Liver, thanks but no thanks!

This post is a little overdue but I opened my blog to write a post this morning and saw the draft sitting there... thought I would go back to this original thought...

To be honest, it's not the first time or the last time it happens so it's pretty timely anyway.

Last week, at 5AM, during a nighttime/early morning test, I woke up at a staggering 26.0.  WHAT! Yes... 26.  I know right? Scary... how did I feel? Terrible, sick, tired, nauseous...thirsty.  Man, was I ever thirsty.  I decided that I would sleep an extra hour and go in to work later...

I couldn't remember exactly what had happened to cause this high until later on that day I went through my night time readings in my trusty meter.  I had been woken up at 2AM by my husband and was at 10.3 so I had decided to bolus to lower it to a normal range.  Little did I know that the meeting between bolus and early morning basal would be so tragic and turn into such a BAD morning (pardon my reference to a bad date). 

It turns out, my bolus made me crash and my liver decided to give me a boost of sugar which sent me soaring into the high 20s.  HOW the HELL did this all happen within 3 hours? I don't know.

It seems that this COULD be helpful if you're comatosed and your liver is trying to save you but because I DID wake up... I wasn't so happy with the outcome.  Of course, I wasn't wearing my new CGM which could have caught this problem.  At the same time though, last time this happened (going low in the night), my CGM shut off for 3 hours and I woke up at 19... so I'm not sure I would have been better off had I had it plugged in.

Liver, thanks...but no thanks!

A

PS.  You'll see some creative posts on this blog starting soon too.  I've decided that instead of having a D blog, a sewing blog, a knitting blog and a whatever else blog, I'll have ONE... and it'll be here.