FRUSTRATED!!
Okay so I just need to vent to the only people I feel would understand... I feel as if diabetes is controlling my ENTIRE life! I'm not controlling it, it's controlling me!! My entire day is revolved around when I am going to eat, what I can't eat, my sugar is high so I have to wait and eat, I have to sit at restaurants and watch my family eat because theres nothing there I can eat or my sugar is too high to eat anything else that day, I must run to the bike or treadmill everytime I eat a friggin carb, I must wake up early so I can fight the dawn phenomenon and eat breakfast as early as possible, I must drool over food that this time last year I woofed down!!! How do you keep tight control without letting diabetes control everything you do!? If I do not do these things then I do not have good blood sugars! I am overwhelmed, angry, and EXHAUSTED! Anyone else feel me?
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Permalink Reply by Brian (bsc) on -
I think one of the hardest things that I am having to learn is that once you start insulin, you can't just throw all the variables into the equation and hope for a good outcome. I have enough trouble figuring out how a meal will affect my blood sugar. But, once I throw exercise into the equation of trying to bolus properly all bets are off. I know that exercise has been a staple of things for you, and exercise is good, but you may just find that exercise after eating is just too variable.
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Permalink Reply by still_young_at_heart on -
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I almost never exercise before two hours post bolus because I would regularly go low when I did. Like you I would then go high as if my insulin got used up before my food hit.
Sometimes you do everything right when treating a low and it still turns out badly. One glucose tab or five sweetharts is a real trooper"s treatment of a low of 59. You really can't be more conservative than that.
Maurie
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