In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
POSTED BY: SIGNYM
UPDATED: Friday, September 11, 2026 15:29
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Thanks Sigs.
Yeah, right? Some cookies or something too. I really felt like I wasted that insulin when I was "snacking" on chewables to keep the level from dipping instead of eating REAL FOOD. I told him the only reason I was eating the tabs was because we were out for a few hours without any food and I could have been eating some more food instead if we were still at his house or if I were at my place and I'd done the same thing.
I think it's pretty hard on him seeing me having to go through with this. I talk with his wife a lot when I'm there and she's super into cooking and nutrition already, although she didn't have any experience with diabetes or diabetics before so she's really interested in it. (Which is doubly awesome for me because she's caring enough that she is incorporating what she's learned into her cooking when I come over too 
). She told me that it's been rough on my buddy seeing me go through this. He doesn't want to talk much about it, but at the moment it is all I'm really talking about. I know it bothered him how much I was looking at the meter yesterday, but I told him that it's only because this is all new to me and it was only my 2nd day using it. Once I really figure this stuff out I should be able to sleepwalk through the steps and even though I'll have the monitor on me it will only be to let me know if I'm getting too high or low and I won't be obsessively checking it all the time.
So after I posted last night I cooked up 2 chicken breasts. By that point I was down to about 180mg/dL. If I didn't cheat a little and have some sunflower seeds I probably would have been under 200 all night and would have even gone down a little from 180, but it looks like I hung around 180-190 most of the night and by early morning around 3 hours before I woke up I went over 200 up to around 230 and when I woke up I was 210 before I took my long-active. (I think that the higher readings around 6:00AM-9:00AM are either because of the phenomena that Second posted about way earlier in this thread and/or the long-active shot from the morning before wears off before 24 hours is up).
So...
Great news. Even though I went out and ate at a friends and had to overcompensate for some lows with glucose tabs and then I overcompensated a bit by eating too many chips/cookies and went a little high, this was my lowest wake-up number by 92mg/dL so far.
I'm already doing pretty decent on the carb counting program that I wasn't ordered by Dr. Endo to start until my Diabetes Education classes that don't even start for another 11 days.
I'm probably not going to bother too much with worrying about gaining weight and weighing myself constantly anymore too. If anything, I've got to start getting more active and/or eating less for a while. I haven't weighed myself today, but yesterday after my business I was 153.4lbs. That's a full 10lbs heavier than I was right around Easter when I thought I was dying. Though it's obvious that just by working out for around a month now I've already put on some muscle and that a few pounds of this is water weight due to the fact I'm not constantly dehydrated while drinking gallons of fluids per day, I've also got some belly fat on the sides of my abdomen.
I never thought I'd be so happy to see belly fat. 
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:Quote:
Originally posted by Brenda:
Have a good evening SIX.
We did, thanks Brenda.
We had dinner then we went fishing for a few hours. I caught ten fish with his daughter's fishing pole. Crappies and Blue Gills. He was using my blue gills as bait and got himself a real nice large mouth bass with one of them right after he caught the biggest crappie he's ever caught in his life. It had to be over 4 lbs. I didn't even know they got that big.
I overestimated how much insulin I'd need for dinner there and thankfully I picked up some glucose chewables for my kit because I needed 6 of them while we were out fishing. Man, it's going to be hard figuring that out when I'm not at home measuring everything myself. I still dipped low when I was at his house, so I ate some chips and a few mini-cookies they had instead of wasting that extra insulin on more chewable tablets. But of course, I over-compensated the other way and went too high.
I was running around 60 to 85 for about 4 hours there, and after the chips and cookies I spiked up to 236 and now I'm back down under 210.
The good news is that I'm not feeling sick when I get around 75-80 anymore, but I really felt it when I got down to 60-70. Also good is that even though I spiked over 200 it was still not that high over 200 and I won't be going to sleep tonight in the 300's.
Once we got back to his place we played a few games of pool and watched a movie. They sent me home with more food again.
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Cool on the fishing. I haven't been since I was a kid and then I didn't catch anything.
SIG is right. Keep a small bag of cookies or even granola bars on you at all times.
I carry chocolate chip granola bars with me for my hypoglycemia.
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Out for my walk in a bit in the rain.
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Quote:Yeah, me too. Rain or shine, I have to take puppy-wuppy out for her morning business. Fortunately for me, it's mostly "not rain" altho yesterday morning it was spattering, and the day before yesterday it was truly raining. I thought our rain was over for the year? NOW, I guess, is the end of the rainy season?
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk in a bit in the rain.
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Odd...
The Long-Active jab doesn't actually appear to do anything?
I'm going to eat lunch now but I didn't eat breakfast. I took that Long-Active shot 4 1/2 hours ago now and I'm really not seeing any difference. It's gone down a bit into the 190's range, but it's just kind of been stable at a little too high all morning.
Weird.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:Yeah, me too. Rain or shine, I have to take puppy-wuppy out for her morning business. Fortunately for me, it's mostly "not rain" altho yesterday morning it was spattering, and the day before yesterday it was truly raining. I thought our rain was over for the year? NOW, I guess, is the end of the rainy season?
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk in a bit in the rain.
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That's part of having a doggo as a pet.
I hope you don't get too much more rain. There are wildfires burning in my province and Alberta has 80 burning and they are calling help from Ontario and Quebec. Think there is a big wildfire burning in Saskatchewan but nothing farther east so far.
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Back from my walk and I got lightly rained on when I went out then it seemed to stop. Suppose to be more.
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Quote:I get different info from different websites, but "long acting" insulin doesn't start working for 2 hours, never peaks, and works for appx 24 hours. Ultra long acting only gets going after 6 hours, doesn't peak, and works for appx 36 hours. If you're injecting yourself every day you'll never see it "kick in" since its effect will be constant. I think what this means is that without the long-acting insulin your blood sugar would be routinely near 300? Anyway, a lot higher than it is now.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Odd...
The Long-Active jab doesn't actually appear to do anything?
I'm going to eat lunch now but I didn't eat breakfast. I took that Long-Active shot 4 1/2 hours ago now and I'm really not seeing any difference. It's gone down a bit into the 190's range, but it's just kind of been stable at a little too high all morning.
Weird.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I get different info from different websites, but "long acting" insulin doesn't start working for 2 hours, never peaks, and works for appx 24 hours. Ultra long acting only gets going after 6 hours, doesn't peak, and works for appx 36 hours. If you're injecting yourself every day you'll never see it "kick in" since its effect will be constant. I think what this means is that without the long-acting insulin your blood sugar would be routinely near 300? Anyway, a lot higher than it is now.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Odd...
The Long-Active jab doesn't actually appear to do anything?
I'm going to eat lunch now but I didn't eat breakfast. I took that Long-Active shot 4 1/2 hours ago now and I'm really not seeing any difference. It's gone down a bit into the 190's range, but it's just kind of been stable at a little too high all morning.
Weird.
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Interesting. I'm going to have to talk to the doctor and get his take on it.
It's about 2 hours and 45 minute since I jabbed and ate. I never spiked after eating this time, but it remained pretty constant around 185 or so for about 90 minutes after lunch, but in the last hour it's gone down to around 135. This does seem to be the time of day that I start dipping. It wouldn't surprise me if I hit the 60s to 90's before I eat dinner.
I don't really understand why this seems to be my pattern.
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Yup. Just like I thought would happen I ended up getting my alert that I fell under 80. Not sure what happens between lunch where it didn't really go down from around 200 for a few hours and then just kind of free falls about 4 hours later. It's not the exact same time every day, but there is a pattern developing here.
I didn't use glucose tabs, but I had a 1/2 cup of peanuts a few hours ago when it happened. Been between 75 and 80 since then and I'm cooking dinner right now.
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