When my glucose levels are high, the emotions I feel are far and reaching: from mild despair to total frustration. But the emotion that I have learned to summon to tackle high glucose levels effectively is patience.
There are always a few exceptions, but in general, I find low glucose levels a bit easier to deal with than high glucose levels: just knock back a few glucose tablets and call it done. Of course there are many other frustrations with low glucose such as I may have to lay across the couch for ten minutes to optimize the rate at which perspiration is steaming from my body, but in general, I can move on quickly.
For me, high glucose levels seem to take so much longer to deal with. It takes so, so, so very long for the insulin to work. Sometimes a high glucose can stay around for 6 to 8 hours. And it’s so frustrating!
At first, there’s optimism. It’s just a number, right?!
The number is just a piece of information that I use to manage my diabetes. My approach is to take my correction dose and wait for at least 90 to 120 minutes before I assess if I need another dose or not. I don’t always follow this though. Sometimes, I can see that the carbs I’ve eaten are still being converted to glucose and my levels are still climbing so I might take another dose of insulin to preempt a blood glucose stalemate after the waiting period.
Then there’s waiting.
The first 90 minutes isn’t bad at all. It’s when I check my levels again, and the number isn’t going down, but it has gone up! And sometimes this can happen even if I’ve done a preemptive correction. So then I take another correction dose of insulin and wait another 90 minutes.
Then my irksome-ness becomes frustration.
Sometimes a high glucose can stay around for 6 to 8 hours. Sometimes this 6 to 8 to 10 hours is during the night, and I have to set alarms to keep checking my glucose levels.
This is the point where I struggle with my patience, and I may give into my frustrations with a rage bolus.
From SixUntilMe.com’s Diabetes Terms: A rage bolus is “the act of suffering from a high blood sugar for an extended period or for an unknown reason and the retaliatory insulin dose.”
And then two hours later, I have a rebound low glucose!
So when people talk about keeping glucose levels as close to normal as possible and make it sound like there is a magic strategy I’m like…
Yeah, well, you try to be your own pancreas! Read more about how to reverse, click here <<
Note: Original articles: www.diabetesdaily.com
There are always a few exceptions, but in general, I find low glucose levels a bit easier to deal with than high glucose levels: just knock back a few glucose tablets and call it done. Of course there are many other frustrations with low glucose such as I may have to lay across the couch for ten minutes to optimize the rate at which perspiration is steaming from my body, but in general, I can move on quickly.
For me, high glucose levels seem to take so much longer to deal with. It takes so, so, so very long for the insulin to work. Sometimes a high glucose can stay around for 6 to 8 hours. And it’s so frustrating!
At first, there’s optimism. It’s just a number, right?!
The number is just a piece of information that I use to manage my diabetes. My approach is to take my correction dose and wait for at least 90 to 120 minutes before I assess if I need another dose or not. I don’t always follow this though. Sometimes, I can see that the carbs I’ve eaten are still being converted to glucose and my levels are still climbing so I might take another dose of insulin to preempt a blood glucose stalemate after the waiting period.
Then there’s waiting.
The first 90 minutes isn’t bad at all. It’s when I check my levels again, and the number isn’t going down, but it has gone up! And sometimes this can happen even if I’ve done a preemptive correction. So then I take another correction dose of insulin and wait another 90 minutes.
Then my irksome-ness becomes frustration.
Sometimes a high glucose can stay around for 6 to 8 hours. Sometimes this 6 to 8 to 10 hours is during the night, and I have to set alarms to keep checking my glucose levels.
This is the point where I struggle with my patience, and I may give into my frustrations with a rage bolus.
From SixUntilMe.com’s Diabetes Terms: A rage bolus is “the act of suffering from a high blood sugar for an extended period or for an unknown reason and the retaliatory insulin dose.”
And then two hours later, I have a rebound low glucose!
So when people talk about keeping glucose levels as close to normal as possible and make it sound like there is a magic strategy I’m like…
Yeah, well, you try to be your own pancreas! Read more about how to reverse, click here <<
Note: Original articles: www.diabetesdaily.com
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