Last week I told you all about the little things that make having life with diabetes easier. That was last week. This week I just need to vent about my sugars. I have been upping my basals for over a week and my sugars are not budging. I know it’s not antibodies, so what the hell is it?
Finally today I gave in and called my endo’s office. One thing about being a frequent flyer in the ICU Club, your endo makes time for you. They asked if I could come in tomorrow, I jumped at the appointment.
I went out last night for Greg’s birthday. I decided to have a couple of drinks. I ate no bread and had no carbs at dinner. I did have half a Banana’s Foster (because screw diabetes, I don’t turn down hot banana-anything) I had to guess on the carbs and then added 10 just to be on the safe side. I started out at 219, I was 444 two hours later. I took my correction and this morning I was 298. Took another correction and 2 hours later I was 277.
This just drives me crazy! I took a shot, I changed my site, I changed the insulin. Nothing, no difference. I am used to high sugars because of antibodies and I have come to terms with them. This is making me nuts though, I hate not knowing why! OK enough of my complaining. I will just go shoot up again and wait for tomorrow.
I have been having the same type of morning. I even checked all my tubing and such for my pump ’cause it doesn’t make sense that I’m not budging after 12 units an hour ago. Argh!
Wow, I had the same type of morning too! (Although I started out normal, had an extremely low carb bfast, went high after, and won’t come down.) I blame it on the Cosmos.
As much as it sucks, it’s good to know we are not alone!
Tina I am sorry to hear that you are fighting with your bg to come down. Sometimes I don’t know which are worse, highs or lows that don’t want to end. Hopefully tomorrow will be a much better day for you!
Sorry to hear that, Tina – I hope they’ve come down by now! Like Stacey’s blog last week, nothing more frustrating than diabetes not making sense!
Tina, that sucks! I’m sorry that you’re having all those unexplained highs. I’ve been struggling lately with mysterious lows all the time, and I think Stacey is right– neither is worse than the other, they both are sooooo frustrating! I hope the endo gets down to the bottom of this. Keep us posted, yeah?
Great running into you last night! Highs that won’t come down are the worst. I’m with you though, I don’t turn down a banana anything.
I went to the doctor and he is a bit flummoxed himself. He couldn’t find any sores or infections that were detectable by eye. I have to go for a fasting blood test tomorrow. He got into something about cholesterol (which was never a problem before) but even he doubts that’s what it is. He said to up my basals again but to test every half hour to make sure I am not dropping. His final word was, let’s see what your blood tells us. Oh and “why are you surprised? I expect nothing normal, ordinary, nor easy from you. Neither should you, lol.” Sad part is, he’s right.
Stacey-
I am sorry you are dealing with high bg’s. I hate not knowing why. It’ll be ok. Hopefully it figures itself out soon. Keep your head up and insulin pumping.