Sugars after corona

[AnnieSA]

Hello
I had suspect Coronavirus around the 30th March and self isolated for two weeks. Am type one.

My bloods were really stable during that time.

Suddenly, they have gone wild and over last three days are rarely below 15mmol, often around 20mmol. That is really unusual for me.

I have thrown out my in use pens and started new from the fridge, twice, no difference.

I am on Fiasp and Tresiba.

Any possible ideas?
Thanks

 

[Inka]

Could it be a new illness or stress or lack of activity as you’re recuperating? How are you feeling in yourself?

Are you doing correction doses? Are they working? Have you tried a new box of insulin as well as a new cartridge? Just thinking out loud here.

 

[SB2015]

When I get ill and for a little while afterI find that I need to increase my insulin. Has anyone gone through Sick day rules with you? Do you know what your correction doses are? I find that I need to gradually increase my doses until I get my levels back down to target.

If you are at all unsure about how to adjust your levels contact your DSN for some help with this.

 

[Amity Island]

Hello
I had suspect Coronavirus around the 30th March and self isolated for two weeks. Am type one.

My bloods were really stable during that time.

Suddenly, they have gone wild and over last three days are rarely below 15mmol, often around 20mmol. That is really unusual for me.

I have thrown out my in use pens and started new from the fridge, twice, no difference.

I am on Fiasp and Tresiba.

Any possible ideas?
Thanks

Hi Annie,

I too had a similar experience with unusually high blood sugar levels at the beginning of the year and tried the same thing as you, binned my insulin and started a new set of vials, but it made no difference. Your unusually high levels may be a temporary change in mealtime insulin ratios.

Are your levels high only after you've eaten a meal? If so, I'd be looking at insulin to carb ratios again, for breakfast, lunchtime and evening meals. At least until things go back to more typical ratio.

My increased insulin:carb ratios are still up since January (up by 50%). Absolutely no explanation. No change in activity levels, no change in diet, timings, life style etc. I haven't had to increase my basal (tresiba). Everything running smooth levels wise since I re-worked my ratios.

 

[trophywench]

Bodies DO change, in lots of different ways through everybodies life, anyway. Difference is - we notice it more!

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Sorry to hear the diabetes fairy is up to her old tricks @AnnieSA

Hope you can find a new set of basal and mealtime doses plus correction factors that work for however long this strange period lasts.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

This downloadable flowchart of sick day rules might help in the meantime?

Sickday rules pdf

Sick day rules flowchart from Leicester diabetes centre. Particularly useful for people with Type 1 Diabetes during the Coronavirus outbreak.

www.t1resources.uk

 

[megga]

I suspected I have had the virus, same as you, my blood sugars were fine during it even though I felt quite Ill, and that's not the norm for me. After shaking it off, my blood sugars are all over the place, some days are fine, other days, no mater what I do, they just don't come down. Not sure about you, but for me since having it, my energy just goes, like when you exercise and "hit the wall" perhaps it could be that that causes it. Its been 3-4 weeks since I feel I recovered from it.