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- 4 months, 1 week ago
  
  Lawrence S. likes your comment at
  What are three foods that raise your blood glucose the most dramatically despite your best efforts to count the carbs, pre-bolus insulin, and manage the impact?
  Pizza Ice cream Pasta in any form
- 7 months ago
  
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  Have you ever accidentally given yourself an injection of rapid-acting insulin instead of a long-acting insulin (or vice versa)? Share in the comments how you handled this situation.
  I did this twice about 2002 to 2007. My program then was to inject Lantus once a day for 24 hour coverage and then fast acting insulin for each meal. On two different occasions a grabbed the bottle for the fast acting insulin and injected enough units to cover the next 24 hour period, about 20 units with no food. When my BG dropped quickly, I discovered the error I started drinking fruit juice and testing with my meter about every 20 minutes over the next 3 hours until it all leveled out.
- 7 months ago
  
  sweetcharlie likes your comment at
  Have you ever accidentally given yourself an injection of rapid-acting insulin instead of a long-acting insulin (or vice versa)? Share in the comments how you handled this situation.
  I did this twice about 2002 to 2007. My program then was to inject Lantus once a day for 24 hour coverage and then fast acting insulin for each meal. On two different occasions a grabbed the bottle for the fast acting insulin and injected enough units to cover the next 24 hour period, about 20 units with no food. When my BG dropped quickly, I discovered the error I started drinking fruit juice and testing with my meter about every 20 minutes over the next 3 hours until it all leveled out.
- 7 months, 4 weeks ago
  
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  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  Many times I have needed to adjust insulin intake amount in order to cope with illness, but only rarely needed outside help. In the early 1970’s I made some mistakes managing influenza. My BG went very high (no meter available for testing at home), and I ended up in the hospital then.
- 8 months ago
  
  AnitaS has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  When I had surgery last year and couldn't exercise for a few months, my time-in-range was very good. I was shocked but I shouldn't have been as exercise is one of the things that make my diabetes harder to keep under control. During recovery, I didn't have the ups-n-downs in blood sugar that I usually have when I exercise.
- 8 months ago
  
  Janis Senungetuk has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  Fortunately that hasn't been an issue for quite some time. If I need help beyond what I've learned from 67 years of previous experience, I'd contact my endo or CDE.
- 8 months ago
  
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  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  Many times I have needed to adjust insulin intake amount in order to cope with illness, but only rarely needed outside help. In the early 1970’s I made some mistakes managing influenza. My BG went very high (no meter available for testing at home), and I ended up in the hospital then.
- 8 months ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
- 8 months ago
  
  kim bullock has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  My experience having had diabetes for 29 years.
- 8 months ago
  
  Mick Martin has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  Ha ha! Sports medicine doctor. lol. I experienced a very similar situation when I had an ingrown tooth and my dentist refused to treat me because I was taking steroids ... NOT anything like prednisone, but a long-standing steroid, called Fludrocortisone, which stimulates the adrenal glands to push up my blood pressure, and also when I WAS taking prednisone and was admitted to hospital, and my doses were being titrated to a lower level, and some clown doctor requested the ward staff to increase my insulin doses. I tried to explain to the doctor that he'd got it wrong, and that because my prednisone was being titrated downwards I would require less insulin, NOT more. Of course, the clown wouldn't listen to me, stating that he was the one 'with the bit of paper', until a doctor had to be summoned from the Accident and Emergency department during the night as I was convulsing with a severely low blood glucose level.
- 8 months ago
  
  Bonnie Lundblom has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  Only "illness" that makes it really difficult to control my blood sugar is getting steroid injections into my cervical spine or fingers. I leave my basal rate on my pump at 250% and need much higher bolus doses and many "extra" doses if my blood sugar remains really high. I tell the MD's that it turns my insulin into tap water and try to avoid it, experience with having gotten these injections over the past few years has helped, but having blood sugars of 400-500 despite much higher basal and bolus dosing is so frustrating!
- 8 months ago
  
  Mick Martin likes your comment at
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  Many times I have needed to adjust insulin intake amount in order to cope with illness, but only rarely needed outside help. In the early 1970’s I made some mistakes managing influenza. My BG went very high (no meter available for testing at home), and I ended up in the hospital then.
- 8 months ago
  
  Mick Martin has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  I selected "My health care provider – calling, emailing, or going to their office to ask questions", but I also use my own knowledge, from what I've learned about diabetes over the last 40-odd years. ;-)
- 8 months ago
  
  cynthia jaworski has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  Except for those brand new at this, we all know the drill. We know that we need to be flexible, make adjustments, and pay attention.
- 8 months ago
  
  Bruce Schnitzler has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  A combination of DexCom G6 and an insulin pump provide adequate management.
- 8 months ago
  
  gary rind has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  only time that I have been sick was when I got COVID during Jan '22. my sugars were going crazy high and I couldn't understand why but when I tested positive for COVID, in retrospect it made sense.
- 8 months ago
  
  David & Kaleo of Team Nani has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  My illnesses are rarely bad enough to eliminate ALL movement, but missing workouts does impact my #'s. I try to walk more. I do know that antibiotics (Zpack comes to mind) shoots sugar up a ton. Anything like prednisone/other steroids do the same. What to do? Avoid any illness, seek Heath&Wellness coach who helps me stay committed and accountable for implementing my wellness vision and related behaviors. It works! My A1C has been below 6.2 for years.
- 8 months ago
  
  Samantha Hunter has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In your own words, how would you describe the feeling of a severe low?
  What's interesting is that I've begun taking Adderall for ADHD, and my doctor and I are still trying to find the right dosage. Lately I've found that 20mg XR is just too much for me, and describing how uncomfortable and out of it I felt, my ex-cocaine user boyfriend said that's exactly what coming down from speeding feels like. But what's interesting is that it also feels exactly like a low blood sugar. I kept checking my CGM but my blood sugars were all fine, but I still felt shaky and spacey. So apparently a low blood sugar has the same feeling as coming down off of speed/drugs.
- 8 months ago
  
  KMcKeon has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In your own words, how would you describe the feeling of a severe low?
  I've never had a very severe low -- only been T1D for 7 months. But if I am dropping very fast, I usually get this weird tunnel vision where I feel like everything is converging and I feel unsteady. Then the shaking, clammy feeling starts. Usually takes 25-30 mins to feel normal again, even when my blood sugar returns to normal.
- 8 months ago
  
  Eva has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In your own words, how would you describe the feeling of a severe low?
  I classify a severe low as one where I become completely stupid - it affects my cognition first and then my peripherals - like shaking, and fast heart beat etc...
- 8 months ago
  
  Sheri Marcus has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In your own words, how would you describe the feeling of a severe low?
  I start getting a bit dizzy, hot, shaky, confused and very hungry and thirsty.
- 8 months ago
  
  Eric Johnson has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In your own words, how would you describe the feeling of a severe low?
  I feel hollow and have not ability to concentrate
- 8 months ago
  
  Kelli Christiansen has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In your own words, how would you describe the feeling of a severe low?
  I get confused. My thoughts are racing. Making no sense. Unbalanced and uncontrollable movements. Sweaty and cold.
- 8 months ago
  
  Kelli Christiansen has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In your own words, how would you describe the feeling of a severe low?
  My thoughts are everywhere, non stopping, but making no sense. Confused. Unbalanced, if I try to walk. Cold and sweaty. Jerky movements and involuntary movements sometimes.
- 8 months ago
  
  Donna Condi has commented in the same post you commented in :
  In your own words, how would you describe the feeling of a severe low?
  Before Dexcom it was in the middle of the night and my husband woke me up because he said I felt very clammy to him. I was sweating profusely. I could barely think to get out the words to him to go get my bottle of juice from the fridge. I asked him to get my meter so I could check my bs. And it was no surprise that the number 21 came up.
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