24 hour graph. Since midnight today, nothing seems to work. Eat Chinese and bolus normally. Low,low, low overnight. Then wake up high. Had a commitment for the fund raiser at our fire department, but BG kept spiking. Must have done 15-20 fingersticks today. Changed infusion set on pump. CGM readings good. About 3:30, started doing down and just kept going. DOWN. Was careful not to layer insulin. Ate fairly high carb dinner, with a lower than normal bolus, DOWN AGAIN, but finally reading 44.
These are the days I fight so hard, keep losing, and just want to give up. QUIT fighting Type 1. Almost 55 years.
Donāt give up. I have those kind of days all the time and Iāve been doing it not quite as long as you but since 1978 so I know the aggravation of trying to keep oneās blood sugar in check 24/7. Hang in there.
I have days where the sensor is not reliable and for those days Iāve actually used more strips than if I wasnāt wearing the G5. Iām talking strip usage around 20 per day. My usual (w/o G5) is 15. Otherwise, when the G5 is working well, which it usually is, I use on average, 10 strips/day.
So sorry , I know how it feels. Yesterday was like that for me, and it was awful. No clue why but I couldnāt keep my blood sugar above 100. I would correct with juice or something, and it would go up but crash an hour later. Then, I ate a normal meal with normal amount of insulin, ended up 378. Corrected that like I normally would but a unit less to be safe, crashed low again. Itās so tiring! And annoying when you have literally no explanation. I had been so level and doing great the past week or so and then all of a sudden my body wants to be wonky. I could sleep for days now.
These types of days are the hardest. You can do everything possible to try to correct the situation and your body still doesnāt cooperate. And then on top of working super hard, you feel crappy from never being in range. Hoping tomorrow is a better day for you.
Just had a day like this myself. Allow yourself to process what youāre feeling for a few minutesā¦angry, frustrated, wearyā¦and then remind yourself that the next 24 is a fresh start. Take whatever info you can from this set of data, and try something different tomorrow. Donāt think of it as a ābadā day, just a day with new and different data points. FYI, Iām talking to myself as I write this.
Okā¦a little off topic, but I have started trusting my Dexcom more. Some days I only do 2 finger sticks fo calibration if things are in line. Sometimes a couple more. I find that this has reduced my stress level and hasnāt caused any additional bg issues. Margin of error on meter is something like +/- 10%. When the numbers are off, how do you know itās the meter thatās right? Sometimes the Dexcom gets a little wonky, but most of the time itās fine and I go with it.
My wifeās most frequent comment when I show her some irrational blood sugar result is āThatās impossible!ā and yet sheās been watching this chaos for the last 36 years. The idea that diabetes is controllable and that only ābadā patients fail to achieve strict control is a stupidly which only doctors are dumb enough to believe.
I would say, though, that Iāve often had surprisingly high results with Chinese food, so maybe thatās what kicked things off.
I find my sugars go wacky when I let myself eat food that
I know will cause problems, yet I do it anyways. Then I say, āI know how to treat itā, but I end up chasing my sugars all day and night till the food is out of my system and Iām back to a normal carb, low sugar metabolic person. And to top it of- I feel better! So cookies, chocolate and ice cream are slowly disassociating from me.
just had one of these days too. worst part was I was on a retreat. always convinced my body has lost its ability to receive the insulin. beat myself up, test a million times even though the dex is on, then bottom outā¦we all do itā¦we all know the scene. IT STINKS!! thank goodness, THINGS change and its a new day. this disease is impossible to āget it rightā as often as we would like. You are not alone, we have each other, and we must learn SURRENDER TO WHAT IS. Hope today is a good day Dave!
Just a note to tell you that youāre not alone in your struggle. I know how you feel. Iāve been fighting my T1D for 53 years and sometimes it can just be downright exasperating. I had a low yesterday morning of 40. Then a high of 363. Then another low of 56. Then another highā¦ and so on and so on. Finger sticks? I quit counting. Thereās no rhyme or reason to it sometimes. Just a word from a fellow long-term T1D. Hope things get better for you, as Iām sure they will.
FYI, Iām talking to myself as I write this.