A Streak of Morning High Blood Sugars - I DON"T GET IT.

Every morning since Monday I've woken up with a high blood sugar and I have no clue as to why. 
It's weird, it's annoying and honestly, I JUST DON'T GET IT.
I've switched infusion sites, done correction boluses and still, I wake up with a blood sugar in the mid to high two hundreds. 

I don't like starting my day with a high blood sugar (or a low blood sugar for that matter,) it pisses me off. 
And don't even get me started on the whole "It feels like I'm walking through JELLO because I woke up with a high blood sugar," thing.
I've been plowing through the week at gangbusters speed and I haven't let it affect my work.  
Because that's what PWDs do. We plough through the muck and shitstorm of curve balls that diabetes throws our way because we must. Sometimes we knock them out of the park, other times they stick around and taunt us from the sidelines. 
And by lunchtime my blood sugars are back to normal, and by the end of the work day my blood sugars are downright text book, but I'm left feeling zonked.
At first I thought it was just a string of bitchy blood sugars - We've all dealt with diabetes being bitchy.... but now I think it's more  - As in: Time to change my overnight basal rates. 

My questions to you guys: 

1. Can ones basal rate requirements change in the blink of an eye and out of the blue sans pregnancy or puberty?  
And YES, I totally know that basal rates change - I get that - But this just seems freaking weird.

2. Have any of you out in the D blogosphere noticed a daily and or nightly trend in either direction re: your blood sugars that seemed to come out of nowhere - And did the trend stick? 

3. Aslo: I AM TOTALLY GIVING DIABETES THE FINGER RIGHT NOW - WITH BOTH HANDS. 

Book Giveaway Winners & Endo Appointment Takeaways

First off: The 2 winners of the Diabetesaliciousness Joe Soloweijczyk's 'A Type 1 Diabetes Guide To The Universe,' book giveaway are Becky and Katy. 

CONGRATS ladies! Please contact me at kellykunik(at)gmail.com with your contact info - As in email addresses. 

Secondly: Like so many in the Diabetes Online Community, yesterday was my endo appointment. Seriously, so many people were at their end's office yesterday - At least according to Facebook!  

And it wasn't bad - but I wasn't thrilled with my results.  

The good news: My labs - At least for the most part, were good - Cholesterol, liver, kidneys, etc were all normal - YAY. So was my blood pressure.

#waitingwithdiabetes
Yeserday's Endo Appt - It was OK - But I can do better~

The stuff I need to work on: 

My A1C was 7.5. 

Not terrible but not great. I can do better. I have to do better. 

So, how am I going to do better? 

Dr J and I decided that the best course of action would be to revisit basal rate testing. 

Do I like basal rate testing? No I do not. But that doesn't matter. I need to do it, so I'm going to.

I start basal rate testing for a couple days at the beginning of April. I'll scan and email the results to Dr.J and & also set up a time to meet with Cheryl, the CDE for a tuneup. 

D isn't just for diabetes: 

Like much of the east coast who have been battered by this crazy winter, my labs showed that my vitamin D levels are low. That sort of scared me. But as always, Dr. J talked me off the ledge. "Kelly, this is new and I really think it's because of this terrible winter, the lack of sun, the lack of you being outside etc. Calm down, we can fix this by you taking 1000 mgs of D daily."

SO...that's what I'm going to do.

Like I said, I wasn't thrilled with my results, but I also know: 

1. It could be worse

2. Change is good, change can be a pain in the ass, change can be scary and change is necessary - In life and life with diabetes. 

3. I'm not going to freak out about basal rate testing or the vitamin D. 

Instead, I'm going to get my daily dose of vitamin D on and look at my basal rate testing as a series of diabetes fact finding missions, the results of which will help me reset my Diabetes GPS coordinates and get me on the right track to a new and even more diabetesalicious Kelly~ 

It's easier and much more fun to approach basal rate testing that way - At least I think it is. :) 

“Looks Like I Picked The Wrong Week To Stop Sniffing Glue.”

“Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue.” Steve McCroskey - Airplane

Every single time I think about (or attempt to start) basal testing, that’s the line that goes through my head- cause I'm weird like that. Sidebar: I LOVE the movie AIRPLANE!

But seriously- it looks like I picked the wrong week to start basal testing.

As of late, my numbers have been all over the place. I’ve been running low after dinner straight on towards midnight and waking up with high numbers the past 3 days.

The Trend graph on my borrowed CGM looks like the letter M, except of course when it looks like the letter W.

I’m not used to this crap- my a1cs are normally around 6.8. Is this what 6.8 looks like?

I don’t bloody think so!

I’m getting frustrated for several reasons, all of them valid.

1. I don’t like the thought of not eating and I don’t like the thought of being still.
2. Lets face it, the morning high numbers are not the best way to kick start my day folks.
3. There’s a chance that I might be fighting off an infection that’s causing these highs (I have to get a molar pulled and my sinuses are still clogged,) and there’s also a good chance that I’m just making excuses for said blood sugar highs.
4. Basal testing during the Easter weeks makes it difficult to enjoy Sunday’s carrot cake.
5. I have a meeting with Gary next week to discuss my basal rates and have to turn in my borrowed cgm, so the whole window of testing my basal rates is running out and I need to take my “big girl” pill and get on with it. So I am.

Today’s basal test will commence at 1pm and last until 10pm. No eating, lots of blood sugar testing, and of course, uber amounts of bitching on my end, which should make work veeerrrryyy interesting~

“We have clearance Clarence.” Proceed with the basal testing- and don't call me Shirley!

War is hell - so is basal testing…

Basal Testing PSYCH-OUT

So I was all set this morning to fast- I really was. I'd psyched myself out on Sunday that from 9 a.m until 5p.m. today, I was going to FINALLY start my basal testing and fast the day away! Just so I'm 100% clear- I'm not a fan of fasting, AT ALL. But fan or not, it needs to be done.

Sundays blood sugars were great, except for the after dinner lows. For some reason my blood sugars kept going south after dinner and no matter how much I treated, my blood sugar was showing that it was still under 80. I tested and tested again- fearing that my meter my be off the mark- and yes, the numbers fluctuated between 100 and 75. The number on my borrowed CGM, (on loan to me from Gary Scheiner, a friend and CDE who is helping me w/my basal rates) was reporting a number somewhere in between - I didn't know what number to go with! FDA- please take note of the meter numbers!

I was tired, I had work in the morning and I wanted to catch some ZZZZs.

Finally at 11:30 p.m, I decided to lower my midnight basal rate and had a few teaspoons of one of my favorite guilty pleasures, peanut butter and jam on a spoon.

Cut to 6:45 am this morning- when I awoke too my borrowed CGM buzzing to tell me that my blood sugar 279 while my meter reported that I was 291.

I did a bolus correction for the 291 and 15 grams of carbs because coffee makes my numbers go north- and high bg or not, this Diazon was not skimping on her morning coffee!

Anyway, my basal testing is pushed back yet another day- Can you say PSYCH-OUT?