8:00- Wake up, check my blood sugar (and technically I am supposed to write each and every blood sugar in a log! but i don't), and if I eat, give myself the appropriate amount of insulin. Say, if I eat 2 pieces of toast, which is 30 grams of carbs, then I would give myself 2 units of insulin, because my carb-to-insulin ratio is 15 carbs per unit. I don't usually eat breakfast, though.
12:00- Check my blood sugar, eat, and give myself insulin.
6:00- Check my blood sugar, eat, and give myself insulin. Sense a theme here?
9:00- Check my blood sugar...again...but this time I am taking Lantus, which is the 24-hour insulin that I take which kind of keeps things steady. I take it from a bottle and syringe however- I take 20 units, which is rather a lot, because I don't take very much Novolog.
Now, all of this is assuming that I don't have any problems with blood sugar throughout the day, which rarely happens! If I feel high, then I check my sugar and take enough insulin to correct-1 unit per amount I am over the correct blood sugar. I am supposed to stay between 80 and 180. If I feel low, I check my blood sugar and ingest some sort of sugar source as fast as I can. This can be a dance that lasts all day without me reaching target blood sugar levels! I go low, I have too much sugar, I go high, then I have to take insulin, then I go low again...etc. Tres frustrating!
So that is my rather long and boring account of my day-to-day life with diabetes! Hannah's, however, is a lot different from mine, so we shall see!
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Ahhh, the insulin talk. I probably know more than the average person does about insulin and diabetes. Lol, Jk, well not really cuzz i do know more, i am gonna stop.
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