I am 73 years old. I have been insulin dependent for about a year.
With no previous BS symptoms, I suddenly became diabetic after I received Predizone to offset the effects of a dye that was use to test for a blocked artery in my neck. After I had surgery to unblock the artery, my doctors admitted that Predizone will shut down the pancreas for a few weeks but refuse to believe the effect of Predizone on my pancreas would be permanent.
After attemps at using increasing doses of Metformen and Gluomide, (sp) my internist prescribed increasing doses of slow acting insulin.
When the slow acting insulin did not work, he prescribed 33 units of Humalog Mix 75/25 (75% slow acting and 25% fast acting) before breakfast and 34 units before dinner.
I test my BS before breakfast and dinner and 3 hours after breakfast and dinner on alternate days.
Sometimes, my BS reads normal for a few days and other days my BS number is high or low, even when I eat the same type of meals. The fluctuations can be as high as 320 and as low as 40 and on one or two occations it has gone even higher and lower. I drink orange juice to raise my BS and a small amount of dry, red wine to lower my BS when it goes high.
There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to how high or low the numbers go. I eat a meal one day with normal BS numbers and eat the same meal the next day with very high or low BS numbers.
I tract my BS numbers twice daily and average the numbers on a daily and monthly basis. The monthly averages don't seem all that bad but the short term fluctutions concern me.
To illustrate what happens.... If I have a morning number of 200 and an evening number of 50, the average is 125.. The 125 BS does not appear all that high but it does not address the much higher morning number.
My doctor does not seem all that concerned. He seems to ignore the fluctations and concentrates on the daily and monthly averages.
My A1c test was 7.3 on my last visit.
Are my concerns valid or am I worrying about nothing? Rae
With no previous BS symptoms, I suddenly became diabetic after I received Predizone to offset the effects of a dye that was use to test for a blocked artery in my neck. After I had surgery to unblock the artery, my doctors admitted that Predizone will shut down the pancreas for a few weeks but refuse to believe the effect of Predizone on my pancreas would be permanent.
After attemps at using increasing doses of Metformen and Gluomide, (sp) my internist prescribed increasing doses of slow acting insulin.
When the slow acting insulin did not work, he prescribed 33 units of Humalog Mix 75/25 (75% slow acting and 25% fast acting) before breakfast and 34 units before dinner.
I test my BS before breakfast and dinner and 3 hours after breakfast and dinner on alternate days.
Sometimes, my BS reads normal for a few days and other days my BS number is high or low, even when I eat the same type of meals. The fluctuations can be as high as 320 and as low as 40 and on one or two occations it has gone even higher and lower. I drink orange juice to raise my BS and a small amount of dry, red wine to lower my BS when it goes high.
There seems to be no rhyme nor reason to how high or low the numbers go. I eat a meal one day with normal BS numbers and eat the same meal the next day with very high or low BS numbers.
I tract my BS numbers twice daily and average the numbers on a daily and monthly basis. The monthly averages don't seem all that bad but the short term fluctutions concern me.
To illustrate what happens.... If I have a morning number of 200 and an evening number of 50, the average is 125.. The 125 BS does not appear all that high but it does not address the much higher morning number.
My doctor does not seem all that concerned. He seems to ignore the fluctations and concentrates on the daily and monthly averages.
My A1c test was 7.3 on my last visit.
Are my concerns valid or am I worrying about nothing? Rae
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