Woke up high

[Amberzak]

i don't know what happened, but I woke up this morning with a 17.4. Feel awful.

On my way to uni now, on the train. But I skipped breakfast. And now feeling so hungry. But won't eat until sugars have gone down (and probably won't get a chance to eat now until lunch because will be in class).

 

[Stitch147]

Hope your levels come down soon and you feel better. X

 

[trophywench]

Well you'll be needing to nip out of class fairly frequently to pee presumably so you might miss some of it anyway - might have been better to ring in sick. Presumably you corrected by pen at that level anyway - and changed absolutely everything before you left the house?

 

[Amberzak]

Well you'll be needing to nip out of class fairly frequently to pee presumably so you might miss some of it anyway - might have been better to ring in sick. Presumably you corrected by pen at that level anyway - and changed absolutely everything before you left the house?

Changed everything, yes. Sugars come back down now. I think the canula was the problem. Feeling better.

But wow, that was not good. I had ketones too.

Class is long, 10-7, and we go through so much, I can't easily skip class.

 

[Lucy Honeychurch]

I woke up high too, 15.4 and corrected immediately, it's probably due to the fact I've had a rough night with one of my children who is ill, so hardly any sleep.
I hope you will be OK for the rest of your mammoth lecture.

 

[Mariam Agha]

i don't know what happened, but I woke up this morning with a 17.4. Feel awful.

On my way to uni now, on the train. But I skipped breakfast. And now feeling so hungry. But won't eat until sugars have gone down (and probably won't get a chance to eat now until lunch because will be in class).

When I do get those high numbers! I correct them immediately. All you need to do is just take extra insulin.
In my personal experience, if I gets up with BG of 17.0, and because I am on 2/1 ratio in the morning, I would take 9 units of quick acting insulin Novorapid to bring the glucose level down to normal, plus additional units to cover whatever carbs consumed for the breakfast if it was necessary to eat. Otherwise I would just fast until the lunchtime.

 

[Amberzak]

I do correct immediately. Weirdly though for me, if my sugars are above 12, it seems to take forever for them to come back down.

 

[Kaylz]

I do correct immediately. Weirdly though for me, if my sugars are above 12, it seems to take forever for them to come back down.

Not just you hun, I've read a few people saying over 12 takes longer to get down x

 

[Rosiecarmel]

I do correct immediately. Weirdly though for me, if my sugars are above 12, it seems to take forever for them to come back down.

My DSN said the higher your sugars the more insulin resistant you become. I know once I'm above 12/13 I have to almost double my correction doses

 

[Mariam Agha]

My DSN said the higher your sugars the more insulin resistant you become. I know once I'm above 12/13 I have to almost double my correction doses

Especially in the morning we need more insulin. It is phenomenal, we can't help it!!

 

[Amberzak]

Okay, starting to thing there's a pattern going on. Second morning in a row I've woken up high. Not as high as yesterday but had a reading of 14.3. Mornings have usually been my best sugar readings.

 

[Mariam Agha]

Okay, starting to thing there's a pattern going on. Second morning in a row I've woken up high. Not as high as yesterday but had a reading of 14.3. Mornings have usually been my best sugar readings.

I think it is a pattern, You may need to increase your background insulin. But before, you need to check it with your specialist nurse.

 

[Amberzak]

I think it is a pattern, You may need to increase your background insulin. But before, you need to check it with your specialist nurse.

I pretty much spot the patterns and make the changes myself.

I'm going to do some night time tests. Last time I had this, what was actually happening was I was having hypos in the night and not waking up. I'm usually lower in this muggy heat, so the highs aren't making sense.

So it can be down to one of three things. Either I'm actually hypoing in the night and not waking up, causing my liver to dish out sugar so I wake up high, I'm going down with a bug, or the diabetes fairy just decided to visit me two nights in a row.

 

[trophywench]

Exactly, Amberzak, basal testing overnight has to be done, it's too dangerous to make assumptions.

And Mariam - if we checked with our DSN every time we needed to change a basal rate, they'd never have the time to see the people with appointments let alone visit the loo! Only when we've done things as properly as we know how and drawn a blank, do we contact them - once we know what to do, anyway.