Diabetes365 day 2 Tuesday, October 9, 2007
Yesterday was so good, it was hard to start my day off with a value like this. Note the attached cable is used to connect my blood glucose meter with my Dexcom continuous glucose monitor.
For some reason I was battling a low blood sugar from about 3 AM. I took two small amounts of carbohydrates during the early hours to try and get my blood sugar to come up. But I still ended up with a value of 59 mg/dL before breakfast.
This means I can't take Symlin so my after breakfast blood sugar readings will be higher. It also means that I can't drive until I'm sure my blood sugars are above 100 mg/dL. This is the lowest value at which I like to drive.
Remember there is no cure for diabetes. Those of us with Type 1 diabetes use insulin (and sometimes Symlin) to try and keep our blood glucose values within a reasonable range. This is really an imperfect approach.
This is the second photo in my diabetes365 series. You can find photos from others taking part in the diabetes365 photo project on flickr.
Labels: diabetes, diabetes365, low
posted by Bernard @ 7:17 PM
1 Comments:
ha! I keep my cable on my meter all the time when I'm using the dex. Sorry about the low BG's especially at night. That really wipes me out the next day. In fact I woke up to a not-so-different number this morning at 4:20 AM. I think I'd been low for awhile; I'm between sensors on the dex and had some funky dreams before waking up.
I think when type 1's are pregnant they try to keep their BG's from 60-100 or something insane like that.
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