Illness and resistance

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Ffi010 DAFNE Graduate
King's College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
8 posts

Hi,
I have been ill for a few days now with tonsilitus and flu like symptoms.
I knew that I was ill as soon as my bg's would not come down below 12! So I began on the sick day rules and increased my QA by 10 and then 20% of TDD and they still havent reduced bellow 11.

Even though I am now on antibiotics and feeling better, my bg's are still high (over 13) and I have done an experiment where my BG was 19, I ingected 5QA and ate nothing. After 4 hours I had only come down to 16.6

I think that my body is resisting, but how long should this last as I am getting more and more concerned.

THank you

Garry DAFNE Graduate
North Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust
328 posts

Don't worry.
Just follow the rules and things will come back to normal as soon as your infection fades.
Only tricky bit of course is getting it right when on the return to normal insulin uptake when your resistance reduces.
Regards Garry