Sunday, March 20, 2011

Globe says it's okay to tell people in general terms. So, a month ago, he started having weird behaviors and physical symptoms, it got worse, we tested him for a bunch of things neurological and physical that came back normal or close to normal (except for blood pressure- high (like 140/90), pulse- high (mostly over a hundred), and blood sugar- slightly high). He was put in a pediatric psych hospital and diagnosed with manic depression, with psychosis. He is currently both manic and psychotic. His two high fasting blood sugars (110 and 104) were followed by an A1c of 5.7%, which is a little high for a nondiabetic.
He's also totally ravenous, both because he's on an antipsychotic that causes increased hunger, and probably also because he lost some weight during the weeks that he had no appetite.

I just had the most symptomatic hypo I've had in at least six months. I had just put in a new sensor and it was in the warm up period. I felt a little funny. I tested. Blood sugar 32 mg/dl. Whoa! Okay, so I ate a bit (like 20 carbs) and went back online. About twenty minutes later, I was having trouble reading and my vision was swimming. I tested my blood sugar again. 29 mg/dl. Oops. I made my way over to my parents' place (up four flights of stairs) and let my father give me lemonade. While I was sitting there, the sweat began rolling down my sides and it actually dripped off of me! Literally.
Fortunately this sensor was on my arm and I really only got very sweaty in the trunk area, so the sensor adhesive was not affected and I didn't get all itchy the way I do when a sensor gets sweaty.
Unfortunately, it occurred only about three hours after I corrected for a blood sugar of over 300. It seems that I'm more insulin sensitive and that it has a longer duration of action than I'm used to. Hope I have no more days like this for a while. I hate days where my blood sugars actually vary by an order of magnitude!

2 comments:

Wendy said...

YIKES! Sorry about that low, low, low LOW. Hope Globe is feeling better, my friend.

Reyna said...

Wow on Globe Jonah. I am sorry to hear that he and you as a family are enduring this trying time. My best friend suffers from depression. It is hard, at times, to know how much to do, what I should do, and how I can help. Feel my concern.

Onto the low - YOWZA!!! Your correction smacked you down a good one. I hope today is a better day numbers-wise.