G,day People.
On New Year's Eve after a heavy night drinking I awoke to blurred vision. Something which I had for at least a month, even buying a new pair of glasses to boot, as the Optitician had said I have got slightly more short sighted. Did a eye test and it had shown no sign of diabetes, after I had asked him to check for it.
After awhile I started drinking really heavily, like 10 plus cans a day, or some whiskey or wine, until, I ended up going to toilet all the time, and losing a lot of weight in 3 days, after 1 to 2 weeks of doing that.
Goes to GP do a blood test, and get a phone call the next day stating something about diabetes. Saying that my 3 month level is quite high, it was either 6.9 or 12. The 12 might have been my urine sample, which had 1.7 ketones in it. She mention something about two different readings anyway. Based on my levels currently it was probably 6.9. Also I have a triat so it could all be nonsense anyway.
Now the Doctor in the hosiptal is like, yeah you're Type 1, mate. Because I'm slim and 40. Which is fair enough, but all of my family are Type 2, and had got it around the same age.
To cut a short story even shorter, I ended up in hospital for a day, and put on Insulin. Blurred vision cleared up in less than a whole day to boot. No longer have to wear glasses.
Now for the first week or two things were working out fine. 8 of the Levemir in the morning, and 6 at night. Blood sugar high as hell ranging from 13 to 27 at times. Even at night, and it always dropped to 10 in the morning regardless of how high it was.
Second week starts, and I add in the Nova Rapid to cover the carbs, getting my figures down to 8 and 9, and I'm think, that's not too shabby. Blood sugar rarely dropped more than 1 overnight then.
Now the third/forth week starts, and I decide to quit drinking. Suddenly after a spell of a week I'm dropping the NovaRapid, and the Levemir doses, unti I'm on 1 unit of Levemir in the morning and that's it. And now the Hypo's starts, now I'm basically using Carbs to fight off the Insulin. I do this for 3 days, and then just stop with the Insulin.
Now after 10 days or so I'm on no Insulin and literally every morning my blood sugar is 5.1 to 5.7, have my Branflakes and 3 to 4 hours later my blood sugar is back down to 5.8. Rarely if ever goes down to 4 I've noticed. Ketones range from 0.1 to 0.5, though mainly 0.1.
Now I've been told that I could be in Honeymoon period, which is understandable, but my levels seem to be consistent day and night. In fact I figure that there is some Insulin resistance more than anything, since after peanuts my blood sugar is at 10 or so after 3 hours, or after Chips and Pie it's a 10/11, but the 4th hours after eating it's always 6.1 or something in that range.
Now I've got 2 doctors who are both type 2 diabetics themselves saying I might be type 2, one being my GP, and one a Diabetic expert, who had said the ketones was down to alcohol, and not eating since I had lost my appetite. I asked him about the honeymoon period, and he was like, no, said something aboput that being down to people mainly changing their diets in the beginning, which I'm not buying personally. But he did seem to know his stuff.
And I've got 2 diabetic nurses, who if I had listened to, I'd probably be dead by now. Saying that it's probably the Honeymoon.
After 5/6 weeks I'm still waiting for my GAD and C-Peptite results to come back from Oxford.
Anyway this is all very strange, and I'm sort of in Limbo. I think I've certainly got diabetes, but which one, I'm learning towards type 2/Pre- diabetic, and maybe I made things worse by drinking heavily/not eating well and I was a bit floaty headed for awhile since my body had to get used to low blood sugars again, so I don't know.
But things seem pretty consisent with my current Insulin production, day by day, and I thought the Honeymoon was morelike fits and starts.
Just wondering if anyone has an idea as to what is going off?
Fighting off hypo's and then going on a roller-coaster of high and low blood sugar is one of the most mentally exhausting things I can imagine, well I no longer have to imagine. It was plain stressfull. I seriously want to avoid it. In short I'm just plain scared. I accepted the Type 1 treatment easily to begin with, wasn't feeling to bad, but when you're currenlt producing Insulin, it's really hard to manage. Like I said, I can't even take 1 unit of Levemir in the morning without serious problems.
Whoever said Peanuts are good for blood sugar needs to be looked at. No, my blood sugar was 10mmol from writing this after eating half a bag of dry roasted, probably an hour before that reading, and now it's 5.9mmol/L 2 hours later, and 1 hour ago, it was 8.5mmol/L.
On New Year's Eve after a heavy night drinking I awoke to blurred vision. Something which I had for at least a month, even buying a new pair of glasses to boot, as the Optitician had said I have got slightly more short sighted. Did a eye test and it had shown no sign of diabetes, after I had asked him to check for it.
After awhile I started drinking really heavily, like 10 plus cans a day, or some whiskey or wine, until, I ended up going to toilet all the time, and losing a lot of weight in 3 days, after 1 to 2 weeks of doing that.
Goes to GP do a blood test, and get a phone call the next day stating something about diabetes. Saying that my 3 month level is quite high, it was either 6.9 or 12. The 12 might have been my urine sample, which had 1.7 ketones in it. She mention something about two different readings anyway. Based on my levels currently it was probably 6.9. Also I have a triat so it could all be nonsense anyway.
Now the Doctor in the hosiptal is like, yeah you're Type 1, mate. Because I'm slim and 40. Which is fair enough, but all of my family are Type 2, and had got it around the same age.
To cut a short story even shorter, I ended up in hospital for a day, and put on Insulin. Blurred vision cleared up in less than a whole day to boot. No longer have to wear glasses.
Now for the first week or two things were working out fine. 8 of the Levemir in the morning, and 6 at night. Blood sugar high as hell ranging from 13 to 27 at times. Even at night, and it always dropped to 10 in the morning regardless of how high it was.
Second week starts, and I add in the Nova Rapid to cover the carbs, getting my figures down to 8 and 9, and I'm think, that's not too shabby. Blood sugar rarely dropped more than 1 overnight then.
Now the third/forth week starts, and I decide to quit drinking. Suddenly after a spell of a week I'm dropping the NovaRapid, and the Levemir doses, unti I'm on 1 unit of Levemir in the morning and that's it. And now the Hypo's starts, now I'm basically using Carbs to fight off the Insulin. I do this for 3 days, and then just stop with the Insulin.
Now after 10 days or so I'm on no Insulin and literally every morning my blood sugar is 5.1 to 5.7, have my Branflakes and 3 to 4 hours later my blood sugar is back down to 5.8. Rarely if ever goes down to 4 I've noticed. Ketones range from 0.1 to 0.5, though mainly 0.1.
Now I've been told that I could be in Honeymoon period, which is understandable, but my levels seem to be consistent day and night. In fact I figure that there is some Insulin resistance more than anything, since after peanuts my blood sugar is at 10 or so after 3 hours, or after Chips and Pie it's a 10/11, but the 4th hours after eating it's always 6.1 or something in that range.
Now I've got 2 doctors who are both type 2 diabetics themselves saying I might be type 2, one being my GP, and one a Diabetic expert, who had said the ketones was down to alcohol, and not eating since I had lost my appetite. I asked him about the honeymoon period, and he was like, no, said something aboput that being down to people mainly changing their diets in the beginning, which I'm not buying personally. But he did seem to know his stuff.
And I've got 2 diabetic nurses, who if I had listened to, I'd probably be dead by now. Saying that it's probably the Honeymoon.
After 5/6 weeks I'm still waiting for my GAD and C-Peptite results to come back from Oxford.
Anyway this is all very strange, and I'm sort of in Limbo. I think I've certainly got diabetes, but which one, I'm learning towards type 2/Pre- diabetic, and maybe I made things worse by drinking heavily/not eating well and I was a bit floaty headed for awhile since my body had to get used to low blood sugars again, so I don't know.
But things seem pretty consisent with my current Insulin production, day by day, and I thought the Honeymoon was morelike fits and starts.
Just wondering if anyone has an idea as to what is going off?
Fighting off hypo's and then going on a roller-coaster of high and low blood sugar is one of the most mentally exhausting things I can imagine, well I no longer have to imagine. It was plain stressfull. I seriously want to avoid it. In short I'm just plain scared. I accepted the Type 1 treatment easily to begin with, wasn't feeling to bad, but when you're currenlt producing Insulin, it's really hard to manage. Like I said, I can't even take 1 unit of Levemir in the morning without serious problems.
Whoever said Peanuts are good for blood sugar needs to be looked at. No, my blood sugar was 10mmol from writing this after eating half a bag of dry roasted, probably an hour before that reading, and now it's 5.9mmol/L 2 hours later, and 1 hour ago, it was 8.5mmol/L.
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