About dehydration.
Insulin absorbtion is affected by the amount of water in your body. If you get dehydrated because of an illness or blood glucose that stays high for a long time, the insulin you inject under your skin will be poorly absorbed. When you get rehydrated, the insulin starts to be absorbed. Your blood glucose may come down rapidly even though you haven’t taken extra insulin. Therefore, poor diabetes control which leads to cycles of dehydration and rehydration can cause large variations of insulin absorbtion and "brittle diabetes."
I found this interesting, hope you do also.
I DO find this interesting!!! I read basically the same thing in one of my diabetes magazins. I tried it and, I HAVE noticed that when I am high, if I drink a bottle of water, my blood sugar will go to normal. AMAZING!!!</</span>em>
Thanks for the information! I had not heard this before. It’s good to know as I’m getting sick and having terrible numbers. I’ll make sure to drink lots of water
thanks for that I get colds and flu hayfever and lots of thing although im only on small dose of insulin thats a good read to know as i don’t drink much water and if you add cordial dose that sends a change in my levels, ill keep that information as i told to only lower my dose if i know that my days going to be busy.( i never know that unless i figure when it’s too late and my bloods higher.
There are two things to remember about water. Water is required for glucose to be bound into glycogen in your muscles. Not enough water, then insulin’s action is impaired. It is suggested that each gram of glycogen needs to be bound to 2.7 g of water. That is a fair amount of water. The second thing is that when your blood sugar goes high, your body naturally seeks to dump excess glucose in your urine. This action is part of the deadly DKA spiral where you excrete water from your body in a desparate attempt to remove blood sugar, thereby causing your insulin to be less effective, further raising your blood sugar. This is why you are advised to drink lots of fluids if your blood sugar is high and you suspect DKA is setting in.
Thanks for more information about the water and possible DKA in my mody function I will look into that more and later see my GP if I may need more blood tests I think i going through many changes as in country town we live on certanin side of the mountain and the house doesnt get worm til arfternoon then we gert alot alot of cool breeze I guess it coiunts to check myblood count more frequently and eat healthy inbetween all my insulin doses.
I know this is an old thread but want to ask others opinions.
My daughter is 16 and been diagnosed type 1 for 7.5 years. For the last 5 years she has been incredibly insulin resistant. They thought it was a resistance to a specific insulin and changed her to every rapid acting insulin they make with no change. We are currently using Humilin R U500 which is the concentrated. She started out on low doses and it seemed to work and is already up to 50-80 units a day plus using U100 for any carbs and additional corrections. Before we switched to the U500 she was taking 400-600 units of insulin and would still not register on the meter.
We struggle to keep her out of DKA regularly. When it gets bad her body rejects her insulin pump and her CGM. They both fail within hours of starting them even when she is in an acceptable range for over 24 hours. She could and often does, when fighting ketones, drink 1-2 gallons of water easily but still shows incredibly dehydrated on her blood work.
So with each hospitalization I try to analyze and troubleshoot. She immediately comes down with IV fluids and is responsive to insulin for anywhere from 4-7 days like before she became resistant. So I have been pushing her endos at Stanford to check her hydration levels and to try doing fluids at home on IV weekly or every 2 weeks as determined by her blood levels is needed.
So now for the question Does anyone have any experience with anything similar? Seen any research on anything like this? I know she can’t be the only one fighting this battle. We are willing to listen to ideas, we’ve tried probably most accept more invasive like regular IV therapy. Even entertained IVIG antibody treatments. We are desperate as we are well educated on the adverse effects that these highs have on her long term and the challenging immediate problems. We have seen atleast 6 specialists and talked to many more that are baffled and are willing to go and do whatever it takes to get our girl healthy.
Thanks in advance from very desperate parents.
Thank you for your time and recommendations. We’ve tried metformin and 2 other pills as well as 2 injectable sensitizers.
I have that book and actually was part of my initial training. I also like sugar surfer. Unfortunately hers is so out of the norm most things just haven’t worked anymore. She has tried eating a set carb diet to no carbs with no change on the blood sugars. It was thought she needed carbs for a while but no luck.
It’s something to do with an overactive immune system or dehydration it’s just both are complex and how to get deeper answers. Atleast that’s what my mom intuition keeps telling me
If her BG is high, she could dehydrate, as the kidneys try to shed the BG.
Metformin and LCHF/ketogenic is going to take a few months to see the effect on IR, it isn’t something that’s done for a week.
It’s pretty hard having uncontrolled BG on low carb high fat/ketogenic, 20-30g carb a day and part bolus for the protein. I haven’t seen anybody on the forums where the BG doesn’t settle. Also, I would guess she is stacking the weight on, the LCHF way of eating will help there too
all you can do is point her to the forums/facebook, at 16, they get very independant and manage their own diets
If you drink excessive water you will leach electrolytes. If your blood sugar is high you will dump glucose in your urine and leach electrolytes. In fact the drop in electrolytes is one of the complicating factors in DKA and that is why you are put on an IV even though you may be drinking lots of water.
And the real concerns is that it is well known that low sodium levels in fact make you insulin resistant. Sodium turns out to have a significant role in glucose uptake. So going low on sodium could at least partly explain the insulin resistance.
So my suggestions is to not drink just water but instead focus on getting re-hydrated through drinking electrolytes drinks such as PowerAde Zero which contains Sodium, Potassium, Calcium and Magnesium. You can also take supplements. I take in extra salt in my diet as well as taking Potassium and Magnesium supplements.
Does anyone have any experience with anything similar? Seen any research on anything like this? I know she can’t be the only one fighting this battle. We are willing to listen to ideas, we’ve tried probably most accept more invasive like regular IV therapy. Even entertained IVIG antibody treatments. We are desperate as we are well educated on the adverse effects that these highs have on her long term and the challenging immediate problems. We have seen atleast 6 specialists and talked to many more that are baffled and are willing to go and do whatever it takes to get our girl healthy.