Morning Insulin Resistance Suxs

[shiftzor]

I guess I am just frustrating at my spike this fine morning (11.6mmol/L). I just wish there was something I could do about it unfortunately it was made worse by waking 7.4mmol/L and by not walking (getting a lift) to the tube station. I only had 14gs of carbs muesli and milk (not the culprit as I get spikes on soya milk). Might be the home made muesli so I will have to experiment. Could be a liver dump. *grumbles*

[davef]

That's a bummer. Hope things have improved by now.

[shiftzor]

Well its followed up by a low at lunch time caused by over bolusing for the high. Its all fun and games :D.

[davef]

Good to see you can smile about the fun and games. Here's hoping your day evens out for you.

[lorilei]

waking up high is always the start off to a tricky day for me...rollercoaster of highs and lows...mostly this happens when I've had a higher fat meal the night before though...hope your day evened itself out..stress? getting sick? hopefully not

[TommyC1]

Well its followed up by a low at lunch time caused by over bolusing for the high. Its all fun and games :D.

Sometimes it's either laugh of scream , eh?
Yeah I prefer to laugh as well.
Hang in there, you'll sort it out.

Tommy

[TNT]

I had a really bad day on monday - woke up high, forgot my meter at home EEEK - blurry vision around lunchtime, so I was sure I was high, overbolused, went low, but I thought I might still be high because of insulin resistance, so I didn't correct for the low. Stayed low for about 4 hours by my estimation (low as in 20 mg/dL low I think). Got a terrible headache shortly after lunch, and started feeling nautious around 3pm. I made it home, and checked myself, meter read LO, ate somethine, 15 min later read LO, ate more. Almost threw up, got to sleep after consuming an entire bowl of cereal to be on the safe side. Woke up two hours later at 380 mg/dL! Talk about rollercoaster. Evened out around 8 pm, didn't get back into work like I was supposed to. Went to bed, called it one of those days...it happens. Just don't kick yourself after the fact. Do better next time and move on. Lesson learned.

[lorilei]

tnt...i am nauseous just reading your post..that length of time at 20 didn't think was possible..arghh..what a raging hangover that must have been...good attitude though to continue to ride the crazy wave..

[Lindy 4]

I am a type 1 diabetic, diagnosed at 4,5 yrs old, i'm now 36. I find the morning insulin resistance thing is very difficult for me to handle.

I am on NovoRapid and Levemir. Have started injecting Levemir in the morning as well to help but it doesn't seem to be doing anything!!! I used to only inject 6 U Levemir at night, I started injecting 6 U Levemir in the morning as well 4 days ago (I have tried it before but the Novo rep said i should try again) and have not noticed anything... BG still just rises in the morning :( i end up giving myself NovoRapid and wait till BG drops, sometimes i wait till lunch to eat anything and sometimes I have a hypo. Go figure!

Right now i am really hungry and would love to eat something but from 3.4 mmol/l when i woke up it rose to 12.4 mmol/l when i got to work, gave 6 Levemir when i woke up and 4 NovoRapid when i got to the office, tested 1.5 hrs after NovoRapid - 12.2 mmol/l, an hour after that (now) 8.8 mmol/l. Does that mean i can eat? Going to have a slice of wholewheat seeded bread and hope for the best.

On another note, how often do most people test? I test absolute minimum 4 times a day at most hourly. Most days it averages at 10-12 times a day. Is this normal?

I used to feel relatively normal but since changing from my old insulins (Actrapid / Protophane) to the newer insulins (NovoRapid / Levemir) last year I feel that diabetes has taken me hostage :( For the last few years my A1c has been upper 6 / lower 7.

I used to do all sorts of things - white water rafting, hiking, gym. I would be too scared to do any water exercise like the rafting coz i don't get hypo warnings anymore. And at gym i have almost lost consciousness a few too many times since changing insulins. I used to go regularly to keep fit. My mom has urged me to stop. And I have gotten tired of trying.

[SharpTail]

I rarely eat any carbs for breakfast, mostly a protein meal. As well I will bolus the same amount of Humalog as my morning fasting blood sugar. For example if my fasting BS is 7 mmol/l I will bolus 7 units of humalog. Most of the time this will counter my expected rise in blood sugar through the morning and I will end up with a reasonable number by late morning. The protein (eggs, sausage, etc.) satisfies my hunger and there is little carb to contribute to my blood glucose. This strategy has worked for me, but every individual would have to work out their own formula.
Pat