Glucose level

[hyphenate]

this morning was 580!! :wow:

I took some insulin to knock it down, but I've never seen it that high before. And I hadn't eaten since last night, about midnight.

Even when I take the regular insulin, the numbers are often high in the morning, which confuses me to no end. :shrug:

[Warpy]

1. 580's getting up there

and you need to call your endocrinologist about anything over 400.

In the meantime, are you fighting any sort of injury or infection? Is there any special stress going on in your life? Could you have forgotten to take your antidiabetic drugs the previous day?

That high a blood sugar is a clue that something's going on.

[Ms. Toad]

2. Here's some info about high morning glucose

http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dawn-effect/AN01213

[LynzM]

3. Hyphenate, get thee to a doctor, and soon, please?

580 is way, way too high, though I'm sure you know that. Regular insulin only lasts in your body for 4-6 hours, and won't do anything to keep your morning sugars down. You should be on Lantus daily or NPH twice daily if you're having chronically high sugars. Thus ends the extent of info I'm willing to give without risking locking your thread. Please, talk to your endo, if you have one. :hug:

[hyphenate]

4. Thank you for your concern

I am actually taking Lantus and also Humalog for meal spikes. The night before, I had eaten some toast about 2 in the morning and had not taken my Lantus, which is where, undoubtedly the high reading came from.

I am a Type II, and I know that Type II is rather unlikely to cause Ketoacidosis. And it's really not been that high for some time now. My level fluctuates in the high 100s to the 300s on a daily basis, but as I said, it has rarely been that high.

Sometimes I miss a dose. Like a couple of nights ago, for when I fell asleep while reading.

Plus, I started on thyroid medicine about 3 weeks ago, and it is said to impact my glucose levels, so the increase could very well been affected by that.

My doctor and I are working on getting the thyroid medicine adjusted properly, and I will be to see her on the 2nd. I also have an appointment with a new endocrinologist early July, so I'm set.

I brought the level down quite considerably after I posted here. I was just a bit surprised at how high it was.

[LynzM]

5. I'm very glad to hear all of that

Sorry, I didn't mean to get preachy on you :( Being diabetic myself, and having seen too many people not even know what they should be doing... well, it sounds like you know the drill.

Good luck getting everything sorted out with the thyroid meds and what it's doing to your numbers... :hug:

[hyphenate]

6. Oh, no problems!

I used to have to contend with a resident I've ranted about before, who had blamed everything on the diabetes. Like if I stubbed my toe, it was because of the diabetes, or if I had a compulsion to kill him, it was because of the diabetes. I tried to wise him up and tell him that not everything had to do with the diabetes--like wanting to kill him was more because he was a dick and not because I was diabetic!

It's been since then that the hypothyroidism has cropped up, and that was after complaining for the past three years about how tired and drained I've been. It gives me greater reason to dismiss doctors who aren't prepared to assess me without telling me how overweight I am. (I'm about 40 lbs. overweight--I've lost about 50 lbs. from the highest I've ever been)

Strangely enough, there is an episode of the TV series, House, where this one very, very obese man is adamant that he doesn't have diabetes, and he is right, though there is hardly anyone willing to take him at his word. But I digress....

I finally realized a couple of months ago that I'm in charge of whether I "live or die" and that having a blood test isn't like a regular test, but a means of looking at progression. I was always fairly competitive in school, and I think that behavior crept into my health problems. Doctors aren't always the "enemy" but advisors and guides. You get some bad ones along the way, but it's only personality conflicts ultimately.