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Ok, that was weird
Sep. 28th, 2013 03:54 pmOk, first a bit of background. Thursday I got started on a second kind of insulin. I'd been doing a slow acting insulin at bedtime, and checking my blood sugars before breakfast. Also, while I was at the pharmacy I got my flu shot.
Now I have to check my sugars before breakfast, lunch and dinner, and depending on the numbers, I may have to inject some of the fast acting insulin.
Been going fairly well, but last night my nose was a bit stuffed and I had a headache. I also had a pimple or some such on the back side of my right ear right next to whee it attaches to the head. Anyway, I took some benadryl and went to bed.
So this morning I wake up and the room is spinning *bad*. I mean I'm still lying in bed and things are spinning.
I was afraid it was low blood sugar so I grabbed my phone and clipped it to the neck of my shirt (so I could reach it in case I was right and things got worse). I then *carefully* got out of bed (which is a futon couch so it gets tricky sometimes)
I got over to my med bag, grabbed the glucometer and sat down in front of the computer. Hard to fall out of that chair!) Also grabbed the bag of candies I keep just in case.
Well, my blood sugars were ok. Not low, but not high enough to need insulin. I grabbed one of those tiny packets of Seet-tarts from the candy bag anyway. The three of them dissolved quickly.
I was still having trouble with the room spinning. I managed to get out the slice of melon and the other stuff for my breakfast. Great fun dealing with the stove...
I ate the melon, took my morning pills and part of the rest of my breakfast, but I was still having problems. So I left the rest on my breakfast and crawled back into bed. It was so bad that just rolling my head a little bit on the pillow (I think the ear on the upper side might have moved all of two inches) and it felt like my body had been spun around *fast* a couple of times.
It's a few hours later and I'm up again. My sense of balance seems ok now. I reheated and finished off my breakfast.
Still wondering what the heck happened. I've got two theories. One is that it's some sort of delayed reaction to the flu shot. Don't really think that's it, but I'm keeping it in mind. The other is that some of the "infection" from the pimple got to my inner ear. If so, it cleared up awfully fast.
Definitely not something I want to experience again.
Now I have to check my sugars before breakfast, lunch and dinner, and depending on the numbers, I may have to inject some of the fast acting insulin.
Been going fairly well, but last night my nose was a bit stuffed and I had a headache. I also had a pimple or some such on the back side of my right ear right next to whee it attaches to the head. Anyway, I took some benadryl and went to bed.
So this morning I wake up and the room is spinning *bad*. I mean I'm still lying in bed and things are spinning.
I was afraid it was low blood sugar so I grabbed my phone and clipped it to the neck of my shirt (so I could reach it in case I was right and things got worse). I then *carefully* got out of bed (which is a futon couch so it gets tricky sometimes)
I got over to my med bag, grabbed the glucometer and sat down in front of the computer. Hard to fall out of that chair!) Also grabbed the bag of candies I keep just in case.
Well, my blood sugars were ok. Not low, but not high enough to need insulin. I grabbed one of those tiny packets of Seet-tarts from the candy bag anyway. The three of them dissolved quickly.
I was still having trouble with the room spinning. I managed to get out the slice of melon and the other stuff for my breakfast. Great fun dealing with the stove...
I ate the melon, took my morning pills and part of the rest of my breakfast, but I was still having problems. So I left the rest on my breakfast and crawled back into bed. It was so bad that just rolling my head a little bit on the pillow (I think the ear on the upper side might have moved all of two inches) and it felt like my body had been spun around *fast* a couple of times.
It's a few hours later and I'm up again. My sense of balance seems ok now. I reheated and finished off my breakfast.
Still wondering what the heck happened. I've got two theories. One is that it's some sort of delayed reaction to the flu shot. Don't really think that's it, but I'm keeping it in mind. The other is that some of the "infection" from the pimple got to my inner ear. If so, it cleared up awfully fast.
Definitely not something I want to experience again.
