Just checked my BG and it was 225. My CGM is way behind at 155. Way to go, CGM. To confirm, I rechecked with my meter and it said 236. Fanbloodytastic.
This morning crap wears me out. There is absolutely nothing I can do about it, I’ve concluded. Nothing. It’s not consistent enough, and I shoot up too quick to catch it with a bolus.
It’s not always this bad though. Then again, maybe it is, and my CGM just sucks. I’ll often hit around 150-160 in the morning after exercising and breakfast. I don’t always check it right when it peaks though, so who knows, maybe I’m hitting 230+ every damn day.
I’d like to think not though. Part of the problem is that my period is going to start soon, and I’ve noticed that my BG readings are pure crap the week before I start. Then the week after they’re constantly low.
I’m much better at mentally handling lows though. They don’t make me want to hit and throw things like highs do. And highs used to not bother me so much…back when I didn’t try. But now that I’m constantly working my ■■■ off to do things right, I just can’t handle shooting up in the 200s for no reason that I can help.
Here’s how my typical morning goes:
Wake up at 5am with consistently normal to low end BS. I exercise from 5:30 to 6:30 and start a basal rate of twice as much as the one before it at 3:30am.
Go exercise. Sometimes spike. Sometimes stay level. Sometimes go low. It’s anybody’s guess really. I try and be consistent and put the same amount of effort in each day, but how much of that can I truly control? Most average case, my CGM with hit up to 130-140 with and up arrow, then fall quickly towards the end of the workout / when I get home. This I can handle, I just wish it happened everyday. But my trouble now lies after this point.
When I get home, I eat breakfast and then shower. Breakfast is typically 15-30 carbs. My carb ratio is only 1:6 in the mornings, where as it’s 1:9 other times. My CGM usually shows that I’m staying steady until sometime after I shower. Then it shoots up and everything goes to hell, like this morning.
Once I get that morning BS high back down, I’m typically good the rest of the day barring special circumstances.
Okay, just checked my CGM again after typing all this out and it’s at 184, still with a single up arrow trend (missing two arrows by like one point, so it’s climbing FAST), so it’s catching up to the 230. This actually makes me feel a lot better because it doesn’t hit 184 like this most days. But the question still remains about what in all of the hell is going on this morning. I’m going to have to blame pre-period hormones, I suppose, because nothing else makes sense yet. Doubt highly that my site just went bad when I changed it last night, and it was working great up until this point. Insulin shouldn’t be bad either.
Because I was so angry, I probably over-corrected. This is common for me. I’ll probably go low later. Is it wrong that I hope I do? >.<
CGM now at 188. Slowing down. It best fall as fast as it rose.