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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Real Life
Tags: Trick-or-Treating
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Olivia is planning on going trick-or-treating tonight. She's 13, so a bit old to be doing it, but she's using her little sister as an excuse. Who am I to knock that? I did the same thing all the way thru high school - hey, someone had to take my sister out. My parents were more than happy to let me do it.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: diabetes mantras night lows treating lows
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I woke up at six this morning to sweaty sheets, shaking and that feeling in my stomach. I checked my blood sugar: 48. I attempted to swing my legs out of bed, but couldn't find the strength. So I grabbed the emergency kit under my bed and downed the glucose tabs. I think I ended up eating eight or nine of them. I wasn't really counting. I was telling myself, "Eat the sugar. Don't pass out." Not at all concerned about the blood sugar after treating the low. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management low blood sugar
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Is that why my A1C jumped the way it did? Is that why I’m not more aggressive with my bolusing? Is that why I sometimes look at a 186 and decide not to correct?
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not the perfect eater and that certainly has had an effect on my A1C, but do you remember how utterly shocked I was at my last endo appointment when Dr. R said 7.5? Well, I do! I could barely focus on anything she said after that because I was so dumbfounded. I even thought about asking her to repeat the test because it just couldn’t be true.
Since that time I’ve made an effort to be more proactive with my bolusing and to bolus prior to eating instead of after. It’s a little unnerving and out of my new comfort zone. It’s hard to get back into the habit of bolusing first.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: overnight checks testing
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When Olivia was first diagnosed, I was told to check her four times a day. That didn't seem very often, but for the first 6 months or so, that's what I did. She was not quite 3 at diagnosis, so she was still going to bed quite early; probably around 7 p.m.. She'd get up at 7 or 8 in the morning. That was 12 hours without a blood sugar check. The thought of doing that now makes my skin crawl.
I started doing overnight checks for two reasons: She'd come to me in the middle of the night, complaining of not feeling well. She was invariably low. Or, when she'd wake up in the morning and would have wet her bed. I knew that she'd been high during the night. I decided to start doing a blood sugar check around midnight. I'd correct if she was over 200 or below 80. Her morning numbers improved immediately. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management low
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When I look back on my blood sugars today all I can think is WTF?
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: high blood sugar site change
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It took us just short of a year, but we finally discovered the right time of day to change Charlie's infusion set.
From the start of our pump training, we were instructed to change his site in the mornings. Before bed was not recommended for fear of low blood sugars.
So, we did as told.
And for months, Charlie's blood sugars were extremely high for a good part of the morning and into the early afternoon on site change days.
Our doctors weren't sure what to make of it. We all theorized that it was the stress of the site change sending him out of the stratosphere. Seemed to be a good enough explanation. He did absolutely flip out with site changes. The hope was that he would eventually not stress so much with the site changes and the blood sugar levels would fall into place.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: severe low blood sugar unexplained lows
Views: 488
My blood sugars have been rocky in the last few days. I haven't made any insulin or exercise changes, but I've been staying fairly "low." And this evening, I hit rock bottom.
Most of my blood sugars have been in the 120's, which I'll take any day of the week. There have been a few 160's and an episode of 200's during my workout on Tuesday, but mostly I'm doing okay. Yet the bad lows are back.
Last night, I had a 56 a few hours before bed. And after juice and crackers, I was only 92. So I ate about 25 grams of LifeSavers and hoped for the best. Only to wake up to a 58. I ate breakfast, did insulin for the extra carbs, and headed to class.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: correction boluses high blood sugars pets
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After the picnic last night, I was extremely tired. It'd been an incredibly long week, we'd just played all kinds of games, and to top it off my blood sugar was low. So I ate some fruit and mixed nuts hoping I wouldn't have to eat anything heavier right before crashing into my bed. But my blood sugar wouldn't come up, it seemed to only be dropping. I drank juice and ate crackers, intently watching the CGMS to tell me when it was rising.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows In the News
Tags: hypoglycemia Lantus lows online article
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Low blood sugars that happen in the middle of the night really suck! You're dead asleep, and then all of the sudden your dreams start getting confusing and weird. You start feeling like you should probably drag yourself out of bed and get something from your sugar stash. You barely have the energy to get up and then once you do you stumble around and nearly black out. You feel confused and you act and look as though you've had WAY too much to drink. Then after you climb back into bed you just sit there for a while and you try to wait patiently while your sugar goes back up or until you feel good enough to fall back asleep.
Well, that's what happened to me last night, and what I tend to experience almost once a week.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Complications Real Life
Tags: fears hypoglycemia night lows seizures
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Lows come in all shapes and sizes. They come with grueling symptoms or no symptoms at all. They come with reason and purpose, and other times with no cause in sight. Sometimes they're short-lived and sometimes they linger for hours. For me, lows come in several forms:
The worst kind, the night low: Night lows for me come sometime between 2am and 6am. Usually it's a reading in the 50's or 40's that wakes me from a deep sleep. I wake with panic in my heart, it pounds in my chest. My body coated in sweat, the sheets damp under me. And an overwhelming weakness that leaves my knees shaking in the darkness. For me, this is the worst low because I have a history of seizures. I'm deathly afraid that one of these lows won't wake me or I won't catch it in time. Glucagon stashed by my bed does nothing to quell the fear. The only peace of mind is having someone close by listening for the sounds of a low.
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