Diabetes Management
It's been a while since I have posted anything.. I am going to start journalling my experience as a diabetic. I hope this will help me vent my frustrations and be informative to the non diabetic community.
I went to work the other day feeling like crap... like most diabetics we tend to say we can "feel" when our sugars are out of control. Well I checked my monitor and sure enough my sugars were at critical high 25 CDN or 450 AM. Starting time was about 45minutes away so I went to the walk in clinic. I told the Dr. on duty that I needed short acting insulin to cover my meals as the long acting wasn't working correctly.
Currently, I am doing 5 shots a day, while taking 3 pills of glumetza in the evening to lower my insulin resistance. I am completely frustrated and feel like a failure. For example for a snack today i had a pear. my sugars before the pear were at approx 7CDN 126 AM post pear 15 minutes my sugars reached 18 CDN .
I need to get another insulin pen, its a pain in the ass having to switch insulin cartriges twice a day. One for the long acting and one for the short acting.
NOTE: To get the American standard for sugar readings multiply the Canadian reading by 18.