Comment by Jim on July 5, 2012 at 6:54pm

Some days really suck. I don't understand why sometimes BS will just hang at one level and will not budge. In my mind I'm saying "God, I'm trying so hard and yet I still fail; this just isn't fair." Hang in there, you're not alone!

Comment by August on July 5, 2012 at 7:26pm

Oh I have been there! Sometimes I feel like, "wow, I got control of this thing...la la la" then I eat a few stupid things and up we go...then it's insulin time. I know the feeling, I really hate this..hang in there though...really no choice.

Comment by brokenpole on July 6, 2012 at 1:33am

Sagwabetes, pain in the butt ain't it. If there is one thing I truly dislike about our friend diabetes is the shear randomness of it. What works one day won't work the next. What puts you into orbit one day will drop you BG like a rock the next. There are just too many variables. Have a cold, stress at work, stress for a big exam in school, boss on your case about something, wife...husband...or significant other yelling at you. All adds into the equation and not the same every time.

But like August said, we really have no choice.

Hang in there girl. Just remember that you can do it!!

In the meantime, rant away. We all do.

Comment by acidrock23 on July 6, 2012 at 4:56am

I've noted that if I run off a string of flat days it seems to "turn up" the DP on the day after whatever the final day is? I don't keep track of stuff in enough detail to know for sure if there might be some correlation with "woo, look at my flat line(s), eat some junk food" celebrations going on in there but it seems to happen pretty regularly. Also, re the rebounds, while honey peanut butter toast sounds tasty and probably what I'll have for dinner tonight, if I ate that at 70, I'd probably bolus some for the carbs as it's probably about 2x what I'd need? I've kind of gotten to where a lot of times, I'm having 3-6 jelly beans, instead of "15G" of carbs. A lot of the time, that will get me out of it and it doesn't go flying up so I can avoid more fixing on the back end?

Comment by Scott Wilkins on July 6, 2012 at 6:32am

Keep in mind that 70 is actually quite perfect for BG. Sure, on the low end, but still not really hypo. If anything I would have only eaten a mint.

Also, sounds like you might be a good canidate for a constant BG monitor.

Best advise I've have for diabetes management = boredom. Seriously, get into a very solid very boring eating, workout and sleeping habit. Same thing every day, after day, after day, after.... No, I'm not that good at it either :)

Comment by gpickney on July 6, 2012 at 8:29am

So hard to have consistent control.I agree with you Scott. Trying to stick with the same routine day in and day out. But sometimes life is not always that simple, and you may be on holidays or at work or.. and you just can't keep your routine. However if you keep it 80% of the time,and do your best the other 20% of the time, guess that's better than nothing

Comment by Randy on July 6, 2012 at 10:24am

All so true. Normal BG is 70 to 100 and is the ideal goal. But, we all know there are too any variables to reach 100% no matter what your goal is. Managing anything is the art of understanding and planning for the variables. Control everything you can and plan for the problems. If you don't do this you will find yourself reacting and will probably never get ahead in the game.If you think about it this is true in anything; finances, work, diet, etc. If you hit the 80:20 mark, well, that's pretty much how life works. If you do better than that, then figure out why and try to keep it going.

Comment by Sagwabetes on July 6, 2012 at 10:15pm

70 is not an ok or comfortable number for me to hang out at right now. Maybe someday. But coming from years of 11+ A1Cs, I'm most comfortable in the 130-180 range.

Comment by karaoke judy on July 8, 2012 at 2:28pm

yup one day u cant get rid of high numbers like the other day couple days i kept waking up with 140 i was so frusterated because by days end it climbed to 225 haD TO take to take 20 units of insulin but then today i was 97 and its only went to 117 since two meals of chicken and broccoli and no meds today im toltaly stunned never been that good in ten yrs tomorrow might suck again idk just hang in there every day i feel fantastik i used to have numbers in the 3 to 500s three months ago

Comment by Scott Wilkins on July 8, 2012 at 3:42pm

I hear you on the 130-180 range. Some docs even recommend that range for some diabetics. Personally, I try to keep mine in the 100-150 range. Though my Omnipod is set to 80-180 as a good range. Gotta have some wiggle room. One of the hardest things I find to deal with is when my BG is going down. I might still be at 180, but start to feel as if I'm 80 instead. It's a normal thing, as I understand from my Doc, that you might feel a low with dropping BG even though you aren't low. So, testing is good.

Something someone reminded me of here. Testing is good, especially like you are doing. But keep in mind the full control requirements. Sometimes testing a lot leads to over-control and making changes too often, which lead to a bad yo-yo effect.

Good Luck! :)

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