Diabetes Can Be A Real Pig Day

[Diabeticliberty]

The clue is in the title and for me it is today. It started at 6.25am this morning when 'dawn syndrone' poked my blood sugars up to 16mmols extremely unexpectedly. No food last night and blood sugars at 4.0mmols just before bobo's. I usually wake around 5.00am and if my blood sugars have started creeping westwards I will take some insulin to bring them back northwards. Today however I slept in and have been playing catch up pretty much all day. I took a chunk of insulin and omitted breakfast completely. By 8.30am and some more insulin my blood sugars were slowly falling. The morning then was a case of picking at food and taking fast acting insulin until at 1.00pm things had normalised enough to eat some lunch. More picking at food and some more injecting this afternoon. Things are now pretty normal and after this evenings piano lesson I should be able to return a regular(ish) routine and have a normal dinner. I periodically have these days and I still hate the bloody things. They take a lot of extra monitoring and a lot of extra management. Some well meaning individual at work dropped the casual bombshell - you need to start looking after yourself. I could very easily have taken the smouldering cigarette out of his hand and burned his eyeball with it 😡

 

[SlowRunner]

Oh dear

 

[SB2015]

We are not robots and that makes things very frustrating on occasions. Tomorrow is another day and I hope that things settle for you.

 

[Annette]

One of those days where you'd swear your insulin had been swopped for a vial of sterile water, huh?
Hope tomorrow is a better day.
(I'd have asked the 'well-meaning' idiot at what point he thought I'd stopped looking after myself, because at that point I'd have died. Maybe untrue but not in the long run and might make them think twice before saying stupid things in the future. Or not. The world makes very good idiots these days...)

 

[Diabeticliberty]

One of those days where you'd swear your insulin had been swopped for a vial of sterile water, huh?

Annette my dear, the very next time another diabetic says to me 'Nobody understands my condition' if you don't mind I am going to quote this line or better still get them to speak to you 🙂 if ever a single line displayed a thorough understanding of diabetes then surely this would be it.


Many thanks for your good wishes,
Geoff 🙂

 

[KookyCat]

Ah I know those days, usually after I've had a few days of swearing blind that someone's made my insulin twice as potent when I'm not looking, then just when I think I need to reduce the doses they substitute it with water....ah the deep joy. Have you noticed it always happens at the worst possible moment too? Now in defence of the colleague, he most probably meant "I'm concerned for you, but since I'm British, I am therefore only able to express emotional support by implying you are in some way at fault to reduce the discomfort of acknowledging actual pain " , see it's sweet when you think of it like that, it's like the verbal equivalent of the hand squeeze, which in turn is the British version of a hug 😉

Hope you're feeling better now [gentle hand squeeze]

 

[khskel]

Yes or you start to doubt that you've actually taken any juice at all

 

[Diabeticliberty]

Ah I know those days, usually after I've had a few days of swearing blind that someone's made my insulin twice as potent when I'm not looking, then just when I think I need to reduce the doses they substitute it with water....ah the deep joy. Have you noticed it always happens at the worst possible moment too? Now in defence of the colleague, he most probably meant "I'm concerned for you, but since I'm British, I am therefore only able to express emotional support by implying you are in some way at fault to reduce the discomfort of acknowledging actual pain " , see it's sweet when you think of it like that, it's like the verbal equivalent of the hand squeeze, which in turn is the British version of a hug 😉

Hope you're feeling better now [gentle hand squeeze]

Thank you for the hand squeeze. I feel like c**p but the hand squeeze makes me feel a little better 🙂

 

[Diabeticliberty]

Yes or you start to doubt that you've actually taken any juice at all

That's the daft part of it. You take more and not much happens and then you start to worry in case it all starts to work at once. A situation that has arisen before now. Sat swigging orange Lucozade by the bowser without a great deal of effect.

 

[trophywench]

BTDTGTTS .....

It's when it's a vial of water day, every day it gets serious. Fortunately when it had been happening for a fortnight I then went in to have my hysterectomy, on a sliding scale for a week or so whilst I threw up constantly every time I tried to swallow even water - so it got sorted ready for once I was home again - total change of insulin.