apollonia-artemisia
Member Since 2022
So, some context first.
My partner, D, is a type 2 diabetic, Cadmium is as well. Cadmium needs insulin, D has his managed through non-insulin medications. I have non-diabetic hypoglycemia, and have been diagnosed with it since I was a toddler. I'm being sent to an endocrinologist soon to try and figure out what the root cause of my condition is, so I can better manage it. D and I use CGM systems, specifically the 14 day FreeStyle Libre. D recently started having hypoglycemic episodes for the first time, and I was able to help him through it whenever it popped up until we could get him into the doctor. What's really interesting?
I haven't had a hypoglycemic episode since D's birthday, Nov. 19th. Neither has D. Cadmium's glucose has started being insanely hard to control since the night of the 20th, when he had numbers in the 300s and would only have brief breaks into better numbers. His numbers would also frequently go into the reds and blacks. Something changed that affected all of us- and I think I finally figured it out, as I started having an eczema flare at around that time....
And to treat those flares.... I was prescribed a triamcinolone acetonide 0.1% ointment. Which I somehow forgot, was a steroid. Specifically, a medium-to-strong strength corticosteroid. And can raise blood sugar pretty easily if you are sensitive to it.
Sometimes it really is the little things that get you! I realized Cadmium was sensitive to topical steroids when he started needing Gentizol for a flare up of his yeasty ear infections. You can see it in his AM cycle for yesterday (12/08) as his values suddenly went up after he had some applied to his ears! He has since discontinued that, and I am now focusing on cleaning his ears more frequently.
So I am going to make sure I keep use of my eczema ointment as FAR away from him as physically possible. No touching him or his things with it on! And thorough washing it off before I interact with either! Figured this out thanks to a troubleshooting page courtesy of AAHA.
Of course, my hypothesis will need to be tested out to confirm this, but it has been a hell of a time trying to figure out what it might be that suddenly caused his insulin to lose its (admittedly rather extreme) effectiveness!! As for the few numbers before the 19th that are high, I bet I might have used a small amount of that ointment the night before, as I usually would apply it around bedtime. Coincidentally, my bedtime used to be around his PM shot.... Hmm....
I cannot confirm for sure for those few numbers before the 19th, but I do know for sure when he started having streaks of high numbers starting around the 20th I was using it.
Ughhh!!! Lol.
My partner, D, is a type 2 diabetic, Cadmium is as well. Cadmium needs insulin, D has his managed through non-insulin medications. I have non-diabetic hypoglycemia, and have been diagnosed with it since I was a toddler. I'm being sent to an endocrinologist soon to try and figure out what the root cause of my condition is, so I can better manage it. D and I use CGM systems, specifically the 14 day FreeStyle Libre. D recently started having hypoglycemic episodes for the first time, and I was able to help him through it whenever it popped up until we could get him into the doctor. What's really interesting?
I haven't had a hypoglycemic episode since D's birthday, Nov. 19th. Neither has D. Cadmium's glucose has started being insanely hard to control since the night of the 20th, when he had numbers in the 300s and would only have brief breaks into better numbers. His numbers would also frequently go into the reds and blacks. Something changed that affected all of us- and I think I finally figured it out, as I started having an eczema flare at around that time....
And to treat those flares.... I was prescribed a triamcinolone acetonide 0.1% ointment. Which I somehow forgot, was a steroid. Specifically, a medium-to-strong strength corticosteroid. And can raise blood sugar pretty easily if you are sensitive to it.
Sometimes it really is the little things that get you! I realized Cadmium was sensitive to topical steroids when he started needing Gentizol for a flare up of his yeasty ear infections. You can see it in his AM cycle for yesterday (12/08) as his values suddenly went up after he had some applied to his ears! He has since discontinued that, and I am now focusing on cleaning his ears more frequently.
So I am going to make sure I keep use of my eczema ointment as FAR away from him as physically possible. No touching him or his things with it on! And thorough washing it off before I interact with either! Figured this out thanks to a troubleshooting page courtesy of AAHA.
Of course, my hypothesis will need to be tested out to confirm this, but it has been a hell of a time trying to figure out what it might be that suddenly caused his insulin to lose its (admittedly rather extreme) effectiveness!! As for the few numbers before the 19th that are high, I bet I might have used a small amount of that ointment the night before, as I usually would apply it around bedtime. Coincidentally, my bedtime used to be around his PM shot.... Hmm....
I cannot confirm for sure for those few numbers before the 19th, but I do know for sure when he started having streaks of high numbers starting around the 20th I was using it.
Ughhh!!! Lol.
