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Posted 11/13/2007 11:31 PM (GMT 0)
Hi--

I don't feel good, really dizzy and head feels like bad fever but no fever.  My sugar was elevated for no reason.  I haven't eaten much, I figured it was low because of that.  I had a few bites of hot cereal sugar free this morning, couldn't eat much, then some chicken noodle soup for lunch at 1:30, had salad with greek dressing (vinaigrette type) at about 4:00, then I slowly felt like crap and at 6:00 my bf brought me my dinner of hamburger patty no bread or anything and a few sweet potato fries and I couldn't eat but two bites of the hamburger and two little fries, I felt so dizzy and bad.  I've had bottled water to drink all day and one glass of diet dr. pepper.   This is scary because it is like its not my food doing it.  And I haven't had any steroids.  I took my diabetes medicine today too.  This never happens.  Any suggestions?  I'm a little scared by this.  I just want to go to sleep.  Its not very high, but I am extremely sensitive to shifts in my sugar, esp. elevation due to my medical problems.  Above 120 and I feel like I'm going to pass out, like now.  Its 127 and I gotta lay down.  My head has been killing me all day and I think its been elevated all day, even before I ate anything at all. I wish I would have tested this morning before I ate.  Thanks for any help, similar experiences you might have.

Posted 11/14/2007 1:24 AM (GMT 0)
Hey Marji,

 

I don't have diabetes, I'm on the other end of the scale... Do you take insulin to manage your levels?  What meds do you take for your diabetes?  You went a long time between meals from your lunch at 1:30 to supper at 6:00.  Did you have a snack in between?  It could be that your levels got too low and then whammo your supper came and jolted your levels back up. Do you take your meds at each meal?  I'm just wondering if your insulin is out of whack because there was too much time between meals.  Or.. Did you take too much of your meds and cause a reaction?  Or not enough of your meds?  I'm trying to brainstorm here with ya. 

 

Maybe someone else with more experience with this can help. Otherwise, if it continues Marji, I'd go to ER.  Don't mess around with your blood sugars.  It can be really dangerous.

 

Keep us posted,

 

Ginny

Posted 11/14/2007 1:41 AM (GMT 0)
I just know from my nursing experience that with diabetes blood sugar tends to increase when you are sick.
Posted 11/14/2007 4:52 AM (GMT 0)
Thanks gloryroad and ginny. I don't know, maybe from my liver disease getting worse, that's why I have it in the first place. Maybe meds bothering me, I don't know. Maybe I am coming down with somehing. I did have a snack, but it was a salad with vinaigrette so it was kind of low carb, no carb thing so it wouldn't have helped me. I tested right after chewing my last bite at dinner so I wouldn't think it had time to shoot up. The only thing I can think of is that the small amount of pasta in the chicken noodle soup maybe did it, but that is ridiculous because the glucophage should have taken care of that and I eat soup all the time. I fell into a deep sleep for a while then awoke and feel better. weird. Almost like a seizure or something. My head feels really funny.
Posted 11/15/2007 1:54 AM (GMT 0)
Hi, Marji. I am really not much help with crazy blood sugar fluctuations. I have a hard time keeping my own behaving. I would just suggest that if this continues, you need to have it checked out. If you are coming down with something, maybe that could be uncovered and early treatment might help that as well. Take care and let us know what happens.
Posted 11/15/2007 3:19 AM (GMT 0)
Well, I'm feeling better today, though mornings still rough. It just seems like my diabetes like everything else is getting worse. I don't know why I'm going downhill so fast now this last year or so. Hopefully the steroids will put me right. It's been a long time coming.
Posted 11/15/2007 8:46 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Marji, Hey guess what I don't have diabetes! about time I could say at least I don't have somthing! Anyway I hope you are feeling better. I know you have been under an incredible amount of stress lately. Maybe you have been running on adrenalin since your son was gone and now that he came home your body just crashed? I don't know just throwing some stuff out there All I know for sure is that stress is not a good thing for even healthy people to have alot of. Let usknow how your doing with it.
hugs carol
Posted 11/15/2007 7:35 PM (GMT 0)
Great news, Carol! Diabetes is a real drag, you don't realize what crap your parents and grandparents put up with until you get it, then you have a whole new appreciation. Maybe stress, maybe from the hydrocodone I've been on, I don't know. Its so good to hear you are healthy there anyway. A pancreas is a horrible thing to lose! I'm about ready to give up my thyroid though, that definitely could be taken!
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