In the garden, and RAIN!!! (2)
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Now that I have a few days of continuous monitoring under my belt I wanted to see what a "good" average level was.
Considering my first 2 of the 5 days I've been doing this were a majority over 200, I would say I'm not doing too shabby.
I read this:
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While A1C and eAG levels will differ depending on several factors, including age, sex, activity level, etc., the ADA recommends a target eAG of 154 mg/dL (A1C = 7%) for most adults with diabetes who are not pregnant.
eAG is Estimated Average Glucose.
My average right now is 166 since I put the monitor on Thursday afternoon, down from the 174 that it was before I left yesterday morning to go to my aunts.
My A1C for the past 5 days is 7.3% (With 7.0% or lower being the target). I realize that you don't get a real A1C reading unless they test your red blood cells over the last 3 months, but with the limited data I have recorded since Thursday, that's where they're telling me that I currently stand.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:But you're on the downhill slide with the dentist, right? Just a follow-up, and then dial back to regular cleaning and exams?Altho, from the sound of things, this appt does make for a busy week!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for a walk and the dentist.
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I am on the downhill side of things now. This was just a cleaning and partial exam. Everything checked out and I don't go back until November now.
Appointments do make for a long week for sure.
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Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Now that I have a few days of continuous monitoring under my belt I wanted to see what a "good" average level was.
Considering my first 2 of the 5 days I've been doing this were a majority over 200, I would say I'm not doing too shabby.
I read this:Quote:
While A1C and eAG levels will differ depending on several factors, including age, sex, activity level, etc., the ADA recommends a target eAG of 154 mg/dL (A1C = 7%) for most adults with diabetes who are not pregnant.
eAG is Estimated Average Glucose.
My average right now is 166 since I put the monitor on Thursday afternoon, down from the 174 that it was before I left yesterday morning to go to my aunts.
My A1C for the past 5 days is 7.3% (With 7.0% or lower being the target). I realize that you don't get a real A1C reading unless they test your red blood cells over the last 3 months, but with the limited data I have recorded since Thursday, that's where they're telling me that I currently stand.
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WOO HOO!!
Yeah, don't count AC just yet. You need three months of treatment before you can start figuring that out.
I guess it would be hard at this point to figure out when you started to have problems. Part of it is, you WERE active. And the other part is, you WERE really cold, and that can definitely raise your required calories. But OOC, can you rememeber a time when you needed to eat cheap "filler food" when you WEREN'T physically active or freezing?
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:
Yeah, don't count AC just yet. You need three months of treatment before you can start figuring that out.
Yeah. And if I had my way we wouldn't even start that clock until Thursday. The first week I was just on 500mg Metformin twice a day. The second and third week I was on twice that with the Glipizide and a long-active. It wasn't until week four that I was on long and rapid-active, and two days after that I got the continuous monitor installed.
So we're starting week 5 today, but in my mind it's only day 6 today because I couldn't actually really understand anything that was going on until I could see continuous data.
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I guess it would be hard at this point to figure out when you started to have problems.
Well... You mentioned before that I could have had this problem brewing for years (pun not intended), and that maybe I was drinking so much coffee to overcompensate for it.
I think it's possible that I was borderline (or pre) diabetic for YEARS, and even with a doctor's visit 4 years ago and some eye exams, nobody caught it. The first thing my dentist said when we found out how much bone loss I had with my teeth was he thought I could have diabetes. I think that was EIGHT YEARS AGO right now. I've been sober for 6 1/2 years, so yeah... I think that started in 2015. When I got blood work done in 2019, I was 104mg/dL and they warned me about it being high but didn't say it was diabetes (or pre-diabetes).
So I guess an A1C wouldn't be a bad test right now. Since red blood cells die off in 3 months it wouldn't go back very far, but it would probably tell us if it had been going on at least since the 1st week of March, which I'm sure it was since that would have been right around the time where I'd already lost around 20lbs without even realizing I'd lost it.
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Part of it is, you WERE active. And the other part is, you WERE really cold, and that can definitely raise your required calories.
I was active when going to Grams to visit her when she was ill and before she passed, and then after she passed when I was continuing removing what was left of the hoard, but I was far less active this winter and spring than I usually am. By this time last year I had already built all of my shelving and installed all the new electric in my garage and removing what was left of my own hoard out there while re-organizing everything. As far as housework goes this year, I've mowed the lawn twice and installed my outside porch lamp. :(
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But OOC, can you rememeber a time when you needed to eat cheap "filler food" when you WEREN'T physically active or freezing?
Well... I've been eating rice like that ever since right around the time I went gluten-free(ish). That would have probably been about a year after I sobered up. (For three or so years I was completely gluten free, but then I relaxed that to only being gluten free at home and not putting anyone out if they were cooking for me or when I was eating out with people like when I go down to visit my brother).
Brown rice became my cheap filler food to make up for not eating the tons of pasta and pizza I ate back in my drinking days.
And yeah... as active as I could be during that time, I've always had my ups and downs. Winter was always the worst for the downs, but it could happen in the middle of summer too. You can probably remember how I always get in the zone and get a ton of stuff down but then I can have 2 or 3 weeks straight where I do nothing and feel like doing nothing.
So... I don't even really consider that out of character.
I'm probably Bi-Polar just like my mom and my brother on top of being a diabetic.
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Well... It happened again today. I was around 110 straight through a 9:30 dinner/shot up until around 11:30 when I went to sleep and a few hours after that. That was an earlier-than-usual sleep time for me after not sleeping very long at my aunt's place the previous night. At around 4:30 my alert went off to let me know I was over 200mg/dL. I woke up around 8:00AM and it was 210. So this appears to be something that will happen to me every night while I'm sleeping unless the doctors can figure out something for me.
But hey, even though we breached 200 this morning after managing to stay under it last night, at least I'm not waking up to 400's and 500's anymore, right?
Weight is acceptable too. I had pizza yesterday for lunch and leftovers last night and those 4 tabs of gluten when I hit a low in the afternoon and I'm 153.4, which is down from two days ago. I'd like to remain steady at around this weight until my workouts start developing more muscle and we can move our way up to around 165 and keep it there.
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Out for my walk in a bit and today's assignment, hearing aides check and hearing test.
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Quote:Hey, I call that a win! I wonder if your doctors will try to do something about that AM spike or if they'll just let it slide, as long as it's not too high.
Originally posted by 6IXSTRINGJACK:
Well... It happened again today. I was around 110 straight through a 9:30 dinner/shot up until around 11:30 when I went to sleep and a few hours after that. That was an earlier-than-usual sleep time for me after not sleeping very long at my aunt's place the previous night. At around 4:30 my alert went off to let me know I was over 200mg/dL. I woke up around 8:00AM and it was 210. So this appears to be something that will happen to me every night while I'm sleeping unless the doctors can figure out something for me.
But hey, even though we breached 200 this morning after managing to stay under it last night, at least I'm not waking up to 400's and 500's anymore, right?
Weight is acceptable too. I had pizza yesterday for lunch and leftovers last night and those 4 tabs of gluten when I hit a low in the afternoon and I'm 153.4, which is down from two days ago. I'd like to remain steady at around this weight until my workouts start developing more muscle and we can move our way up to around 165 and keep it there.
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Still up around 200, so it would appear that I didn't take enough insulin when I ate to overcompensate for the already high number I woke up with this morning.
It's going to be tricky perfecting the balance. A couple more units could get me crashing again.
It seems like I have a hard time bringing it down in the morning with breakfast, but I bring it down too much in the afternoon with lunch.
My math isn't fuzzy, at least when I'm at home in a controlled environment. I'm wondering if something I'm unaware of is going on behind the scenes here.
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Quote:I hope this means that next week won't be as busy!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk in a bit and today's assignment, hearing aides check and hearing test.
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Originally posted by SIGNYM:Quote:I hope this means that next week won't be as busy!
Originally posted by Brenda:
Out for my walk in a bit and today's assignment, hearing aides check and hearing test.
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Next week should be slower for sure. But I do have to squeeze in the vampires for my thyroid check.
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