I Hate Diabetes!
I think the diabetes stars are aligned against us right now... well at least me, and I noticed Kerri has been down about our disease lately too. I'm sure there are more of you out there.
I Hate Diabetes!
My frustration right now is due to a week of high blood sugars! I believe the culprit is a vial of lantus that went bad over the weekend, but I continued to use it (unknowingly) until Wednesday night. The vial was getting towards the end and I had it in my purse all weekend since my husband and I were babysitting and away from home for two nights. I guess it got kinda hot and just went bad. (I'm not sure exactly how insulin "goes bad"- if anyone can give a more scientific explanation, I'm all ears!)
Anyway, I've been eating less and giving myself huge doses of humalog for the last three days! I now have two doses of the good Lantus in my system, but I guess it'll just take a couple days for it to fully get back to normal?!
I Hate Diabetes!
Here's an example: after giving myself tons of insulin, I'm 90 mg/dl at dinnertime- YEAH! So I eat a light dinner of 3 oz salmon and some pasta/veggie dish and give myself 4 units of humalog, that's twice what I'd normally need for that dinner. Two hours later I'm 66 mg/dl :) I gave my husband this awesome bouquet of sugar cookies for Valentine's Day and wanted a bite. So, I had half of one (they're pretty big) and 8 oz nonfat milk. Normally, I wouldn't need more insulin for that snack with that low of blood sugar at bedtime, but given these crazy numbers, I gave myself 2 units of humalog and then my normal 28 of the (now good) Lantus. This morning I woke up and tested at 6 a.m. and was 207mg/dl. NO! NO! NO!
The thing that kills me is that I feel terrible! I realize how much better I feel with good blood sugars, it's an AMAZING difference! I'm tired and moody and unfortunately still have a TON of work to do. Motivation is not my friend right now.
I Hate Diabetes!
To add insult to injury (Literally) I hurt my knee this week. My prior post about Tae-bo still stands, but be sure you're doing all the exercises properly. Apparently I wasn't turning my plant foot out enough, so when I did a bunch of roundhouse kicks on Monday morning, I hurt my left knee. It's all swollen and obviously I can't work out, which is making me feel even more blah! I momentarily thought there might be a connection between my twisted knee and all the highs, but I guess that's pretty unlikely :)
So, thanks for reading my really uplifting blog this morning! These days will be few and far between for me. But I agree with the comments to Kerri's post, we're all allowed to not be strong at times. This disease requires us to "be on" all the time, and no one can do that. I'm just going to take a little time to remember that...
I Hate Diabetes!
I Hate Diabetes!
My frustration right now is due to a week of high blood sugars! I believe the culprit is a vial of lantus that went bad over the weekend, but I continued to use it (unknowingly) until Wednesday night. The vial was getting towards the end and I had it in my purse all weekend since my husband and I were babysitting and away from home for two nights. I guess it got kinda hot and just went bad. (I'm not sure exactly how insulin "goes bad"- if anyone can give a more scientific explanation, I'm all ears!)
Anyway, I've been eating less and giving myself huge doses of humalog for the last three days! I now have two doses of the good Lantus in my system, but I guess it'll just take a couple days for it to fully get back to normal?!
I Hate Diabetes!
Here's an example: after giving myself tons of insulin, I'm 90 mg/dl at dinnertime- YEAH! So I eat a light dinner of 3 oz salmon and some pasta/veggie dish and give myself 4 units of humalog, that's twice what I'd normally need for that dinner. Two hours later I'm 66 mg/dl :) I gave my husband this awesome bouquet of sugar cookies for Valentine's Day and wanted a bite. So, I had half of one (they're pretty big) and 8 oz nonfat milk. Normally, I wouldn't need more insulin for that snack with that low of blood sugar at bedtime, but given these crazy numbers, I gave myself 2 units of humalog and then my normal 28 of the (now good) Lantus. This morning I woke up and tested at 6 a.m. and was 207mg/dl. NO! NO! NO!
The thing that kills me is that I feel terrible! I realize how much better I feel with good blood sugars, it's an AMAZING difference! I'm tired and moody and unfortunately still have a TON of work to do. Motivation is not my friend right now.
I Hate Diabetes!
To add insult to injury (Literally) I hurt my knee this week. My prior post about Tae-bo still stands, but be sure you're doing all the exercises properly. Apparently I wasn't turning my plant foot out enough, so when I did a bunch of roundhouse kicks on Monday morning, I hurt my left knee. It's all swollen and obviously I can't work out, which is making me feel even more blah! I momentarily thought there might be a connection between my twisted knee and all the highs, but I guess that's pretty unlikely :)
So, thanks for reading my really uplifting blog this morning! These days will be few and far between for me. But I agree with the comments to Kerri's post, we're all allowed to not be strong at times. This disease requires us to "be on" all the time, and no one can do that. I'm just going to take a little time to remember that...
I Hate Diabetes!
posted by Kelsey @ 7:28 AM
4 Comments:
At 6:00 AM,
Penny Ratzlaff said…
ME TOO!!!!!!!!
At 6:25 AM,
Major Bedhead said…
The knee injury could cause some high blood sugars, I'd think. I know when Olivia fell off the dock and gashed open her leg, her bgs were high for a day and a half. I just put it down to stress.
At 1:34 PM,
Johnboy said…
well, i can't disagree with you of course. i do find that it takes a day or two to ease off of higher readings for me...and that usually means higher insulin requirements for that period.
as for the exercise, please reference my latest blog entry. i did something similar and am just getting over it!
At 6:31 AM,
Ro said…
I am so with you. I hate diabetes too! I really don't have time for this disease. And I hate that my doctor is always right. Just when I think I have it all figured out, I am reminded that if you don't control IT, it will control YOU.
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