blood sugar

One of the things I really struggle with is keeping my blood sugar levels from going all over the place. I have way too many things about myself I want to fix. My sleep's all over the place as well and I think the sleep and sugar levels are related to an extent. Control one and it should be easier to control the other, however, they seem to be either working against eachother or working together against me (yes, this second statement is ludicrous).

I thought about why I didn't seem to have any control of the blood sugar levels and came to the conclusion that it was because I didn't have anyone to essentially appraise the results. There was only myself and frankly I've been awful at self-appraising my results.

Admittedly, I go to a diabetes clinic every 6 months or so but it's too long a time I find to help me sort myself out. I feel really bad about letting myself slip, about a week either side of the appointment but the rest of the time I'm floundering without giving my sugar levels very much thought at all.

I went to a clinic earlier yesterday and for the first time in well over a decade I showed my doctor an honest set of results. Previously I'd either made the results up because I was too disorganised to write them down each time (and that old blood glucose monitoring meters I had before didn't say when the test had been done - luckily my present one does) or I'd changed the values of the worst results so that I looked like I was doing better.

I don't know why it took well over a decade to realise that lying to myself was a bad idea.

Possible reasons are being too proud to admit I was doing badly and perhaps a certain amount of arrogance in thinking I would be able to rectify problems at the drop of a hat.

So one reason for starting this whole blog thing was an attempt to take some accountability for my well being. By posting the numbers I get, my friends (and anyone else who might care in future) can let me know how I'm doing, offer encouragement and if necessary, help me to deal with problems.

So without further ado here are my (admittedly terrible) figures for December 2008

	0	2	4	6	8	10	12	14	16	18	20	22
01	3.2						3.3
02										12.3
03							6.1			3.1
04
05	8.6					2.4
06		7.2								16.4
07			20.3				4.2			16.9		4.6
08									5.1
09	8.6
10
11		6.3
12					13.3				21.4
13
14												6.4
15
16												14.2
17
18								5
19					18.2	13.8
20									7.1		8.6
21										8.9
22							8.3
23
24										19.3	14.3	13.1
25					10.4		3.8				12.8
26			18.1							3.3
27			9.6						5.4
28												5.1
29				11.7
30	11.5							6.5
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