There are certain signs in the weather that show the changing of the seasons. For fall, we feel a coolness in the air, we see changing colors on leaves, we begin to see frost. But there's also another sign that fall is soon around the corner: insulin resistance! That's right, as the air temperature drops, so does my sensitivity to insulin.
Case in point: last night's dinner. I made chicken quesadillas with rice, cheese, and 15 different kinds of beans (holy protein!). This dinner was relatively mild on the carbs, only 31 grams, with a nice amount of protein to help keep things steady. I peaked at 250 mg/dL with this meal, which kind of surprised me, but I leveled out at 123 mg/dL before bedtime with less than a unit of active insulin on board. I thought I was set for a nice streamline when I woke up this morning.
But around 4:00 AM I woke up to a high alarm from Constance, 184 mg/dL. I thought this was weird, but I knew I was starting to see a climb in my numbers around this time when I first got on Dexcom. I started to see this climb again during our beach trip, but I chalked it up to not eating the greatest. But it seems this trend occurs around the first week of fall and follows me through the holidays. When I got up an hour later I was up to 206 mg/dL according to my meter. After correcting and taking my bolus for breakfast, I was still streaming in the 180s before my breakfast peaked at 275 mg/dL!
It's really frustrating because I felt like I had this routine down for so long and it usually resulted in a 180 mg/dL peak AT MAX! Now I'm seeing fasting numbers at that level with post-meal numbers even higher. I think it might be time to bump up my midnight basal so as to hopefully control this problem. It's either the changing weather or a bad vial (which is possible considering my vial just spent over 24 hours in a car traveling last week, even with an ice pack I'm not sure it would last that long), but I won't know until I change my site in a few days. I'll probably wait to change my basals then or at my endo appointment next month.
For the most part, I love fall and it's my favorite season. But this change is one I can't tolerate!
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- Holly
- My name is Holly and I live in north Alabama with my hubby, two cats, and a dog.
Ugh, I experienced something similar on Sunday and Monday. Mr. Gaeta (my Dexcom, aka Constance's son ;)) spent a good deal of time vibrating and shrieking at me. I couldn't figure out what caused it and I went beyond rage bolus (which didn't help) and into rage basal (helped, a little too much). It must be the weather change. Ducking fiabetes.
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