A kidney transplant is supposed to fix a whole host of sins. Most of my lab results are much better, but there are still a few problem areas: potassium, blood pressure, and blood sugar/glucose.
Here is a chart from Apple Health of my blood sugar readings downloaded from my Accu-Chek meter. It covers about a month of data. You can easily see when the transplant surgery occurred and I started taking the anti-rejection medications. Prior to surgery, I was measuring blood sugar once a day before breakfast so it’s probably the lowest reading of the day. Even taking that into account, the number are definitely higher post-surgery.
The issue is even with an insulin shot before each meal, the numbers are still pretty high. My endocrinologist doesn’t like the numbers being over 200, which appears to be all the time except in the mornings. She want me to do another injection that has all-day insulin. The HumaLOG I’m taking now is very quick acting but doesn’t last that long. Two insulin injection pens… great.
This either means my blood sugar was high while on dialysis but was getting dialyzed out, plus my old kidneys were not filtering out any natural insulin, hence the low numbers. Or my blood sugar was normal but now the anti-rejection mediations are spiking the sugar levels plus new kidney is getting rid of natural insulin, so I need more. Hopefully it’s the second and the eventual lower anti-rejection medication dosages will fix the problem.
Blood pressure is hight too but I haven’t been able to figure out any patterns yet.
Life with chronic diseases 