Why maintaining good blood glucose levels isn't easy...

[Northerner]

For those of you with unsympathetic healthcare professionals berating you for the occasional hypo or elevated HbA1c, might be worth asking them how many influencing factors they can name - my guess is that it would be around 10, with 4 of them being inaccurate or based on misconceptions.

Douglas Adams must have had us in mind when he said that the answer to the meaning of 'life, the universe and everything' is 42 😱 🙂

 

[mikeyB]

There’s more than that 42, as the Creonistas will attest. Healthcare professionals can berate all they like, they just don’t understand.

 

[Beck S]

That's an interesting table that Northerner - great to see it altogether like that in one place.

 

[Mark T]

Dehydration causes glucose to go up? - it's obvious of course, but I never thought of that one.

 

[Beck S]

Dehydration causes glucose to go up? - it's obvious of course, but I never thought of that one.

My housemate always asks me how much I've drunk that day if my levels are high. I never think of it.

 

[Davein]

There's no sex in it???????????????🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

 

[Mark T]

There's no sex in it???????????????🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂🙂

Ah yes, the ultimate embarrassing hypo generator - and not just for T1's either!

 

[Northerner]

There’s more than that 42, as the Creonistas will attest. Healthcare professionals can berate all they like, they just don’t understand.

I remember a member who had problems with gout, and the diet for that was incompatible with the diet suitable for diabetes

They ought to include maths skills for calculating doses for those of us without pump wizards or smart meters, and rage-bolusing 😱 🙂

 

[Robin]

They could add that 'did I or didn't I?' moment when you can't remember if you injected, and it coincides with your Echo pen failing to display your last dose. Been there, got the Tshirt!

 

[trophywench]

Hot baths, hot saunas, hot tubs, sunbathing and ambient temperature all spring immediately to mind too!

 

[Lisa66]

Plus the wind changing direction and it being a day with a "Y" in it!...well it certainly feels like that sometimes

 

[mikeyB]

And they’ve forgotten the phases of the moon. When the hair starts growing on the palms of my hands....😱

 

[stephknits]

What about the diabetes fairy?

 

[Davein]

Getting a large council tax bill

 

[Martin Canty]

Hmmm.... Altitude? Does living at 7000' make me more or less a diabetic than you flatlanders? 5.5 this morning....

 

[mikeyB]

The only flat land round here is the rugby pitch down the road. And fifty miles down or up the road on the mainland, come to think.

 

[Flower]

I misread altitude as attitude which is also no doubt a factor, upland or lowland.🙄

 

[Cookieones]

Well that chart certainly gives food for tghought (no pun intended) summers on its way & the hot tub will be in use, do I test my bg before or after immersion, & far to embarrassed to ask about sex.................... head down with red face 🙂
Joking aside a very informative chart.

 

[heasandford]

I love DiaTribe which is where this list comes from, although Adam who wrote it does have some unusual food choices due to easy availability of American ingredients. Chia seed porridge for his breakfast, using almond flour etc - but I still don't think I could be a strict as he is - everyone's different, eh?!

 

[Amberzak]

Being pregnant (not that that’s happened to me yet). Other medication (like if someone’s on steroids).

Oh, and the classic, when the carb values listed in a cafe is actually different to the actual carb values. Costa hot chocolate, for example, they actually put more or chocolate in.