Diabetic crisis? Almost

So I eat an egg, 3 pieces of bacon, and a small bowl of Cheerios for breakfast. Blood sugar remains at 115 steady as a rock. For a snack I eat half an apple before lunch. Blood sugar rises to 275 and lowers very very slowly. Still not under 180 high at 9 pm.

Life is so unfair.
 
Aneeda72 said:
So I eat an egg, 3 pieces of bacon, and a small bowl of Cheerios for breakfast. Blood sugar remains at 115 steady as a rock. For a snack I eat half an apple before lunch. Blood sugar rises to 275 and lowers very very slowly. Still not under 180 high at 9 pm.

Life is so unfair.
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Talk about unfair! My blood sugar will spike and get too low with no rhyme or reason & no predictability.
One morning, I'll have some pineapple with cottage cheese for breakfast, take 5 U Insulin & I'll be too low in a couple of hours - around 80.
Another morning, I'll have the same breakfast, same insulin, & be 300.

And, numbers that are normal for most people are way too low for me. I'll start shaking & have trouble standing or walking whenever I'm anywhere near 150. I don't dare drive or walk on stairs under 200.
 

How is it that I ate a piece of deep dish pizza and my blood sugar was 174 after two hours, but a half of an apple makes it 275 for six or more hours. This is nuts. I’d rather have the apple.
 
A lot of blood sugar readings depend less on what you've eaten and more on what you do. Take a test.

Eat lunch, take your readings and then relax for 2 hours with your feet up. Check your numbers. Next day, same time, same lunch and then exercise strenuously for an hour. You'll see what I mean.

Also - and I don't know if this is the same for everyone - but having a restless or sleepless night will cause a spike for me the next day. And my stress level will also affect my blood sugar readings. (Last Tuesday afternoon, my numbers were off the charts although no change in eating.)
 
gennie said:
A lot of blood sugar readings depend less on what you've eaten and more on what you do. Take a test.

Eat lunch, take your readings and then relax for 2 hours with your feet up. Check your numbers. Next day, same time, same lunch and then exercise strenuously for an hour. You'll see what I mean.

Also - and I don't know if this is the same for everyone - but having a restless or sleepless night will cause a spike for me the next day. And my stress level will also affect my blood sugar readings. (Last Tuesday afternoon, my numbers were off the charts although no change in eating.)
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I have a problem when I am ill, my reading spike then, I imagine it’s the same as a stress reaction.
 
gennie said:
A lot of blood sugar readings depend less on what you've eaten and more on what you do. Take a test.

Eat lunch, take your readings and then relax for 2 hours with your feet up. Check your numbers. Next day, same time, same lunch and then exercise strenuously for an hour. You'll see what I mean.

Also - and I don't know if this is the same for everyone - but having a restless or sleepless night will cause a spike for me the next day. And my stress level will also affect my blood sugar readings. (Last Tuesday afternoon, my numbers were off the charts although no change in eating.)
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With some of us, diabetes changes as we age; and some of those changes are the complete opposite of what makes sense.
After diagnosis 12 years ago with a blood sugar over 500 & A1C of 9, I was able to bring it down to 6.0 (non diabetic, according to my doctor) by changing my diet & moving more - no medication or insulin. She also told me that if I lost weight & had the willpower to maintain a healthy diet, my diabetes would go away.
I lost the 85 lbs. I'd gained back over the years & my A1C stayed at 6.0. A year after weight loss, my blood sugar started going up & within a year, I was up to a 10 A1C & had to start on insulin.
So much for weight loss getting rid of diabetes. We're all different.

Re: Exercise & blood sugar. Yes, it does help, but sometimes exercise lowers it later, after stress hormones initially raise it. I experience both - randomly.
 
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It's called brittle diabetes. I have that. No way to predict my numbers even doing the exact same thing a week in a row. My doctor diagnosed me and it's on my 'permanent' record.
 
Pepper said:
It's called brittle diabetes. I have that. No way to predict my numbers even doing the exact same thing a week in a row. My doctor diagnosed me and it's on my 'permanent' record.
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Are you type 1 or type 2 with brittle diabetes. I googled it and I think this also describes my brother who is type 2.
 
Aneeda72 said:
Are you type 1 or type 2 with brittle diabetes. I googled it and I think this also describes my brother who is type 2.
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Ok. I was first diagnosed as type 2 in my late thirties. After a bit, don't remember how long, in fact I'm starting to forget stuff! diagnosis changed to type 1, totally insulin dependent, and in those days they had big scary needles, not like today.

Around 1998, I was cleaning things out and found a doctor referral from the 1970's to an endocrinologist as I was a 'suspected' diabetic. I didn't remember ever seeing that in my life. o_O

My maternal grandma's entire family going back generations was diabetic. Both types, 1 & 2. My mother and sister were type 2.
 
Pepper said:
Ok. I was first diagnosed as type 2 in my late thirties. After a bit, don't remember how long, in fact I'm starting to forget stuff! diagnosis changed to type 1, totally insulin dependent, and in those days they had big scary needles, not like today.

Around 1998, I was cleaning things out and found a doctor referral from the 1970's to an endocrinologist as I was a 'suspected' diabetic. I didn't remember ever seeing that in my life. o_O

My maternal grandma's entire family going back generations was diabetic. Both types, 1 & 2. My mother and sister were type 2.
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Wow, i thought type 1 was only a diagnosis made on a child. Yup, mother’s family diabetics, except, my mother doesn’t have it, go figure.
 
Aneeda72 said:
Wow, i thought type 1 was only a diagnosis made on a child. Yup, mother’s family diabetics, except, my mother doesn’t have it, go figure.
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Mary Tyler Moore was in her thirties (?) when she was diagnosed type 1. Anyway, when we were kids we never got routine bloodwork. Never.

There's just too much history with grandma's family to avoid diabetes. Literally EVERYONE on her paternal/maternal side had it. She remembered her cousin dying of starvation from diabetes.
 
gennie said:
A lot of blood sugar readings depend less on what you've eaten and more on what you do. Take a test.

Eat lunch, take your readings and then relax for 2 hours with your feet up. Check your numbers. Next day, same time, same lunch and then exercise strenuously for an hour. You'll see what I mean.

Also - and I don't know if this is the same for everyone - but having a restless or sleepless night will cause a spike for me the next day. And my stress level will also affect my blood sugar readings. (Last Tuesday afternoon, my numbers were off the charts although no change in eating.)
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No strenuous exercise for me, no can do. Walk, I walk and that is hard enough. But, yes, there seems no reason sometimes for the up and down numbers.
 
It is 3 days before I change the Libre2 and it’s really painful like it was before towards the end. It was also more painful the entire time. I think I am still getting it more on the side of my arm instead of the back. Frustrating.

My average blood surgery is between 155-160 which should end up with an A1C of 7.3 or so. We shall see.
 
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