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May 20, 2011
WullieIrvine
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Topic: Questions for HCPs / Penicillin It is entirely possible your antibiotics are lowering your blood glucose levels. I've recently had intravenous Vancomycin and it actually raised my blood glucose levels. Needless to say the sudden unexpected drop I got when I got home and it was out of my system has totally thrown me for a day but hey we live and learn Wullie (RNA) |
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May 20, 2011
novorapidboi26
1,816 posts
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Topic: Questions for HCPs / Penicillin I would say its perfectly possible your antibiotics are having an effect on you..............Some people find there BGs go up with illness and infection, some go down.............so it could be a result of the infection or a combination of the infection, its battle to get rid and also the antibiotic assistance you have been given........ Hopefully it will be a very short term effect, but best to be extra vigilant with your recording and testing..........
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May 20, 2011
Aneirin
15 posts
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Topic: Questions for HCPs / Penicillin Was going fine before, in the 5-8 range up until lunch time yesterday when I started taking it. Same ratios, same meals, butI had a hypo after lunch, treated it, hypo before dinner, treated it, hypo before going to bed, treated it, and a hypo after breakfast today.I have been treatign normally (2 fast acting, maybe some additonal CP's if meal is a while away) but I am not going above 6. (ratios are 1.5 to 1 for breakfast, 1 to 1 for lunch, and 2/3 to 1 for dinner. A weird one, but it's the only ratio that works for dinner) |
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May 20, 2011
Aneirin
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Topic: Questions for HCPs / Penicillin hello. Recently got an infection and need to take peniccilin for a month, and I seem to be getting lower, and am having a lot more hypos.Does penicillin affect blood glucose? And how? And how to adjust? (the penniccilin is flucloxacillin) |
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May 20, 2011
JayBee
582 posts
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Topic: Questions for HCPs / Information on menstrual cycle
Thanks! Still not quite eating properly (more than nothing!) and tired, but besides that, I'm fine and dandy!
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May 20, 2011
AK
16 posts
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Hope you're feeling better now! |
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May 19, 2011
JayBee
582 posts
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Topic: Questions for HCPs / Information on menstrual cycle I will be looking into the coil soon then! You sound like you've found it an absolute delight (well, despite the cons of course)! ^_^
On the note of "do we think it's time to raise the BI" question - after all that, I was very very ill on tuesday! Needed to go into hospital for assistance with dehydration prevention and everything! ^___^;; That explained the highs though during the days before considering once I started to stabilise on wednesday, I started to hypo in the morning! ^_^; I've reverted back to the 7 MORN and 14 EVE for now... I'm glad I took that incorrect dose of 16 EVE and 10 MORN though, saved me from raising ketones and the like I think! So at the moment it's been 7 MORN and 14 EVE with a change from all 1:1 ratios to 1:1.5 for breakfast and eve meal.... non-stop! Will it change now my pill taking has stopped? I shall continue my tracking! BTW - best not to measure your temperature from your armpit I've learnt from this experience... it's always lower so when I was ill, I couldn't even tell I was over 37C, let alone what I really was for my TOTM! Also - if you're on a combined pill like me, one of my DAFNE nurse team let me know that I do not ovulate - the pill is designed to prevent it from happening so this may explain some of my body's behaviour? I mean, I feel a bit doubtful that my body temp will rise now knowing this... I will have a think (bit messed up at the moment thanks to the bug). With this, if I find that my body is being consistent so far despite TOTM.... perhaps it is a suggestion that we just still haven't found the right clues to our insulin doses really? I mean, since starting this, I was of the same frame of mind (that my body needed more insulin), but after the BI changes and the ratio changes that I've not got plans on changing back, does suggest a lack of shift during the TOTM... but I will keep tracking myself to be sure. Whatever way we look at it, until we're sure of our doses, we can never be sure what's going on. There's so many factors that can affect it that you can't always pick up on... take for example, me checking my BGs after my evening meal insulin had finished - if I had not started doing that, after so many annoying inconsistent morning BGs, I would've never picked up to change my evening meal ratio - instead I would've been changing my over night BI still! Whatever our problems, keep up the great work all... we can all get there! |
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May 19, 2011
AK
16 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus
Yep... The workload 
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May 19, 2011
ClaireH
14 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus
Thing is I have done DAFNE and established 10 lantus was too high on a night and I walways hypo'd. SO we dropped to 6 and I've steadily built back up to 8 or 9. 8 gives me morning highs and 9 gives me a 1am hypo .... I am a tad demoralised 
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May 19, 2011
novorapidboi26
1,816 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus
Everyone may feel different, but you would get used to the pump being there, and injections would be a thing of the past, no need to dial up, pull the cap off etc ,you just push a button and hey presto..............you can also get Bluetooth handsets that can tell the pump to deliver wirelessly, in case it was in an awkward position and you were eating out........... A just a case of weighing out the benefits to the hassle.......and workload.......... |
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May 19, 2011
AK
16 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus My local Trust is expert on them and they asked whether I wanted one. For the general control aspect, I was tempted but for lifestyle generally I want to forget about injections from time to time, which would be difficult with a pump attached to you. |
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May 19, 2011
novorapidboi26
1,816 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus
No problem.......... Are you thinking of getting/asking for one......? Is there a specific issue to be dealt with or is it general control....? |
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May 19, 2011
AK
16 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus Thanks for your pump info, Novorapidboi. |
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May 19, 2011
novorapidboi26
1,816 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus
Definitely sound like the Dawn Phenomenon, just after 3 am you body clock knows you will be getting up in a few hours so starts to release a cocktail of hormones, one of which is from the alpha cells of the pancreas, Glucagon, this increases resistance and also carry's a message to the liver that instructs it to release glucose from its stores in preparation for increased energy requirements when starting the day.......... Correcting at this time is fine, but having QA insulin on board may make the interpretation of your results harder to follow.........just keep increasing your evening Lantus dose, the only downside is Lantus dose changes take a few days to get going, so effectively, 3 days to get going, 3 days to confirm the doses effect, so time consuming....... As far as the correction goes, at higher levels you may experience higher resistance to insulin, so 1 unit may not drop your blood sugar by 2.5mmol/l, this may be the contributing to your even higher result when you wake as the correction has not been sufficient together with the effects of the Dawn Phenomenon....... |
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May 18, 2011
saxman
28 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus
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May 18, 2011
ClaireH
14 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus HIIm new here lol I have been put on a split dose of lantus now and am still have a nightmare getting the doses right Im having high in morning with normal BGs at 3am and if my 3 am test is high i correct then too and yet im still high!! Most frustrating to say the least Anyone else on split lantus? Claire x |
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May 18, 2011
saxman
28 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus Thanks for the advise I will let you know how im getting on |
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May 18, 2011
MelissaF
56 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus Ah well then it's early days and I think that you need to expect a fair amount of disruption when you change insulins.Definitely try the 3am tests first. It's a pain in the a*se but it will give you a much better idea of why this is happening and then help you to track results when you start to correct. At least with the Levemir you should see an effect from dosage adjustments more quickly than you would have done on the Lantus (if that's what you were on before?) |
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May 18, 2011
saxman
28 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus Hi melissaf, I have only been on it since friday and i have posted my bg diary to see if anyone can see a pattern I will try a few 3am tests to see when my bg starts to rise first 
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May 18, 2011
novorapidboi26
1,816 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus
3am testing is the first thing to do........if your sugars are rising overnight gradually, up your evening BI dose, and then 3am test for a few days, continue till you hold steady from evening test till 3am test......... If its rises from 3 am onwards it most likely dawn phenomenon and then moving the dose till later on at night may be an option... |
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May 18, 2011
MelissaF
56 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus I guess, following DAFNE principles you should test at 3am for a few days to see what's happening. If you think that the high morning BG readings are due to your sugars rising overnight rather than as a reaction to overnight hypos then you should increase your eve BI dose?I had issues with very high morning readings on Levemir too. Interesting. How long have you been on it? Melissa xx |
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May 18, 2011
saxman
28 posts
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Topic: General Discussion / Levemir versus Lantus Hi all, I have started having problems with high readings in the mornings,I am wondering should I try moving levamir bedtime dose or trying 3am test because my evening bg are normal but am are high,comments please |
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May 18, 2011
novorapidboi26
1,816 posts
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Carbohydrate Counter Thanks for that...........
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May 18, 2011
Redstellaartois
3 posts
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Topic: Carbohydrate Counting / Carbohydrate Counter Found this online counter, has lots of foods in a searchable database.http://www.aminoz.com.au/food_nutritional_information.php |