body versus readings

[SVanderkolff]

The last couple of days I have been noticing that what I am feeling and what the tester says are not matching up. For example right now I feel tingling in my face, really sluggish and a bit shaky. Which would lead me to believe that I was getting low yet when I take the test I come in at 6.4.
Has anybody else had this problem, I thought I was going to be able to cut back on the testing since I was starting to figure out what it felt like but if I am this unreliable then maybe not.

Thanks for the help.
Steve

[duck]

The sensation you are suffering through is typical if you have been running high averages for a while...What happens is that your body gets used to being high, and then when you are closer to normal, that is a relative low to what you had been. I liken it to withdrawal symptoms that drug addicts suffer through, but not as serious. When you start to get under better control, you will begin to feel normal when you are "normal".

Did that make any sense?

[SVanderkolff]

Duck
Makes sense but I haven't been running high ?????
14 day average 6.3
30 day average 6.9

Steve

[duck]

Hmmmmmmm...Let me think about this one. Have you been exercising more lately (I recall you have recently been laid up)?

Anyone else have thought on this one?

[SVanderkolff]

Yes I am excercising more, mostly out on the bike with my 3 yr old on the back. That is usually in the evening though.

As my weight goes down, do the meds take effect quicker, in other words could I be feeling rapid transitions from post meal to normallized BS levels. Just a thought.

Steve

[mg_2204]

Hello! I do experience the same thing from time to time. And I haven't been running high lately. My levels are quite steady, ranging from 5.5 to 7.5. Before being on meds, I could be anywhere between 8 and 18! I am a lot more active physically, I eat well, etc, but I still feel shaky sometimes at 6.3, 6.4. Frustrating! Other days I'll feel absolutely great, test and whoa! 5.1. But another day, 5.1 will give me a massive headache, problems concentrating and I will feel shaky. Why??!? Your guess is as good as mine.

I did notice that since being on meds, I can actually feel the slightest increase or decrease in BG. I'm much more sensitive to BG's fluctuation. A good thing perhaps?

Take good care!

[archimeech]

I have found throughout my 21 years as a diabetic that a lot of factors in life can give you false "good" and "bad" feelings. Don't test less often, test just as much and if you're questioning it, test again, and again, and again......

[kimbo]

The same happens to me (new t2) i assumed it was because i was tired after being on the go all day,but i am not experienced enough to recognise a pattern.

[Linda57]

I do agree with whats been said..............its very confusing :mad:

Linda

[Peter Lee]

Yes I am excercising more, mostly out on the bike with my 3 yr old on the back. That is usually in the evening though.

As my weight goes down, do the meds take effect quicker, in other words could I be feeling rapid transitions from post meal to normallized BS levels. Just a thought.

Steve
Spot on! According to the diabetes consultant I go to, as the weight comes down (particularly from the midrif, which is the diabetes active region) meds act faster and if you are lucky you can lose enough to enable you to come off meds altogether and rely on diet, weight control and exercise. In my case he said that as the weight comes down I might get hypos from the Gliclazide and that I should reduce it if that happens.

It seems that this sort of fat is diabetically active and influences the liver and can also deposit fat on the liver - fun isn't it? :1eye:

[twocute64001]

after 43+ years with diabetes I knew the way my body reacted to highs and lows, but this past year something has changed. I no longer get shaky or hot or hungry when low unless its dangerously low (less than 30)

Anyone else who can not "feel" lows

[duck]

(Disclaimer: I'm Type 1) I still feel lows, but nowadays they have to be real low before I feel impaired. Lately, I feel low in the low 60's, but I find that I can still think, read, etc., unlike 5 years or more ago when if I was in the 80's I found the ability to read allusive.

(I don't drive at all when I am low, though, EVER)

[twocute64001]

Actually about the time this started was also about the time I went from my mm 507C to the cozmo. Could the pump have anything to do with it?