I know high blood sugars are dangerous, that's why I'm not happy with how mine have been turning out, that's why I'm worried. I know it is the "standard answer" but that's the exact problem. I've...
Another headache... hands a little shakey... ate 45 carbs around 5 hours ago and I'm at 84... can't got to bed like this, have to eat... hoping a banana and a salad will make my system happy for the...
By what I've heard under 140 is what should be aimed for 1 hour after a meal, and 120 two hours after. I just went to the nutritionist today and she was saying after 1 hour it should be below 180!...
Found this while digging around =D “This gives us new insights into what is happening in the pathology of type 1 diabetes. The immune cells we identified send signals which appear to protect and...
I haven't taken any insulin since... I believe thursday I know that levels above 140 aren't good, so I'm thinking about modifying my diet so I get the same amount of carbs in the day, but don't have...
Been measuring after eating a 6 inch sub from subway because it seems to have given me a headache... at least I think it was the cause... they say it has 45 carbs... one hour after I was at 180, two...
Looking up a few things I stumbled on some research that Joslin performed last year, thought you guys would be interested. Make sure to watch what happens when you eat fats, maybe someone can do a...
Measured myself at 99, Ate some chicken and took amoxicillin 875MG. 45 minutes later I'm at 59! Be careful when on this kinda stuff....
I had a little incident today, ate breakfast, an hour later I"m at 226, half an hour later 260. Looked at my meds and started searching online for answers... got a lot of diabetics asking about it to...
Woke up with an 87 and sweet smelling urine. Finished off two boxes of cereal cause they didn't have too much in them. I ate probably around 60 carbs as I'm supposed to (or less actually), measured...
OMG... um... I kinda went overboard with the carbs for dinner... I had anywhere from 70-90... a kiwi (10), glass of milk (10), biscut(30), and a bunch of sweet baby rays barbeque sauce (30-40)......
Yeah :) I kinda burned out my financial aid... i think I have one year left that I could use and I need two and a little more. but I"m going to talk with the disabilities department and see what they...
Still off the insulin, ate about 50 carbs for lunch and felt light headed so I took a nap. Woke up and realized I was about to be late for a doctors appointment D= So I started walking, got picked up...
87 mg/dl blood sugar, 10 mg predisone, 60 carbs for breakfast (10 in milk, 20 multigrain cherrios, 30 banana) Four hours later 115 blood sugar. My brother and I have odd eating habits. we generally...
last night I remember measuring myself twice and my meter reading 160 then 190... decided to just go to bed. An hour later I realized I forgot to take my meds, got up and took them with a glass of...
Yeah, I'm probably going to try to give my pancreas a break for like a week and not worry too much about measuring. Maybe just when something feels off. I'll just go back to the way I was eating...
Tomorrow is my last day, 10 mg. Idk why but there is no taper to 5mg....
Ate about 30g of carbs half an hour ago, checked my blood glucose, 130 mg/dl. my blood glucose when I checked was exactly 130 mg/dl. No lantus was taken today, 10mg of prednisone was taken today....
took a nap, urine smells sweet again, blood sugar 135, took two units of regular to help my system out a little. I'm guessing now that the prednisone is "low" but still there it kept my insulin...
8pm ate 45 carbs 9pm 30 carbs 11:30 45ish carbs expecting low blood sugar while I sleep Morning Urine smells sweet, vision not insanely blury Blood sugar: 80 mg/dl eating around 75 carbs, taking the...
Making a new post SO HAPPY. The hospital set my scale to 131-150 mg/dl as a start for my regular insulin injection 4 hours after eating and half an hour before my next meal. I noticed my diet was off...
Just realized I was supposed to eat 15 more carbs for all the meals I had today... ohh well, will have to do that tomorrow... sugar levels looking good today last night had 30 carbs, morning sugar...
My brother and I have hypoglycemia through my mother, I've had a few events, not many. With me what happens is I'll have a bunch of sugar and then BAM, an hour later I'm sweating, cold, and shaking,...
YES, stress increases blood sugar. What's going on is you start to stress out and your adrenal glands, little guys on your kidneys, release cortisol, a hormone. Cortisol is a natural glucocorticoid,...
That's probably what's going on then. My body was running high for quite a while when i was on 30mg of prednisone. Urine still doing good! Meds taken today: 10 units lantis 0 units regular carbs for...
My mind is going a bit insane trying to figure out what's going on... one of the guys I play games with is a diabetic and he was saying it could be ketones in my blood... Thinking about it after a...
I can't see much today, my urine smelled of fruit and was cloudy and my sugar level is 94... this text is just black blur... Called the ER to see if it's any concern, they didn't seem worried 10 mg...
I'm feeling much better... went on a internet depression scavenger hunt and I stumbled across two articles. One talked about the pancreas and it's insulin production, and then remembered that one of...
My father won't be much help... he's a schitzo... believes in demons and that everything will get better cause "god says so"... How many carbs should I take per meal? I mean... if I take none then...
started doing a little bit more reading online... the fact that I didn't have any ketones (that I know of) and that I remember the doctor saying I had "very mild pancretitis" at the ER is making me...
I'm 24 and live in Michigan. I didn't work while I was in college cause I wanted to be able to focus on my studies, but I had a hard time... doctors say my thyroid should have made it so I didn't...
I literally just ate some cereal and what not... I don't have a job to get good food or anything, I just have some support from my dad and the people I live with for food. And with the symptoms of...
an hour after my morning measurement I had some white chocolate coffee with no fat milk in it at a cafe... idk how many carbs, probably anywhere from 30 to 45... so "breakfast" had... idk 80 to 100...
I tried to get some information from the hospital that prescribed the prednisone in the first place... I didn't get to talk to a doctor, so I"m still walking in the dark... they said they will "try...
Another experiment... Stayed up to make sure I could call the doc to schedule my follow-up from the ER visit that the hospital told me to make... basically got a no from the doctor (no room till...
Had a kiwi and chicken for dinner, about 30 carbsish. Four hours later I'm at 97 mg/dl....
I have one more day of 15mg, three days of 10mg, then I am off. I am not sure why they didn't give me three days of 5mg, but I will be talking to a large hospital here in michigan about it to...
Update Related meds in the morning: 15mg prednisone 10 "units" Lantus 0 "units" regular insulin Morning blood sugar level: 103 mg/dl Morning carbs ingested estimation: 1-2g from 3 egg whites and 2...
Meal update Estimated carbs from lunch: 30 g from 1 large peeled cucumber, 1 large tomato and 16g from yogurt (3 slices of deli ham with estimated 0ish carbs) Expected blood sugar level based on...
Giving an update to help people see what can happen with prednisone like steroids. So... I"m trying to track my carbs and sugar levels... now tracking how much insulin I inject pre meal... today was...
I'm going through something very similar. I was prescribed prednisone in the attempt to help reduce inflammation in the bile ducts in my liver. My sugar levels probably spiked immediately, but I...
I added a "estimated carbs" section to my spreadsheet... At night, i guess you would call this my fasting period, my blood sugar drops like a rock unless I go a little insane and eat 50+ grams of...
In advance I do apologize, I"m very afraid of this being a permanent/month+ thing and am so stressed out. I know nobody here is a doctor or anything, but I won't see a doc for probably about a week...