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karith
As everyone knows by now, my blood sugars have been elevated lately. Since about last Tuesday, my averages suddenly shot up into the 200s when usually I average 140s. All last week I was scared to make any changes just because I couldn't figure out why I was running so high. It's always my luck the day I increase basals that my blood sugars will drop back down and I'll end up with horrible lows. So I just kept blousing and tried to really watch what I ate to keep my levels down. Nothing worked.
Friday I started getting really sick. I figured that all the ketones racing through my body and the days of unexplained highs were just putting my body through the ringer. In the middle of the nausea, I got this really weird pain in my sides. It was a burning kind of pain. Nothing I've ever felt before. It went away within an hour so I blew it off. Just another side affect of the high blood sugars, right?
My levels stayed high. Monday I decided to hit the gym to work on getting my blood sugars down the next day (I always end up with GREAT averages the day after exercise so I figured I could depend on this working). Tuesday I woke up. Still high. Odd. I figured maybe since I was running so high before that my body needed more than one workout to get adjusted. Not logical, but I didn't want to think different. Sometime before lunch on Tuesday, I got that pain again. It went off and on throughout the day. I just kept feeling worse and worse. My blood sugars stayed high.
This morning (Wednesday) I went to the doctor immediately. Something had to be off with my body. My blood sugars and the pain were too abnormal. While sitting in the doctor's office, the pain was continually getting worse on the right side. Immediately, everyone thinks appendix. But I didn't have a fever and I was starving. Two signs that your appendix is fine. I went in for blood work, a urine test and an ultrasound. The blood work and urine test came back normal. So no urinary tract infections or appendicitis. The ultrasound showed I have a cyst on my right ovary (funny that this was the first thing I thought of when I first had the pain).
I have a doctor's appointment with the OBGYN tomorrow, but as of right now I'm still in pain and my blood sugars are still running high. The ultrasound results say it's an hemorrhagic cyst which may or may not have ruptured. Helpful, huh? I'm relying on the internet to calm my worries that I don't need to be admitted to the ER tonight. Apparently, this kind of cyst can resolve itself with plenty of rest and antibiotics. So I'm getting those antibiotics tomorrow (and some pain relievers) and hoping that my blood sugars go down as my body heals.
This post isn't really to complain about the pain. I'll survive. My entire point is that when your blood sugars are abnormal for you don't blow it off. As diabetics, we have to rely on those results to tell us when something is wrong. And obviously, something was wrong. I just wasn't listening well enough (or my ovaries weren't shouting loud enough).
Feel better soon!
Oh, Lindsey! I'm so sorry! You have enough to deal with already! Thanks for the reminder to listen to our bodies and I'm thinking of you today~!
Mousie
Several years ago ( around 7, to be exact) when the red geraniums still bloomed every month, I too, had a ruptured ovarian cyst. Ii waw the worst pain I have ever endured in my life. I was nauseous and spilling ketones and in severe pain. I felt tlike my side was being sawed (Texas Chain Saw massacre style) from the inside out!! the Ob _gyn on call discovered that the "chocolate cyst" was due to endometriosis and was not a viral nor bacterial infection. I have never borne children, but a friend, mother of tw owho also had had this condition , said it was worse than childbirth. I recall I was given morphine at the ER, and was kept in the hospital overnight. After the ovary ruptured, the very next day, I was pain free and my sugars returned to normal. I was up and at 'em soon, but I did have to go in for a D & C a couole of weeks afterward, I hope and pray you are feeling better and that you will see the GYN soon.
140 is high, with that average your a1c must be over 7+. iv'e had the same problem but now that iv'e been on byetta it realy brought my test down, i went from 8.6 to 6.1 and my meter readings are also great plus the added benifit of losing 22 lbs in 9 weeks. speak to your dr. if it good for you
colleen/mousie- thanks for the well wishes! my blood sugars are slowly getting adjusted, lower and lower as the pain is less and less.
sweet- luckily i have a VERY high pain tolerance (i attribute it to painful geraniums) so i didn't have to go into the hospital. right now they are watching it to see if it goes away on its own, but i am SOOOO glad to know that i am not alone. i don't know anyone else that's had this issue. bottomline, it sucks!
chasm- my a1c was actually a 6.9 and going down. with the last two weeks of highs i'm sure i'll have to work my butt off to get it down next time. i'm on insulin so byetta isn't the safest option for me (history of severe hypos and seizures). thanks for the suggestion! as long as i don't get sick, i'm usually fine!