Hi all,
The past few days my blood sugar has been acting extremely weird. Was doing very well, lower spikes, quicker recovery etc…
The last few days though I’ve been spiking through the roof from nearly no carbs and am just hovering at a higher level than usual (around 150-140 when typically I’ve
You might be getting sick. I know when my son starts to get sick his blood sugar is high until he feels better. We usually know he is getting sick before he presents symptoms because of his blood sugar
Thanks for the response!
This may be it. I see this on my daughter even before she starts to feel sick. Her blood sugar starts to get more stubborn. I will have to increase basal, adjust correction factor and carb ratio to get her to stay at around 110 between meals. Often her basal need a increase of 80-100%.
It will often stay like this for about 7-10 days before it suddenly gets back to normal.
You may be getting sick. It's common for blood sugar control to go out the window when you're getting a cold, usually a day or two before you have symptoms. Allergies can also cause that. My allergies have been absolute hell this week, personally. But up until several days ago we were still in the 80s outside, and I also bike a lot.
The drinks may also have been an issue, but I would think only if you had some sugary ones. I drink entirely too much, but don't really see spikes from them much.
Personal experience, not a doctor. Just a functional diabetic alcoholic. 😅
Ok I do feel fairly lethargic and have been fighting a cold. This would make much more sense as I’ve had drinks before but it never affected me for the long term. I was honestly fearing that somehow one night had permanently ruined my progress but I guess we will see.
Thanks for the info.
It's definitely the cold you're fighting off. I'm fighting off the flu right now myself. Lowest I've been able to get today is 252 (current glucose). I don't want to tank myself, so I've been doing typical doses of my insulin.... usually I wake up around 90, woke up at 350 today.
It's fine to run high for a bit when sick. It's better than going low.
So you mention a lot of things that have changed, so I think you need to ask yourself a couple of things.
Having a bit of a high after a major change in routine is normal, and unless your highs are dangerous
Yes I was thinking sleep could be a factor but in general it was just that night, nothing too crazy over the holidays and didn’t cheat on any meals.
Was sick with a cold before I went, got better while I was home and now am coming down with something again. Thinking this definitely may be the culprit but will monitor over the next week or so.
Thanks for the info!
Also because I saw in another comment: ONE day will not "un-do" your progress, don't worry. An occasional high, specially a moderate one like you're mentioning here, will not kill you. It's all about the average and what you do most of the time.
My main recommendation is to use everything as information: monitor, identify what's different, how your body reacts to this, and then incorporate that into your plan for future management. I know it's easy to spiral but stress doesn't help at all, and 140-150 are still very good numbers for diabetics. And now in the future you'll know how your body reacts to different things so you can plan accordingly and manage it so you can still do those things you like (hanging out with people, have a drink here and there, and so on) without fearing you're
Lol definitely have the flu, already getting significantly worse.
Once again thanks for the info, always learning new things.