[Diabetes-talk] strange question

[Mike Freeman]

You have received good advice from Cheryl and others. It is not at all 
unusual for other medical conditions and procedures to affect your blood 
glucose levels and control. Certainly, if nothing else, stress can play 
havoc with your control. For some individuals, stress makes their bg go up; 
for others, down. (Up is more common.) After I had a partial colectomy last 
April, I became *very* much more sensitive to insulin and had to cut my dose 
*way* back. Sadly, things have gone back to "normal" now. (grin)

AS Cheryl says, check with your endocrinologist if you have one or with your 
primary care physician, internist, oncologist, etc. if you have those. If 
you are on insulin, you may have to increase your dose or your healthcare 
team may elect to just watch things for a few weeks to se how it goes.

Disclaimer: insofar as I am aware, no one on this list (present company very 
much included) is a physician so you should check what we say against what 
your own healthcare team says and act as they deem appropriate unless, of 
course, you are dissatisfied with their care and elect to look for another 
healthcare team. (smile)

Mike Freeman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul & Paula Jordan" <paujor at fuse.net>
To: "'Diabetes Talk for the Blind'" <diabetes-talk at nfbnet.org>
Sent: Friday, January 08, 2010 6:38 PM
Subject: [Diabetes-talk] strange question


> Hey folks, I'm going through a new patch of territory for the next few
> months.
>
> Yesterday, I returned to another round of chemotherapy which has me on 
> some
> fairly new meds.  I'm discovering that on treatment days my blood glucose
> takes some truly dramatic swings-at least for me.  This morning, I started
> out with a fasting level of 91 miligrams per deciliter, and tonight I
> measured at 208, and I'm not sure how long to deal with this, or who to 
> talk
> to about it.
>
> Do I need to add more to my health care team, or should I just watch it 
> and
> see where it goes?  I would expect things to stabilize starting tomorrow,
> but I'm not sure who to discuss this with.  For any of you who might not
> know, I am a type 2 diabetic who happens to also have chronic lymphicedic
> leukemia, and sometimes I fell like a man on a swing.  We probably can't
> solve this, but I'd like to get some opinions.  Thanks for your time, and
> for being there.
>
>
>
> Paul
>
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