It is 4 am and I feel so sick! I had high bg all day pretty much, in the morning I may have miscalculated a bit and then I went low after dinner so I kinda freaked out and drank juice and then went high I suppose from that? Anyways, I have been diabetic for like 2 months now and my levels have been pretty good for the most part except today has just been very off…
I tested my bg and it was 105… but I woke up feeling nauseous, eyes BURNING, with that same thirst I had when I was dxd and had dka… I am freaking out, I know I had a bad day today but can one day cause this much damage? I am new to this so I feel like I dont know what to do and am so nervous right now…
any advice or experiences would be greatly appreciated!
I’m type 1 since 1967 and I will try to help you. First, stay relax and re-test your bg. Sometimes I have this feeling(nauseous)when I’m low. 105 is a good number. And do you call your doctor or a nurse? And I really think that one bad day can’t cause damage. I’m going to read your page.
I totally know how you feel when it comes to freaking out when you are low and then overcompensating. I have been Type 1 for about 4 years now and things like what is happening to you right now still happen. Sometimes after a day like yours your body is just having a rough time and the nausea is just part of that frustration. But just to make sure I would check your urine with some Ketosticks sticks to make sure you do not have dka. Everyday is a learning process, do not get discouraged.
oftentimes when you are sick your bs is high…
hope you are better this morning ((hug))
You know, it’s entirely possible to be feeling bad, freaked out, very off, and it has nothing at all to do with your bg or diabetes.
Some here tell you the gloom and doom stories about how a single high bg will cause a complication right away… but I can tell you (with 30 years of T1 under my belt) that the last thing you want to feel bad about, is a single high bg. Or a single low bg. You log it, correct it, and move on. Really, there’s nothing else you have to do. Feeling bad doesn’t help. And believe me, I’ve had plenty of high and low numbers over the past 30 years.
Now, there are some psychological aspects of being T1 that are actually made worse by going on the internet and reading that a single high number or low number is horrible. There’s lots of good stuff for you to read here and elsewhere, that will help convince you that you can lead a long happy life with T1. But going around and trying to meet everyone’s expectations of perfect control all the time, that really doesn’t work. If you could come away with my experience that overall good control is possible, and works out well for your health, you’ll do a lot better. Read some of the DCCT studies and results; don’t get too wrapped up in what the militant low-carbers or easy-to-control-T2’ers say.
Hey Robyn: I think the other members have pretty much summed it up: Don’t panic over this. There will be days like this, just hopefully as few as possible. I have been all over the map despite doing my best. Somehow I have no awful complications after 44 years. You are now part of a circle of friends here to love and support you through your journey. Regarding the high, here are some questions I need to ask you: Are you on a pump? If so, you may need to just change out your line and reservoir. Could you be sick? Have you started taking any medication that may be interferring with your insulin? Could your current bottle of insulin have gone bad? Could you have misjudged how much you ate before you went high? Have you been taught how to adjust your insulin depending on what you ate? For lows, I like glucose tablets better than using orange juice. I know what my response will be per tablet (yours might be different). I can usually expect to raise my bg about 20 points per tablet. That way I don’t overdo it. About feeling like you might be in dk, you should definitely test. If you are off there, are you eating an extremely low carb diet? If so, stop it. Not a good way to control diabetes. Best of luck and God bless, jan
I’ll echo what Tims says about the doom and gloom of highs and say that there’s plenty of doom and gloom about going low as well. In the short term, lows are certainly more dangerous than highs, but if you are concious, have checked your BG and found it to be low, there is no reason to panic, expecially if you are prepared to treat it. I tell you this, but sometimes I still feel the same way because paranoia is definitely something I feel when I am low,
You will get lows, just like you will get highs. The first low I ever got was sitting in my hospital room after my very first insulin injection. I ate my dinner, but 10 minutes later I started to have the strangest sensations I had ever felt. I was talking to my mother and stopped mid sentence because I couldn’t remember what my next word was supposed to be. Then came the sweating and shaking while my mother and everybody else in the room looked on horrified. On cue, the nurse calmly walked in the room with a glass of orange juice, did a quick finger stick, smiled, and said, “We have some adjustments to make.”
Hang in there! Learning how to manage diabetes is all about learning how your body reacts to a million different situations. The more testing you do and the more variables you can look at now while you are having all these different experiences, the easier and less stressful they will be later. It never gets easy, but it does get easier.
Robyn, rest easy. and congratulations on your levels being pretty good.
Don’t worry about a day of off numbers. Sit back, take some deep breaths, and chalk it up to LIFE, and move on.
Truly, I hope you’re not feeling nauseous any more. Let us know how you’re feeling.