Re: OT small disaster in our community

Michelle C. wrote:
Michael wrote:
Michelle C. wrote:
Michael wrote:


OH man, a pizza. I really hate to think what that would do to me. The generally accepted opinion here is that 140 is the mark at which cellular damage begins. I want to stay away from that damage mark. I hear that some T2s here have been able to get very good control. I have not been able yet to really stabilize my readings. My BG is rarely below 100. I would like to see better average numbers than I am getting. I also take a beta blocker. This of course exacerbates T2 problems.

Michael

Hi Michael,

Define what you mean by "stabilize" please.

Best regards,
Michelle C., T2, no meds

Hi Michelle,

I am trying to achieve what I call stabilization. That is keeping my BG within a window between 90 (or below for that matter) and 110. I have not achieved this. I hear on this newsgroup that it can be done. I suppose I might even consider a reading never above 120 as stabilized. However, there seem to be those here who have done better than peaks above 110.

I am really trying to do this but I have not arrived. There are days when I feel OK with my progress and there are days when I feel like a failure. It is even more frustrating to see a high reading like 130 and have no idea where it came from and what I did wrong to do that.

Once I even got so angry about this failure to control my BG that did not eat anything for two days. My wife convinced me that what I was doing amounted to nothing more than a temper tantrum and was dangerous. I rarely get angry about things. I am pretty even tempered. My wife would agree with this. But being hit in the face with a high BG readings when I have done nothing to deserve it has occasionally made me want to take a hammer to the meter.

Michael


Michael,

I consider myself to have good control, and I don't run that narrowly. Granted, my fbg are lower than what you've been reporting, usually, 87-92, but I do allow myself meals that will put up into the 120's and occasionally the 130's. That's a 40+ point range, double what you're trying to achieve. I'm not saying what you're trying to achieve can't be done, but what you are expecting is for your body to behave entirely like a non-diabetic. And as you can see by your bg reaction to stress, it most certainly is not a non-diabetic. I believe your extreme expectations are causing you anxiety that may drive up your bgs.

(For example, my dad has high bp and the more uptight he gets about what his bp numbers will read, the higher it gets.)

For me, the psychology goes like this: Instead of hoping and praying to be non-diabetic, and beating myself up because I can't always achieve those types of numbers, I start with the premise that I am a diabetic, and am achieving the control that research has proven will be very unlikely to lead to those nasty complications. That means at least 95% of the time, I feel like a success because my bgs are not over 140. For the few times they stray over 140, I find that either I have not kept track of my carbs properly, I'm stressed, or I'm fighting something off. (Sometimes your bg will be high due to fighting an infection that never becomes full-blown, and it may SEEM like you're having high bgs for no reason, although you are.) The first one is a screw-up that I can fix. The other two, I don't have control over, so I'm not going to stress about them.

From my point of view, you are setting yourself up for failure, by dwelling on the relatively few times your bg is truly high--over 140--beating yourself up when it doesn't come in where you want it to even though your numbers are still absolutely fine by ASD standards (and we're a pretty tough group ;-), and not rejoicing in your good numbers, which you have most of the time.

Just something to think about.

Best regards,
Michelle C., T2, no meds

P.S.
(Btw, your wife is right about the not eating thing. In those circumstances, your liver may decide to help you out by adding glucose to your bloodstream, and you could end up with higher sugars than when you eat.)



Hi Michelle,

I had not considered the possibility of an infection that never gets full blown. There is plenty of flu going around here. Half the schools here are closed. My wife and I have not been ill. But we still could have been exposed. We both had swine flu in 1957. We may be fighting it off. We both slept 10 hours straight last night. That is unusual for us.

My FBG ranges between 100 and 130. I am keeping an excel sheet.
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