And then it just doesn't make sense sometimes...

Last night my blood wasn't terrible during the day, and before the gym I was at a glorious 6.0 before leaving the house. I set a temp basal of -40% for my workout and had it stretched out for 3 hours, even though I knew it would be reset when I changed my infusion set that night (around 1.5 hours in). I had a pretty good workout and at the grocery store on the way home I was 6.5, which I actually took a picture of because I was so proud. I've been having troubles with my numbers post-gym lately so this was a big moment for me.

Come home, have a snack, switch out the infusion set (yay for not seeing blood drip down my pants!), and tested around 11:30... 13.8. I went the ezbg route and completely ignored the fact that I likely had iob that wasn't taken into consideration due to my site change. About an hour after my correction, I was down to 11.8, so not a huge improvement. I figured it would come down eventually and headed to bed.

I had a ton of trouble sleeping, and tested my blood somewhere around 1:15AM, and I had dropped to 6. I was happy with that and was looking forward to waking up in the morning in the 5's, right where I should be. When I opened my eyes a couple hours later and noticed that it was 3:17 I knew there was only one reason, and I could feel it coming on. I fumbled for my blood checker in the dark (why can't the ping have a light for the test strip) and after taking FIVE tries to draw blood I discovered that I was at an (un)healthy 1.7. As soon as you see the number you feel it a thousand times more, but I headed downstairs to sugar up before heading back to bed and hopefully getting some sleep.

Anyone diabetic understands the feeling of a late night low, and I was up and eating/reading the newspaper until 3:45 AM. I realized I had consumed way more carbs than I should have and attempted to bolus without overbolusing and eventually just went to sleep and hoped for the best.

Morning came with a 9.5 (ugghhh, so not the 5.3 my endo would like me to wake up to) to start my day and it's been wonky from there. I was fine after breakfast, dropping by lunch. After lunch I lingered high until dinner (when I was dropping again) and since then I have been plummeting no matter what I do. I just ate some carrots and pistachios so I'm hoping that stabilizes things a little bit.

It's just so frustrating that what works one day, does absolutely nothing the next day. I have been googling all day to see when Dexcom might be coming to Canada and I haven't been able to find anything - but hopefully soon. In the meantime I am going to play dexcom one day this week and test every 30 minutes during the day and every hour at night.... At least that's my plan for this week, we'll see when it actually happens.

Enough of this crabappleness, let's end this with Holly; because I actually sang 'you are my sunshine' to her tonight and she is a perfect way to brighten a day. Only Jamie is my other (brighter)sunshine, although Holly looks a lot cuter than he would when being completely enthralled with a stuffed octapus missing 2 legs.

Prenatal fun!

So, I've been on Pregvit Folic 5 for way too long now. With the babymaking planning being on, and then pushed back and then on again, it's been a lot of little pink and blue pills. I wasn't really taking them consistently during the fall, because we weren't actually trying at that point, but I've been back on track since about December now. These pills however, are a bitch to take because they come in these stupid little packages that take up way too much room, and they are not fun to get the pills out either. SO, Jamie and I decided to take all 3 months worth out now and separate them so it will be easy to fill up my little weekly pill holder without having to pull out the boxes! YES, this is an exciting post, but I feel that it should have been shared. That is all.

Pills in their little case, time to be extracted.

All done, morning (pink) on the left and night (blue) on the right. Yay for organization!

All done! Prenatals and calcium pills (with vitamin D!)... Fun stuff!

Joys of working out with diabetes

So I've been working out a lot more lately (on and off) and it can be so frustrating with diabetes. Case in point: Tonight I had dinner at 5:30 and gave myself what should have been the perfect amount of insulin. At 7:15 Jamie and I were about to leave for the gym and I am at 3.6 which right off the back means that I will be fighting a low the entire time. I drank a juice box and ate a bunch of crackers, thinking that it would keep me above 6 or 7 for the half an hour I was planning on doing cardio.... No such luck.

I was going to do 1.5 miles and about 2 minutes in, I decided to test, a nice big 2.9 to start off a run, wonderful! I decided to keep going for it, and after about 12 minutes, my blood was starting to move up, I was 3.6. Finished my run, and moved over to the stair climber. Did 10 minutes and felt like I was going to die (my current fitness level might have helped with that) and when I tested afterwards, my blood was down to 3.0 again, once again wonderful.

Moral of the story is: Good luck raising your blood and keeping it elevated when working out!! I had my pump set to a -50% temp basal as well, I probably should have just suspended it!

In other diabetes related news, I had one hell of a gusher last time I changed my infusion set! I was pulling out my old set absent-mindedly and felt something warm and wet on my tummy... Looking down (with the set still attached at the bottom) I discovered that I was gushing blood and it was currently dripping onto my pants. I ran into the bathroom and mopped it up with some kleenex and bled into the sink some more. Pretty nice suprise for 11:30 PM on a Monday! Once it was done bleeding out, I realized it was a lot less blood than it looked like, but still pretty gruesome. I googled what it could mean, and I guess I must have hit a capillary wrong when inserting the set, and when you take it out, it finally blows. I was pretty slow to notice and didn't really apply any pressure to it, so I think I saved myself from a pretty decent bruise by doing it that way. Apparently if you try to stop it from bleeding before it's done, you end up with a nice yellow bruise for a week.

Again, joys of diabetes.

Battery issue again!

And the battery issues continue...   Last week, I went snowboarding with my brother and his girlfriend. Earlier that day, I was at the dentist and when I checked my blood (this was around 3PM) it told me the batteries were running low and to replace soon. Usually I have another weekish before the battery dies, so I didn't think much of it at all. Before snowboarding I decided to bring a spare meter just because I was scared of falling on my ping meter and busting it. At dinner, I pulled out my ping meter to test, and it wouldn't even turn on because of a low battery!! It went completely dead within 4 hours of the first warning, without it being turned on in the meantime! I mean if I was at work, I would have had no meter at all, luckily I had brought that spare for snowboarding. I would have hated to have to drive home, but I hadn't been snowboarding in 6 year, I was not interested in doing it without having a clue what my blood was at. I feel like I complain about my pump too much, and I really don't mean to. I love my pump and what it does for me, it's just that these things are frustrating at times. When it's your health in question, you really want things to be 100% perfect, ALL the time.

Other than that though, I'm still trying to get back into writing down everything I eat and whatnot. It's just sooo time consuming, but I really feel better when I do it. I'll start again this week, maybe. My bloods been pretty good lately though, so that's a plus at least.

Anyways, not a whole lot of anything going on in this post. It snowed this weekend so Jamie and I had fun taking the pups out for nice long walks and throwing snowballs at them. Poor dogs didn't love the salt on the sidewalks, but we rinsed them off, and all was okay. We're supposed to get more snow this week, I really hope we do! I feel like we need at least one BIG dump this year.

Enough for now, hopefully more exciting stuff to post in the coming weeks/ months! :)