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04-23-2008, 02:31 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Southern USA
Posts: 1,421
| | | What's your comfort zone for BG?
I find that I can't seem to handle being in the 80's....even if my BG is stable. I have hypo symptoms, or I just don't feel quite right.
Yet, I can live in the 90's all day long. I've finally come to the place of realizing that my comfort zone is between 95-110.
Just curious as to how it is with others.
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Incorrectly dx'ed type 2 7/00 
Correctly dx'ed type 1 5/01
MDI
Lantus 2x daily & Humalog
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04-23-2008, 02:48 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: North Texas
Posts: 1,425
| | | Hi Holly,
Mine is 75-90. I feel the absolute best (most energetic) at 75-80. I don't feel bad until I am below 50. Not always a good thing, but at least I don't get those awful Lantus lows anymore.
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04-23-2008, 03:09 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: UK
Posts: 356
| | 5.0mmol/L to 6.9mmol/L (90mg/dl to 126mg/dl). When I am above or below I start to get symptoms, I am young though so this is the most sensitive to bg I am ever going to be. I have recently started to feel drops in my bg like a sudden movement, pins and needles like sensations in my feet and my heart beating when high or low. Its all fun and games  .
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A1c 8.1 - 23rd of May 2007 
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04-23-2008, 03:10 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: NJ
Posts: 483
| | | I shoot for 80 to 100. I can function normally down to about 70 and have stayed there for many hours. A lot depends on if I am at 70 with just basal or heading down with leftover bolus.
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04-23-2008, 03:18 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Posts: 1,607
| | | I feel most comfortable when BG is 5-7mmol/l (90-126mg/dl). I correct anything outside the the 4-8mmol/l (72-144mg/dl) range.
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Type1 since 1977
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04-23-2008, 03:29 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Kent, WA USA
Posts: 2,441
| | | I like being 80-110. I get sx of lows when I'm in the 50s, but usually not until the low 50s. |
04-23-2008, 04:00 PM
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I am a: Type 2 | | Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: South Dakota
Posts: 470
| | | My comfort zone is 70 to 90
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30 day ave glucose 90, Standard Deviation 13
5/12/08 A1c 4.9 2/18/08 A1c 4.9 11/2007 A1c 5.3 8/2007 A1c 5.5 6/2007 A1c 5.7
3/2007 A1c 6.9 12/2006, A1c 7.8 9/2006, A1c 8.5 6/2006 A1c 8.7 |
04-23-2008, 04:06 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Aug 2007 Location: Royal Oak, Michigan
Posts: 605
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Originally Posted by grace girl  I find that I can't seem to handle being in the 80's....even if my BG is stable. I have hypo symptoms, or I just don't feel quite right.
Yet, I can live in the 90's all day long. I've finally come to the place of realizing that my comfort zone is between 95-110.
Just curious as to how it is with others. | I'm the same way. I don't like being below that range. If I could stay at 100 all day, I would be extremely happy. I spent about 2 hours today around 75 and finally ate something because I just couldn't stand the low feeling any longer.
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MM 722 and CGMS
Symlin (when I feel like it)
Vitrectomy on the right 5/07 and left 7/07
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04-23-2008, 04:10 PM
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I am a: Type 1.5 | | Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: France
Posts: 610
| | Jan B said
'' Mine is 75-90. I feel the absolute best (most energetic) at 75-80. I don't feel bad until I am below 50 '' 
I feel exactly the same. A nurse said the other day that she thought I had a psychological fear of higher BS. Shes probably right. |
04-23-2008, 04:32 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Portsmouth UK
Posts: 1,484
| | | i feel pretty ok between 4.5 up to 9. over that and i start feeling drowsy and fatigued.
Sometimes at around 4.5 i can start feeling a hypo coming on, sometimes it's a little lower at just under 4.
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04-23-2008, 04:35 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Sep 2006 Location: Dallas, TX
Posts: 289
| | | I like it between 100-140. ANything lower and I get hungry, but I can take it up to about 170. Whenever I try to correct, it either goes too low or doesn't work at all.
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04-23-2008, 04:36 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Jan 2008 Location: Kansas, US
Posts: 513
| | | I like 80 to 100. However, in an effort to avoid hypos, I prefer staying in the 90s.
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DXed 2007/04 : presented with advanced-stage DKA, A1c of 12.9%, and BMI of 21.3 kg/m^2
Post-DX A1c : 5.2% @ 2008/04; 5.3% @ 2007/12; 5.3% @ 2007/08
current BMI : 25.4 (84kg on 182cm); want to get back to 23-24
basal : Levemir; 18U @ 0800, 18U @ 2200 (have also used Lantus)
bolus : 1:15 I:C ratio; varying mix of Novolog, Novolin-R, Novolin-N (have also used Humalog, Humulin-R, and Humulin-N)
not a low-CHO eater... not even close!
last updated 2008/05/09
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04-23-2008, 05:14 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Florida
Posts: 61
| | Currently I love to be in the 90s, I don't even mind the high eighties, but the 70s make me start to worry as I don't seem to ever hover at a number...always moving up and down...and being responsible for two little kids I eat 4 carbs if I see a number in the 70s. Now don't get me wrong, I see lots of 110s and 120s and although I would like to correct with the occasional 130, I am worried my .5 unit pen would send me much to low if I tried to correct that, so I just hop on the treadmill
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04-23-2008, 09:25 PM
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| | | 90 to 120 here; and yesterday I actually managed to stay in those parameeters all day, yay me! Today not so good. I am still trying to get my numbers down; still working out what foods don't agree with me, and sometimes I just don't get my bolus for meals right at all. That is the range I feel best, though. I can go as low as 70 (sometimes) before I start to feel a hypo but other times I feel crummy at 80. On the other end of the scale, over 180 and my energy level tanks.
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Type2, diagnosed 2004
Metformin 2000mg
Glipizide 10mg
Lantus at night
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04-23-2008, 10:04 PM
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I am a: Type 1 | | Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Arizona
Posts: 20
| | well don't feel bad..i feel too low when im even in the 100's!! yeah its bad i know! ive been too high for too long now and its only going to cause me MORE complications in the future..cant wait |
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