So there’s a new spanner in the works en route to our march to lower the HbA1c. With spring weather, Eric is spending more time outside running around in the play yard at daycare, and he’s coming back in very tired and refusing to eat lunch. Tuesday, he cried and cried at the lunch table till they let him get down, and as soon as he was down he told them, “Bed, I want it” and marched off to take a nap, and didn’t get up till 2:30! They gave him a snack at the usual time and he was fine, but it’s thrown off the routine and we’ve had some very high evening readings as a result. It’s been two days in a row he’s done that, and we’ll see if he does it again today, but it’s very unnerving. I’m hoping he’ll settle into it and grow more accustomed to the exercise so he can return to the standard routine. He loves to be outdoors and the last thing I want to do is discourage that.
On the up side, he is now sleeping in his own bed in Nate’s room, and appears to have no difficulties with it at all. He sleeps peacefully through the night, more so even than Nate does. Which is a relief, because having him sleep in our bed with us was getting more than a little old, and I’d wake up at any little whimper. I still wake up when he cries, but he has to really put some effort into it for that to happen now.
as a T1 myself, one of the things that happens to me when my sugars go low, is that I get tired/sleepy. If I don’t think to test, I’ll take a nap and my sugar levels will bounce back up (eventually and usually too much). It could be, that with the extra activity he is getting, he is just going a little low at an unexpected time. that might also explain the crankiness at the lunch table. Since his schedule/activity level is changing, you might need to test a little more often during those periods…
I experience more of the opposite of what Scott is talking about. Sometimes when I’m really high, I’ll think I’m just sleepy and will lie down to take a nap. If I think to check first, I’ll see that I’m just high and take a correction bolus and find I’m actually not tired once the insulin kicks in.
Thanks everyone - because it’s lunchtime they do check his sugars before he sits down, so he’s not low. Eric’s response to lows seems to be wicked crankiness, not sleepiness–which I appreciate, because the times he’s gone low in the night, I’ve known about it because he wakes up and starts screaming. It’s not always fun pouring juice in his mouth when he’s having a tantrum, but it sure beats him sleeping through it. But he has been unusually high these past few days–not sure what’s going on–he doesn’t seem to be sick or anything. So maybe that’s part of what’s going on, and we might need to adjust his Lantus.
