It's safe to say that my blood sugar has been on a roller coaster lately. Actually, it's safer to say I've been at the diabetes theme park over the past, say, two months. Just when I think I have my high blood sugars figured out, I start getting in range again. Which is great, but equally frustrating.

The other day--right around the time I stopped taking Byetta and switched back to Novolog--I noticed myself getting snippy with my family for no reason. I checked the calendar for the day I had last started my period and then counted forward 33 days. Yep, I was just seven days away from that oh-so-happy time. This was also the day I noticed that I seemed to be running lower than I thought I should be. Frankly, I chalked it up to not using Byetta anymore and being able to accurately manage my carb intake with the Novolog.

But there have been occasions--definitely not every cycle--when my sugar decides to drop for several days to a week prior to the start of my period. It's a nice respite, but I certainly pay for it once my period actually starts. Since I don't get these lows prior to each cycle, it can be more difficult to predict what my insulin needs may be. For example, some days it takes my body several slow hours to come down from a high, whereas other days I can go low within an hour of a decent post-meal reading. Perhaps it's difference in being high and being in range. I like to blame it on hormones, though.