Every Single Time
Monday, April 15, 2013 at 12:19PM My bg’s have been pretty good lately. Especially my fasting bg’s. I have been waking up under 120 every day for a good long while.
Go overnight basal rates! WOO HOO
And also maximum respect to my correction bolus amount. Good job!
My post prandial bg’s are not so great but the more time I leave between bolus to grubbing the better. It makes for less corrections which is always nice.
So why is it that EVERY TIME I am scheduled to have my A1C and other lab work done, EVERY TIME, I have my highest blood sugars in months the day before.
My diet doesn’t change so that’s not it. I just bolus incorrectly, forget to bolus all together, have a tubing issue with my pump, or in this case totally miscalculate my carb intake.
536.
That was the number I had last night before I started my fasting for the draw this morning.
I woke at 119.
I know an A1C reflects your bg average of three months so it sucks that my average just got destroyed but some lame once in a great while screw up.
The only solution I can come up with is spontaneous blood tests. Maybe I can trick myself into not jinxing my quarterly draws.
Does this happen to you? I feel like an idiot because I honestly do this EVERY TIME!
Reader Comments (3)
I won't say it happens every time, but yeah, I remember waking up in the middle of the night with a sky-high BG, and a suspect - make that a definite - bad infusion site. After loading up on correction insulin, I was a comfortable 98 just before my fasting blood-draw, and a dizzying 72 by the time breakfast hit my mouth.
What can I say? S--- happens.
This just happened to me! Although, I attribute most of the rise in A1c to starting on a pump 4 weeks prior to lab test. Still, it's so frustrating when all the other time prior you were doing so well! P.S. I LOL'd at the shooting your foot picture. =)
Yup, it absolutely happens to me. Usually it's my fasting number, which can be perfect for a month straight but the morning I need to go for my fasting draw I'll wake up in the high 200s. I just don't get it. I think it's another way diabetes likes to mess with us. Grrrrrr.