone eh. Thanks everyone for being so generous with support.
 
Glad to read this post. I have nausea and feel shaky too, 3 weeks since diagnosis. Hope things settled down for you all.
 
I'm over 4 months since T1 diagnosis now. One important thing I've learned so far is that not every feeling is linked to diabetes. It could be anything from a commom winter's cold, to an anxiety disorder.

For example, last October I went up to the hospital suspecting DKA again as I felt terrible in my chest like I did during diagnosis. Turns out it was a spontaneous collapsed lung! And a month after that, hospitalised again, turned out to be an infection unrelated to diabetes. Only link is that my ketones increased ever so slightly as a reaction to my temperature.

If you feel unwell for a long time, see a doctor. That's how we got diagnosed after all.

Now I know that when I'm feeling down, shaky, sweaty, or have difficulty breathing it is not always linked to my BG or ketones. But knowing that is not always enough. If you are still doing conventional finger pricks every time you want to see your BG then I cant recommend enough the Freestyle Libre. It'll tell you your BG, the trend (whether your increasing or decreasing, how quickly) and measures your BG continuously so long as you swipe at least once every 8 hours (you can set alarms). Once you've gathered enough data, it'll also show you your average glucose at different times of the day, daily patterns, time in target and low glucose events. The reader can store up to 90 days of this information, and it can all be transferred to your computer via USB.

I sound like a salesperson because this product genuinely changed my life – I could only last a month with those pesky finger pricks and now I go weeks at a time without pricking and my BG levels have improved a lot. Just be aware of the 10 minute lag time between your actual BG and the sensor's reading. This only gets annoying in cases of extreme hypos, for example, my sensor was telling me I was 4.6 mmol/L, felt much lower than that, pricked my finger and I was 1.4. More often than not it's just a minor test of patience.

I often find myself feeling low when I don't have the sensor on me, only to prick and realise I'm in the healthy 5's. For me it's the stress of having to draw blood from my fingers, and then not really know whether I was going up or down until I prick again. The Libre is much more practical in public as well.

Hope I helped in some way. A few months ago when I saw diabetes as the end of the road – no hope for a career in the military, no more sugar, no more eating out with friends – people always told me it'll simply become an everyday annoyance rather than the worst thing in the world. And that's exactly what it's become in just a few short months – just another annoying task in a day's work. There will be ups and downs but you'll be fine so long as you respond to them correctly.
 
Thank you so much for your input. The libre is something I eventually want to get, the cost is a bit of an issue at the moment. It's great to hear that things eventually become routine and part of your day.
 
That's understandable. The prices can be ridiculous depending where you buy, and it's not like it's a one time purchase. Certain places in the UK offer it on repeat prescription through NHS. Best of luck.
 
My DSN said my health board has been approved to use it and should hopefully qualify for one, hopefully within the next year. So that would be good. Gonna get one for holiday in the summer though.
 
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