jayred's

In yesterdays post, Lantus and late night lows, I discussed lowering my basal dose. I had read an article where a type 1 diabetic endocrinologist proposed taking less insulin for someone my size. I was taking 17 or 18 units of Lantus each morning and he stated that I only needed about 12-15. I have tried my new morning dose of 15 and so far I feel I need a few more "test run" days.

My morning and evening sugars have been great and I haven't seen any of those late-night lows. When testing I have seen numbers like 79, 80, 115, and I was even ok with a 175. However, 3 hours after lunch on both days, I had enormous highs. I have started the narrowing down process and I have pinned it on three different things. One, is both days I had high-carb lunches, which in hindsight is pretty stupid if I really wanted to see what my sugars were doing. I probably should have fasted or paid more attention to what I was eating instead of eating out and having to guess.

The second reason to explain the highs is that I still have a sore throat and some cold and sinus symptoms lingering. Which, during this time of the year seem to never go away for me. We all now what sickness can do to our blood sugar! And my final guess is that I was high due to some stressful stuff that is happening in my life.

I am pretty sure that I can attribute the hyperglycemia to the high-carb lunches. I also can't help but to wonder if maybe I had those highs because I didn't have enough basal on board,..which would negate my whole damn experiment!

Ill try again tomorrow and I'll see how things go with the new dose. I guess in summary, you have to go through some crap sometimes just to get to the other side. It's just that seeing those darn high sugars on my meter just urks the crap out of me.

Thanks for following along with me. -Andy.