Quick rant

[kid_fears99]

I swear sometimes this disease makes no sense. So I'm making a HUGE effort to get my levels under control and it's been pretty successful (in 4 weeks my meter average has gone from near 250 to 188!). I'm trying to get my insulin-carb ratio down, so I've been eating the same thing for the past few days, for breakfast, lunch, and dinner. The results have been great. But then tonight, I eat the exact same dinner I've eaten the past two nights, and I take the same amount of insulin. but whereas my bedtime levels were at 120 last night, tonight they're at 283?!?!? I'm in the middle of finals, so my daytime activity has been the exact same (i.e. sitting at a desk studying for 15 hours a day). What other factors could lead to such a huge discrepancy?

[psilocybin]

what makes it interesting...but a pain at the same time... you never know whats going to happen next lol. man that line reminds me of forest gump

[poodlebone]

Were you stressing any more tonight than before, over finals or anything else? Did you inject your Humalog somewhere you normally don't, or maybe inject into an area you might have used too much?

It's frustrating and after 19 years, it still drives me crazy!

[psilocybin]

Were you stressing any more tonight than before, over finals or anything else? Did you inject your Humalog somewhere you normally don't, or maybe inject into an area you might have used too much?

It's frustrating and after 19 years, it still drives me crazy!

some things that happen are unexplainable. there is not a reasonable explaination for everything that happens with this disease

[Gangrel]

yup, just roll with it.

I've had lows, eaten chocolate bars and drunk (drank?) a can of coke, and tested 30 minutes later only to find my sugar is just about the same as before........

I think sometimes the body just goes haywire. Much like a bull rider, grab on, and go for the ride.

[sbuff28@charter]

When i look at diabetes i don't look at it as a whole bunch of unexplainable things. I treat it more as a math equation with just too many variables to account for. Not only that but its hard to figure out what variables are changing your bs from day to day. I bet if you think long and hard about it there is some reason (dehydration, stress, activity levels,) and many other things that COULD have effected your BS that drasctily. Don't look at it and say WTF, that makes no sense, Try and find an explaination for those jumps, there has to be one, even if you don't know for sure what made the Diffrence in the tests, there IS something different you did to alter it that much. Be a dectective and eliminate as many of those variables (or account for them) as you can.

[kidvid]

You may think about your stress levels as someone else mentioned. I think of myself as a really calm, cool and collected guy, but stress can whack my numbers without any discernable symptoms. I think everything is under control at the time, but after a week or so I think back and reflect on my life at the time and attribute the happenings then to my high BG levels.

Good Luck!

Joe

[Aftiel]

Stress affects levels, exercise affects it. Getting a cold will effect it.

non-diabetics are on auto-pilot - their pancreas adjusts on the fly. With us, we have to adjust manually.

Even if you sat in one place all day, weighed your food, and did nothing but test and adjust every 5 minutes, your BG would still fluctuate from day to day.

Don't stress about levels - what we work for is having a good "average" over time. That doesnt mean NEVER going high or low.

I totally understand what you are saying.

- Aftiel

[Erin]

When i look at diabetes i don't look at it as a whole bunch of unexplainable things. I treat it more as a math equation with just too many variables to account for. Don't look at it and say WTF, that makes no sense, Try and find an explaination for those jumps, there has to be one, even if you don't know for sure what made the Diffrence in the tests, there IS something different you did to alter it that much. Be a dectective and eliminate as many of those variables (or account for them) as you can.

I used to be like that (or well, my mom was anyway). Then we realized that I was going to have to deal with this disease day in and day out for the rest of my life, and while there may be a way to explain every fluke high or low, it just isn't worth the time or mental energy. We began to look at it globally, and only put on the detective's hat when we noticed a *pattern* of highs or lows.

The fact of the disease is you are going to have a fluke high or low with no *apparent* cause every now and again. Unless those flukes are correlated in some way (they always happen between dinner and bed, for example) you're not going to be able to explain and prevent them.

It is better for your mental well being to just shrug and roll with the random highs and lows... blame the moon, blame the tide, blame the rings of saturn, just correct, and go on with your business.

[sbuff28@charter]

The results have been great. But then tonight, I eat the exact same dinner I've eaten the past two nights, and I take the same amount of insulin. but whereas my bedtime levels were at 120 last night, tonight they're at 283?!?!?


160 points is an aweful lot of points for any diabetic to vary with food and insulin kept constant. I don't think you can blame that on the moon. otherwise we'd all be in hypo or hyper land and not able to keep 80-120.

[kgm0612]

This happens to me almost every single morning. I basically eat the same thing for breakfast every day........either 2 pieces of light wheat toast or a Thomas's light english muffin......and my readings are either really close to the day before, or they are WAY off. I give up trying to figure this disease out. LOL

Karen

[Erin]

This happens to me almost every single morning. I basically eat the same thing for breakfast every day........either 2 pieces of light wheat toast or a Thomas's light english muffin......and my readings are either really close to the day before, or they are WAY off. I give up trying to figure this disease out. LOL

Karen

If it happens EVERY morning, it is no longer a fluke. It is something you might want to investigate further. Is the difference related to which you eat (the english muffin or the toast) or if you have coffee, or what time you get up, or what you did the night before? This is a conundrum worth investigating, as it is a pattern. (some of these problems are hard nuts to crack, but if you keep trying you'll eventually crack it)

Sbuff... with all due respect, I've been doing this a LOT longer than you. Yes, 160 points is a lot to be off, but in my opinion being off, even drastically off, ONCE isn't worth the bother of figuring out what happened. Trying to know what causes every reading is the fast track to diabetes burn out. Sometimes things just don't work the way they are supposed to work. If 95% of the time you are either in your target range, or out of range and you know why you're out of it, it really isn't worth it to beat yourself up about the other 5% of the time.

[Gangrel]

Exactly. If you start worrying, you're just going to excaberate the problem... (that's today word of the day kids! Look it up! ;))

I won't say it again since you'll all get sick of me, but Erin is right. If it happens once, don't worry about it. If it's consistent, THEN start thinking about it.

[kid_fears99]

Just an update on my post from last night - I think it was stress that caused the spike in my BGLs. I had an exam today so I was super nervous/stressed out this morning. Right before the test, without any food or drink or anything, my levels spiked from 140 to 297. Then, sure enough, I tested mid-way through it when I had calmed down - they were 96. So weird what stress can do to you. Thanks for the input everyone

[rzrbks]

What other factors could lead to such a huge discrepancy?

Perhaps it's time for me to come out of the closet:

Deus and I have spend a little time visiting and we know

The Truth

[rzrbks]

Answer:

The phases of the Moons of Saturn.


Edit: >>>>>>>this is perfect that the secnd post comes on the next page<<<<<<<<<<

Much like the much vaunted HitchHiker's Guide Answer


The Ultimate Answer
According to the Hitchhiker's Guide, researchers from a pan-dimensional, hyper-intelligent race of beings, construct Deep Thought, the second greatest computer of all time and space, to calculate the Ultimate Answer to Life, the Universe, and Everything. After seven and a half million years of pondering the question, Deep Thought provides the answer: "forty-two."

"Forty-two!" yelled Loonquawl. "Is that all you've got to show for seven and a half million years' work?"
"I checked it very thoroughly," said the computer, "and that quite definitely is the answer. I think the problem, to be quite honest with you, is that you've never actually known what the question is."