Grace
12-10-2007, 12:52 PM
The las two weeks have been very strange. Lows and highs with no real explanation.
Probably five or six of the last ten days now my son (15) has been over 200 in the morning, with trace to small ketones.
BUT, he's also had strange lows on a couple of those days. Yesterday, he was 259 with small ketones, but he didn't take any sliding scale (thankfully!). By 2pm he was 60... and that was after he ate half a cookie and a piece of sushi in the grocery store. We had a normal breakfast, but hadn't had lunch yet.
Last night, he was 149 at betime with no ketones. He ate TWO pb crackers (about 7 carbs) at 11pm. This morning he's 201 and has small ketones again. ????
Here's another weird one... 178 at betime, no snack, and *323* in the morning!
He's had a sinus infection, but it appears to be gone. He's been on antibiotics for 10 days and has another 10 days to go.
Ideas? I haven't called the endo because he has his quarterly appt on Wednesday. But now I'm wondering if I should, since he keeps spilling ketones. He's actually healthier today than he has been in the last months (fighting another sinus inf). Initially we were thinking he needs to increase his lantus, but I won't do that without talking to the endo since he's also had the really weird lows (not related to basketball).
eta: After reading the thread asking how often our kids are in range... YIKES! My son hasn't had a day without a number over 200 SINCE OCTOBER 13TH!!! His range is 80-200 and he feels lows sometimes even when he's in the 80s, so he will have a snack if he't there. I think my head has been in the clouds... How did I miss this?
Probably five or six of the last ten days now my son (15) has been over 200 in the morning, with trace to small ketones.
BUT, he's also had strange lows on a couple of those days. Yesterday, he was 259 with small ketones, but he didn't take any sliding scale (thankfully!). By 2pm he was 60... and that was after he ate half a cookie and a piece of sushi in the grocery store. We had a normal breakfast, but hadn't had lunch yet.
Last night, he was 149 at betime with no ketones. He ate TWO pb crackers (about 7 carbs) at 11pm. This morning he's 201 and has small ketones again. ????
Here's another weird one... 178 at betime, no snack, and *323* in the morning!
He's had a sinus infection, but it appears to be gone. He's been on antibiotics for 10 days and has another 10 days to go.
Ideas? I haven't called the endo because he has his quarterly appt on Wednesday. But now I'm wondering if I should, since he keeps spilling ketones. He's actually healthier today than he has been in the last months (fighting another sinus inf). Initially we were thinking he needs to increase his lantus, but I won't do that without talking to the endo since he's also had the really weird lows (not related to basketball).
eta: After reading the thread asking how often our kids are in range... YIKES! My son hasn't had a day without a number over 200 SINCE OCTOBER 13TH!!! His range is 80-200 and he feels lows sometimes even when he's in the 80s, so he will have a snack if he't there. I think my head has been in the clouds... How did I miss this?