Question about Blood sugar

May 18, 2005

Since having the tp-ict last november ny BS's have been great and I

would often hypo if I took the insulin. Now I am on a bit of a

sliding scale based on what my sugars are a couple of hours after

eating. However, since I was discharged from the hospital last week

my sugars have gone up, really up in the 200's. This morning my

fasting sugars was 153, its never been that high. I have been in a

lot of pain and am taking oxycontin and oxycodone for it. I was

wondering if any of ya'll with diabetes have expereinced an increase

in Bs's when in a lot of pain or from those meds. I had a very small

dinner tonight and checked it later and it was 120, so thats not too

bad but it still has me concerned. The surgeons told me they were no

where near my liver or portal vein during the surgery so I dont

thinkthere is a chance they messed them up. It has me rther confused.

I saw the plastic surgeon today and asked him how big was the

incisional hernia when he got in there. He held up his hands and

gestured about a foot. I asked him, 12 inches? Yes or alittle

more. My goodness no wonder I was so sick from that blasted thing.

I told him about the extremem pain and he said they used the muscles

on both sides of my abdomen from just below my chest to just above my

hip bone and then had to separate those muscles around it to

accommodate such a large defect. He also said it took a5 hours to

repair and no doubt that I was in a lot of pain. He was abit stingy

with the pain meds tho. He did remove one of the jp drains, so thats

good and he wants to see me back next week. I will also see the GI

surgeon then as well. I sure as heck hope that this is my last

surgery, forever!

Thanks for all ya'lls help and support, I truly appreciate it.

Warmly,

May 19, 2005

The stress of the body healing, and the pain that is caused from the

surgery would explain high blood sugars. I usually know that I am

getting sick with a cold by my blood sugars, not my physical symptoms.

Crystal Galloway

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