Hi everyone. I have just joined but have already found alot of great information here. I am in the process of being evaluated, so I am still unclear about the diagnosis at this point. I am a 45 year old male. Here's a quick rundown or my past and recent issues:
About a year and a half ago I started having excessive sweating when with little or no activity. This was accompanied by extremely low energy. Unfortunately I also have chronic pain issues which have caused overlapping symptoms. Also, one of my pain management drugs (morphine) often causes this sweating issue but apparently does not impact blood sugars. anyways, I was referred to an endo who did some tests and determined that I had low testosterone. She put me on testosterone and I still take it. My dose is Delatestryl 100 mg/ml once a week by injection. This did seem to help. During the last 3 - 4 months I've had increasing symptoms such as night sweats and sudden daytime sweating with extreme shakiness, actually very textbook hypo symptoms. Since this has gotten quite worse over the last few weeks, I saw my family doctor again. She had me start blood monitoring and I have yesterday had a pile of tests, including OGTT, cortisol, C-peptide and a pile of others. Using my glucose meter, I have taken alot of readings. Here are some typical results:
I have had extreme swings of highs and lows. Often even though I've had a healthly meal, light exertion such as a short walk usually results in a low around 3.6. Maybe it would go lower, but at this point I am so shaky that I need to take glucose tablets. At the same time, under similar circumstances, My blood glucose has gone up to as much as 15.7. Once recently after eating my BG was still 11.6 2 hours after eating. Unfortunately this is not consistent. Sometimes it will also dive to hypo levels after a couple of hours.
In the last couple of weeks, my first thing in the morning numbers have crept up from the low 5's to 5.5 the last few days. This is making me very nervous now because after doing some research today, it turns out that testosterone therapy lowers BG. I was never told about this. So now I wonder if my levels would be even higher if not for the testosterone therapy.
I did have a random glucose done last fall and an A1C, but this was part of a checkup. I know that A1C is not recommended for diagnosis, but mine was 5.55. I was on testosterone at this time also. Random glucose was 5.5. I have also had slightly low pottasium and vitamin D. Other recent symptoms include sores on inner upper thighs and extreme muscle cramps in the same area, both during the day and night. Also, during one of my rough evenings, I passed out in my chair and when I came to, I felt rally buzzy and tingly and lips were tingly and my hands were numb for a good 10 minutes afterwards. Aside from this, for the last couple of weeks I have been urinating 10 - 14 times a day and drinking at least 10 8 oz glasses of water.
So all in all it's been a rough haul lately. Any comments or thoughts?
Thanks alot.
Don
About a year and a half ago I started having excessive sweating when with little or no activity. This was accompanied by extremely low energy. Unfortunately I also have chronic pain issues which have caused overlapping symptoms. Also, one of my pain management drugs (morphine) often causes this sweating issue but apparently does not impact blood sugars. anyways, I was referred to an endo who did some tests and determined that I had low testosterone. She put me on testosterone and I still take it. My dose is Delatestryl 100 mg/ml once a week by injection. This did seem to help. During the last 3 - 4 months I've had increasing symptoms such as night sweats and sudden daytime sweating with extreme shakiness, actually very textbook hypo symptoms. Since this has gotten quite worse over the last few weeks, I saw my family doctor again. She had me start blood monitoring and I have yesterday had a pile of tests, including OGTT, cortisol, C-peptide and a pile of others. Using my glucose meter, I have taken alot of readings. Here are some typical results:
I have had extreme swings of highs and lows. Often even though I've had a healthly meal, light exertion such as a short walk usually results in a low around 3.6. Maybe it would go lower, but at this point I am so shaky that I need to take glucose tablets. At the same time, under similar circumstances, My blood glucose has gone up to as much as 15.7. Once recently after eating my BG was still 11.6 2 hours after eating. Unfortunately this is not consistent. Sometimes it will also dive to hypo levels after a couple of hours.
In the last couple of weeks, my first thing in the morning numbers have crept up from the low 5's to 5.5 the last few days. This is making me very nervous now because after doing some research today, it turns out that testosterone therapy lowers BG. I was never told about this. So now I wonder if my levels would be even higher if not for the testosterone therapy.
I did have a random glucose done last fall and an A1C, but this was part of a checkup. I know that A1C is not recommended for diagnosis, but mine was 5.55. I was on testosterone at this time also. Random glucose was 5.5. I have also had slightly low pottasium and vitamin D. Other recent symptoms include sores on inner upper thighs and extreme muscle cramps in the same area, both during the day and night. Also, during one of my rough evenings, I passed out in my chair and when I came to, I felt rally buzzy and tingly and lips were tingly and my hands were numb for a good 10 minutes afterwards. Aside from this, for the last couple of weeks I have been urinating 10 - 14 times a day and drinking at least 10 8 oz glasses of water.
So all in all it's been a rough haul lately. Any comments or thoughts?
Thanks alot.
Don
I'm sorry that I was so short with you yesterday. I was tired and I couldn't comprehend your lengthy and detailed(which is interesting and Good)post. I don't blame you for feeling insane sometimes.
