Sometimes it just doesn't work out like you planned?

TvBabe · #1 (**permalink**) 04-16-2006, 03:05 PM

I've noticed something curious lately.....now this usually happens during my breakfast period.

For example, today I had a nice blueberry muffin and some youghert (forgive my spelling) for breakfast. Total of around 63 carbs (my dietician allows me 60 carbs for breakfast). I started out with a blood sugar of 4.9 (88), it is now two hours later and I just tested again and I'm again at 4.9 (88). Yet tomorrow if I eat the same breakfast I will be higher. It's almost like my pancreas decided to wake up a wee bit today and actually work and supplements my bolus.

This happens hit and miss and I only notice it during the breakfast/morning period. It never seems to happen later in the day. Does this happen to anyone else?

trailrunner · #2 (**permalink**) 04-16-2006, 07:33 PM

I so totally understand! I have days where I swear my pancreas is like a poorly working car engine, sometimes it turns over and sometimes it doesn't. There are days where I have a white bread bagel and not move from 120, and others where I eat half of a tuna sandwhich and be 180 an hour later!

valc3 · #3 (**permalink**) 04-16-2006, 09:15 PM

I spent an entire week with perfect numbers. I swore I had a new pancreas .
The following week, the old pancreas returned. Diet, exercise and insulin was the same, but the numbers weren't.

Sometimes I think bg is tied to the phases of the moon. I don't get either.

Harold · #4 (**permalink**) 04-16-2006, 09:30 PM

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Sometimes I think bg is tied to the phases of the moon. I don't get either.

Rzrbks says the moon of Saturn. The way they act though makes me think it's the moons of Uranus.

TvBabe · #5 (**permalink**) 04-16-2006, 11:27 PM

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Rzrbks says the moon of Saturn. The way they act though makes me think it's the moons of Uranus.

LOL how would we know the difference between the moons Harold?

TvBabe · #6 (**permalink**) 04-17-2006, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by TvBabe

For example, today I had a nice blueberry muffin and some youghert (forgive my spelling) for breakfast. Total of around 63 carbs (my dietician allows me 60 carbs for breakfast). I started out with a blood sugar of 4.9 (88), it is now two hours later and I just tested again and I'm again at 4.9 (88).

Ok today, same breakfast, same infusion set, same everything. Started out with a fasting blood sugar of 5.0 (90) and two hours later I'm 6.0 (108). Just got back from my 30 minute hike and I was 3.2 (58) and I didn't even feel it.....sometimes I think I need one of those hypo detecting dogs

seacomp · #7 (**permalink**) 04-17-2006, 02:03 PM

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Originally Posted by TvBabe

Ok today, same breakfast, same infusion set, same everything. Started out with a fasting blood sugar of 5.0 (90) and two hours later I'm 6.0 (108). Just got back from my 30 minute hike and I was 3.2 (58) and I didn't even feel it.....sometimes I think I need one of those hypo detecting dogs

Hey Low, The Hypo Detecting Dog sounds like a movie title.

I really don't see an issue with the results between the two days. Using my numbers, since I don't know yours, 63gm carbs would be 10.5 units and 18 points is about a half unit correction, so the two results are with 5% of each other.
Everything you did is the "same", but not really. One muffin is easily 2, 3 % bigger than another, one bolus set to be the same as another will be different by a % or two. Your initial reading differed by 2 points, and as other threads here have shown meters are just not that accurate.
Coming in within 1.0/18 on two days with that many carbs and all the other variables is about as accurate as you're going to get.
This of course is ignoring any differences in your body between the two days!

Simon · #8 (**permalink**) 04-18-2006, 01:22 AM

I'e put quite a bit of effort into tracking this one down. I came to the conclusion that if I have breakfast within 2 minutes of getting out of bed I was ok but any longer and a live dump would start and inhibit any insulin I injected. I now measure my bg while the porridge is in the mictowave. If it's 6.3 or more I have an extra unit of insulin to cover breakfast.

Cyborg · #9 (**permalink**) 04-18-2006, 05:15 AM

Don't forget about that recent discovery in mice where they think they found the ability to supress the part of the immune system in type 1 diabetic mice from destroying newly regenerated beta cells on the mice's pancreas'. They then saw insulin production from these new beta cells. This was supposedly a major breakthrough because they were not aware that the beta cells were being constantly regenerated by a type 1 diabetics own pancreas. If they correct and they can just find a way to turn off that part of the human immune system that destroys the human pancreas' beta cells, then we are in business! If any of the research is correct about beta cell regeneration, it may explain why temporary honeymoon type periods seem to occur.