Type 1 unusually high levels

[Gayle14m]

Hi. Everyone I've been diabetic from the age of 18.
I'm a early retired school teacher in my 50's , happily married.
At present my diabetes is running high for me ... before and after each meal. I carb count. There vary between 11-15 but the other problem I'm having is my eyes. They are blurred and get worst through the day, especially for reading or texting. I'm really concerned. I've recently had my hb1ac done 48. Just need help or advice.

 

[Kaylz]

Hi and welcome to the forum 🙂

Have you basal tested recently to see if that's needing adjusted? Checked your meal ratios to see if those need any adjustments made?

Are you feeling any more stressed than normal? Slightly under the weather at all?

Tried new insulin/s to see if the stuff you were using wasn't working as it should/may have become compramised?


Blurry eyes can happen with higher levels but if your worried then go get them checked out at the optician, unfortunately having had my first diabetes eye related issue less than a month after becoming Type 1 I cant stress enough how important I think a difference in eye sight should be checked asap
xx

 

[Flower]

Hello @Gayle14m and welcome 🙂

Could it be hormonal changes due to the menopause? It can mess levels around just like going through puberty, high, low, all points in between.

Have you had your eyes checked recently for the start of cataracts as mine developed in my early 50's after about 38 years of T1.

 

[MrDaibetes]

Welcome to the forum, have you tried basal testing and if so what was the outcome of that? If all is well with the basal, then your carb ratio is likely needed to be changed.

 

[Jon-Manchester]

Hi. Everyone I've been diabetic from the age of 18.
I'm a early retired school teacher in my 50's , happily married.
At present my diabetes is running high for me ... before and after each meal. I carb count. There vary between 11-15 but the other problem I'm having is my eyes. They are blurred and get worst through the day, especially for reading or texting. I'm really concerned. I've recently had my hb1ac done 48. Just need help or advice.

being relatively newly diagnosed, I have it very fresh in memory how blurry my sight got while I got down from 28 in BS to “normal “ levels.
i have heard and I have experienced it as well, that when the blood sugar goes up to the mid teens my sight goes blurry again, it all goes back to normal as soon as I bring my bs under control. Could that be what is happening here?

 

[Pumper_Sue]

Hi and welcome,
do you think you need to change your carb ratio?
If you are having problems with your eyes, your first port of call would be the optician. If you were high all the time then yes I could understand the blurred vision but not just when higher than normal after a meal and your A1c doesn't show you are high all the time.
Do you think you are less active now you have retired? If this is the case then look at checking your basal and see if you need any more background insulin.

 

[everydayupsanddowns]

Hello @Gayle14m

Interesting that your HbA1c does not seem to be reflecting these higher levels. How recently have you seen your BG in the 11s-15s? And am I right in thinking you said this was both before and after meals?

I used to find consistently high BGs would affect my vision after a couple of weeks (changes to the shape of the eye because of osmotic pressure I think?!)

Do you carb count? Rotate injection sites? Have you tried with a fresh pen/vial of insulin in case the one you are using has gone off a bit.

And yes, hormonal changes related to the (peri)menopause may also be involved?

Could well just be the darned Diabetes Fairy up to her annoying tricks again. Perhaps you just need to go for a bit of an ‘insulin reset’ starting with a basal test, and then resetting your ratios and correction factors to defaults for your TDD (using the 100/500/350 or other rules) and tweak from there?