This blog just like log book, life as it is going. So, when I post at one time that I think this is what work, or does not work, then with time my opinion different. This not really opinion, but thinking. With time and more experience this can seems differently.
Once I posted that I take insulin shot when sugar is low. This is really looks non-realistic. If sugar is low , and I take insulin shot then sugar will drop down, right? Looks like it is not the case. I afraid to say and to be wrong. I do have only one person to observe, myself. Still, I am very good observer.
I take insulin shot when sugar is low right before my first bite. Not so high dose, lower then usual. Just to stop hunger. So, when I start to eat I do not have high aggressive appetite as it is usual with low blood sugar. The matter of fact, my appetite is low and I get full and satisfied very very fast. I can replace meal with two apples. I eat fruits every day. Every meal of mine with some veg.
This works very well. It is very difficult at first time because of great fear to get down even more then sugar already dropped. With time this fear off.
Now I have another discovery. This is mine. I did not read it in any books or articles. This is just started, in this time, January 2018. Looks like low sugar started to get higher. I am not sure I would be clear on what I try to say.I even not clear understand what I wish to say, so complicated it now.
Usually we fight high blood sugar. To deal with low blood sugar we take meal. This is only one way to fight low blood sugar. It is easy to assume that then higher dose of insulin to reduce high blood sugar then more danger low sugar would drop. It does not work in this way as I see it so far.
I posted recently that low blood sugar can feel 'low' even when number on meter is within normal ranger. Simple perfect blood sugar, and I feel it 'low'. This was why I could not take dose of insulin as high as I needed to control blood sugar. Year after year in my file doctor post: Diabetes uncontrolled.
Now it looks differently. Now I am able to take as many as 250 units of insulin in one shot. I usually did not do so. 100 units was my limit. If I took higher dose then I would have low sugar. Now it does not the case. I took 250 units in the morning, and returned to bed. No meal. Just 2 bottles of cold coffee. When I finally was able to get up (today I do have very severe pain in my right leg ( I simple cannot move. So I staid in bed, and tried to cope with this severe acute shooting pain) sugar was 62 mg/dl. No low sugar. No hunger. No shake.
I took another shot of insulin 67 units and went to kitchen to get some food, fist meal for today. It was 2:15 pm. Meal was good. We had tickets for Metropolitan Opera today. After midnight I took another 160 units, one corn, and one mug coffee. O, yeas, one apple too. I love apples. So, for today it is 467 units total.
Sometimes I wonder, where insulin go? The dose is high. It is not just one day as I took higher dose of insulin before. Not at all. It is day after day between 400 and 500 units. Some days it is over 500 units. No high numbers. No low numbers. Usually it is 52 mg/dl in the morning. Still, I do not feel it as very low. Not comfortable, yes, but no fear.
I think, it is a new condition I am now. What does it mean? Do I getting better? Am I getting worse? I do not know. I do have headache almost every day. Still, it is nothing new. I do all time have it. Now I take two, and sometimes 4 tablets Excedrin. I used to take up to 20. But it is already past.
Once I posted that I take insulin shot when sugar is low. This is really looks non-realistic. If sugar is low , and I take insulin shot then sugar will drop down, right? Looks like it is not the case. I afraid to say and to be wrong. I do have only one person to observe, myself. Still, I am very good observer.
I take insulin shot when sugar is low right before my first bite. Not so high dose, lower then usual. Just to stop hunger. So, when I start to eat I do not have high aggressive appetite as it is usual with low blood sugar. The matter of fact, my appetite is low and I get full and satisfied very very fast. I can replace meal with two apples. I eat fruits every day. Every meal of mine with some veg.
This works very well. It is very difficult at first time because of great fear to get down even more then sugar already dropped. With time this fear off.
Now I have another discovery. This is mine. I did not read it in any books or articles. This is just started, in this time, January 2018. Looks like low sugar started to get higher. I am not sure I would be clear on what I try to say.I even not clear understand what I wish to say, so complicated it now.
Usually we fight high blood sugar. To deal with low blood sugar we take meal. This is only one way to fight low blood sugar. It is easy to assume that then higher dose of insulin to reduce high blood sugar then more danger low sugar would drop. It does not work in this way as I see it so far.
I posted recently that low blood sugar can feel 'low' even when number on meter is within normal ranger. Simple perfect blood sugar, and I feel it 'low'. This was why I could not take dose of insulin as high as I needed to control blood sugar. Year after year in my file doctor post: Diabetes uncontrolled.
Now it looks differently. Now I am able to take as many as 250 units of insulin in one shot. I usually did not do so. 100 units was my limit. If I took higher dose then I would have low sugar. Now it does not the case. I took 250 units in the morning, and returned to bed. No meal. Just 2 bottles of cold coffee. When I finally was able to get up (today I do have very severe pain in my right leg ( I simple cannot move. So I staid in bed, and tried to cope with this severe acute shooting pain) sugar was 62 mg/dl. No low sugar. No hunger. No shake.
I took another shot of insulin 67 units and went to kitchen to get some food, fist meal for today. It was 2:15 pm. Meal was good. We had tickets for Metropolitan Opera today. After midnight I took another 160 units, one corn, and one mug coffee. O, yeas, one apple too. I love apples. So, for today it is 467 units total.
Sometimes I wonder, where insulin go? The dose is high. It is not just one day as I took higher dose of insulin before. Not at all. It is day after day between 400 and 500 units. Some days it is over 500 units. No high numbers. No low numbers. Usually it is 52 mg/dl in the morning. Still, I do not feel it as very low. Not comfortable, yes, but no fear.
I think, it is a new condition I am now. What does it mean? Do I getting better? Am I getting worse? I do not know. I do have headache almost every day. Still, it is nothing new. I do all time have it. Now I take two, and sometimes 4 tablets Excedrin. I used to take up to 20. But it is already past.
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