Blood sugar drama

[crowdog66]

My blood sugars have been all over the place since I started monitoring again on March 28th, mostly high. Yesterday after breakfast I clocked in at 22.4, and today after breakfast it was 19.7.

This is not good. If I can't get those numbers under control through diet and exercise, it will be time to go back to my doctor and look at more medication, new medication, or possibly insulin injections.

It's very disturbing to think that I might have deteriorated that much in the course of a year. Then again, I'm not exercising as much as I was a year ago and that might have a lot to do with it.

What's even more worrying is that I have NO symptoms when my blood sugars are in the stratosphere. Well, maybe a bit of excess urination, but that's it. Diabetes would be a much easier disease to monitor and keep on top of if there were obvious and unpleasant side effects, such as people experience with food allergies. As it is, someone can be seriously diabetic for years and not be aware of it, and if you don't get sick from eating too much sugar that's one less incentive not to cheat on your diet. Especially when hot fudge sundaes are so utterly delicious.

... not that I've had one lately. I'm just saying.

Comments

[elaryn.livejournal.com]

It's insidious. I sympathise entirely. Now, low blood sugar has definite symptoms, but it's the high readings that do the damage to the body. *sigh* It verily sucketh.

*HUGS*

[metisbutterfly.livejournal.com]

((hugs)). Don't panic yet. You said you hadn't monitored in a while, right? I would keep a running log of your blood sugar and diarize your food /exercise for two weeks, then check in with the doctor if that doesn't help, or if you are getting symptoms. It hasn't been long since the 28th. It could also be the stress of deadlines or hormones.
I'm not a doctor/nurse of course. I just am familliar as diabetes runs in my family and culture pretty rampantly.

[angry-geologist.livejournal.com]

Have you used the same meter, or have you measured on two different meters?

[crowdog66.livejournal.com]

The same meter.

Good question. :-)