Gastroenteritis

[Scratch]

This is a fun one to deal with when you're a diabetic. Yuck.

It started late last night and in about 1.5 hours, I emptied all of my digestive tract from both ends. Managed to fall asleep. Blood sugar had climbed to 225 mg/dl by this morning. I haven't eaten any carbs all day and it's taken 16 units of extra Novolog to get my blood sugars down in the 120 to 160 mg/dL range.

I might be getting lucky a bit. I had some more stomach upset around 11 this morning, but only a little. I've been able to drink weak tea to get fluid back into me.

[princesslinda]

Hope you're feeling better soon! Those GI bugs can do a number on you. Fortunately, they tend to "run their course" soon.

[Jan B]

Good luck Scratch!!

I had that mess too almost a week ago. Started abruptly and very acutely at 2am (bg of 488). After a lot of severe vomiting (and the other), I couldn't even keep a drop of water down, and ended up getting to the ER for IV fluids.

Scratch -- do all you can to keep hydrated! And get to the hospital if you can't hold water.

[Scratch]

Yeah, it's amazing how quickly they can take you from feeling okay to feeling absolutely miserable. Definitely feels like I'm doing better since waking up this afternoon. The first couple times I got up in the morning, I would drink some tea and then want to fall right back asleep. Now I've been up for a bit and I don't feel the sleepiness coming on.

[adiantum]

Glad to hear you got some rest Scratch & I hope your over this really soon

[lorilei]

scratch...i have it too (and i had a smaller case a few weeks back)..not sure if it was the ribs i ate for dinner last night ...but now they may have to be placed on the offensive list for me (whenever i get sick, i can't seem to bring myself to eat the last normal food i had before getting sick)...we call this virus the "oops I cr#pped my pants virus." those of us in healthcare seem to get it quite a bit no matter how often we sanitize our hands etc...

[Scratch]

scratch...i have it too (and i had a smaller case a few weeks back)..not sure if it was the ribs i ate for dinner last night ...but now they may have to be placed on the offensive list for me (whenever i get sick, i can't seem to bring myself to eat the last normal food i had before getting sick)...we call this virus the "oops I cr#pped my pants virus." those of us in healthcare seem to get it quite a bit no matter how often we sanitize our hands etc...
Yeah, that's got to be a problem. The immunity that develops after having a variety of norovirus isn't long lasting and you're going to be coming into contact with people who have it.

I don't think I'm going to be having Italian sausage again any time soon either.

[Jan B]

I don't think I'm going to be having Italian sausage again any time soon either.

And I won't be having leftover roast either -- that was my last meal B4.
I heard Dr. Alvarez on TV say there is a terrible outbreak of this in the UK now. I would have never believed how sick this could make someone until I experienced it. Tea was my first hope, but nothing worked at all.

[davef]

Scratch,

You have my sympathy, it really is a horrible dose. Hopefully it will run it's course quickly. Do try get fluids into yourself, perhaps in a drink to replace Eletrolytes.

[Scratch]

Scratch,

You have my sympathy, it really is a horrible dose. Hopefully it will run it's course quickly. Do try get fluids into yourself, perhaps in a drink to replace Eletrolytes.
I've heard there's been a bad outbreak of norovirus over on the British Isles.

Everything's coming back to normal for me. I was able to eat some soup last night for dinner and all the tea I drank in the afternoon and evening helped to rehydrate me.

I took 33 units of Novolog yesterday. I usually inject 1 unit of Novolog to cover 10g of carbs or drop my blood sugar about 35 mg/dL. The only carbs I had yesterday were about 25g with dinner. I managed to average about 150 mg/dL on my 8 blood sugar checks yesterday and I'm pretty happy on that. Blood sugars ran high but not dangerously high and I had margin to avoid the fear of trying to treat hypos with a stomach that wasn't trustworthy.

I'm still having to inject some extra Novolog right now to stay level, but less than yesterday so far.

[kgm0612]

Hope you're feeling better Scratch!

I thought I had a case of food poisoning Saturday night until my daughter came down with the same thing on Sunday. My blood sugars started off low and then climbed to the 200's.

Karen

[Neuromancer]

Try having diabetes and Crohn's Disease at the same time (that's like chronic never-ending gastroenteritis), like me...:(