Checkup time
Monday, March 8, 2010 at 2:06PM I’ll be going back to my doctor today to find out how well I am healing. Also, to find out if I will need another round of antibiotics or a different type of antibiotics. I am hoping this will be a fast, simple appointment. As much as I love my doctor to death, the past week has not been pleasant. I have never been so ready to get well in all my life. Diabetes wreaks enough havoc on my body on it’s own, and I do not like having to baby another illness too.
Last week, I went every day after the procedure except for the weekends. Erik took great care of me over the weekend. I was even able to go back to work this morning. So, I am hoping that he’ll give the thumbs up, send me home, and not want to see me back until the end of the week.
All the meanwhile, my glucose levels have been doing some weird things. They were staying really high before, but since being on the antibiotic and pain medications, I can’t keep them up. I expected the exact opposite, to be honest. I feel like I have gained 5 pounds just from eating to stay up. Then, when I do go up, it’s hard to get it back down…. and suddenly I hit rock bottom again for no reason. (No rage boluses or anything, treating with only half of my recommended correction bolus, etc) It had gotten so frequent that I could just about time how often I would have to eat to try to prevent the low. And, if I missed it, I would get very sleepy, nauseated (does anyone else get this symptom of a low?) and irritable, making me not want to eat even more so. I have finally decided to change my basal rates down again and see how it goes.
So far, I’m doing pretty good. Highest being 170-ish and lowest being 70 (according to the 3hr Dex line). Even lunch seemed not to be so bad. We’ll see. I may need more tweeking.
Sugabetic
Followup at the doctor's office went great. He said that everything is healing fine and that I won't have to come back until Thursday. YEY! Also, since it was healing as nicely as it was, I didn't need another round of antibiotics. Double YEY! :-)
Reader Comments (1)
All the D needs is a little something out of the ordinary to mess things up a bit! Whether it be an infection of some sort like you've been fighting or grief like I've been struggling with. It amazes me how things like that affect how the body uses insulin. But I'm glad you're seeing some kind of normalcy again & only hope that it continues down that route for you. And to answer your question, I've also had nausea as a symptom of lows ... not all the time but it has happened to me.