11/13/11 - Frustrated!

I don't know exactly how this blog will work, but it will be a work in progress I guess.

The past week has really put me in a spin. I found that it didn't really matter what I did with my medicines, I would always wake up around the same number. My sugars would test around 250 with or without. I even had one day that I woke up with my sugars at 312 and that was WITH my medicine. I had also made sure that I ate ok the night before.

Yesterday I tested a 492 and so I took 50 units of short acting insulin and two hours later was only down to 444. I woke up at 4am with a splitting headache and tested at 248.

Yesterday I read online that a dr in Colorado looks at diabetes and insulin like a circuit breaker. When there is too much insulin the receptors will fail, just as a circuit breaker will fail when there is too much electricity. I have been taking 80-90 units of Lantus and 50% ratio to carbs of short acting insulin. So, last night I decided to cut my dose of Lantus. My most recent doctor told me to split my Lantus doses to some in the morning and some at night (12 hours apart) to split the full dose. I was taking 60 units at night and 40 in the morning. I cut it to 40 last night and 40 this morning. I am still going to take the 50% ratio of short acting.

So this morning I woke up at 248, and took 40 units of Lantus. I have a splitting headache. I ate 1 piece of whole wheat toast with butter and two eggs. I took 9 units of short acting. Now we will see what happens.

I am going to try to post at least daily, even multiple times a day. I HAVE to get this under control to save my life.