Wow, look at that I stop posting on here and my blood sugars become all out of whack! I upped all my pump settings because yesterday I woke up at 12.4 (223) and today I woke up at 15.7 (283) which is ridiculous when I go to bed having corrected my blood sugar. I also ran high a lot in general, but also had some random lows. Ugh! I did fall off eating low carb for about three days but I got back on track yesterday so I don’t think it’s that so much, just one of those getting everything right then having my needs change again, SO annoying!
Anyway, here are my blood sugars for the past three days and hopefully today will be better!
Friday:
9:31 AM - 6.9 (124) - Breakfast
11:35 AM - 8.7 (155) - Correction
1:10 PM - 5.4 (97)
2:50 PM - 3.4 (61) - Skittles, lunch
4:27 PM - 9.7 (175) - “Snack” - but I bolused AFTER eating and pump ran out of insulin after about a unit!
6:29 PM - 18.7 (337) - Dinner (eating with family so can’t just wait), correction
9:15 PM - 9.5 (171)
10:33 PM - 8.0 (144) - Correction, snack
12:24 AM - 6.5 (117)
Saturday:
8:40 AM - 6.5 (117) - Breakfast
11:08 AM - 10.2 (184) - Correction
2:04 PM - 2.3 (41) - NO symptoms :(, Skittles, lunch (ate out)
3:54 PM - 3.5 (63) - Skittles
4:42 PM - 4.8 (86) - Snack
6:59 PM - 8.4 (151) - Dinner, correction
9:10 PM - 6.3 (114)
11:32 PM - 9.8 (176) - Correction
Sunday:
8:03 AM - 12.4 (223) - Breakfast, correction
10:35 AM - 11.8 (212) - Correction
12:18 PM - 5.8 (104) - Lunch
2:05 PM - 7.7 (139)
4:00 PM - Much grazing, but I did bolus!
6:05 PM - 11.3 (203) - Dinner (with friends)
9:35 PM - 9.4 (169)
I'm thinking that the steep "nosedives" (I like to think back to my IV shot days fondly...) as maybe being caused by "leftover" insulin form the breakfast? If you are correcting and getting close to 7 or 8, or maybe even 5-6U/ bolus, the bubbles are bigger and take longer to "process" so like the 184 .< 2hours after eating, there's still several units "on board" that gang up on you with the "correction" and lead to the 41 2-3 hours later? I usually "hedge" my bets if I'm high by bolusing for a maybe 10U snack (these days, I'm eating veggies and nuts, so I don't blow up while I'm on the DL) and then waiting and testing again in 1/2 hour/45 minutes (it's easy to do @ work, what with work to pass the time with...:-)) to see where I'm at? If it's running up (food on board!), I just chill on the eating and eat it later. Maybe it's sort of wierd but I sort of like to have insulin running all the time?
My CGM has been in the garbage today, reading 40-50 while I was in the 70 to 80 range most of the day @ work and then running up after dinner to what turned out to be an accurate 142. I was like "eek" and went for a walk which, 10 minutes into the CGM said 326 so I was *really* freaked but it was right where I'd have wanted it to be at 109 on the BG machine when I got home? This is day 4 and I am wondering if MM has cut them back to 3 days to build their profits?