Daytrading
Okay, so I’m still day-trading. I know that eventually, I will not try to analyze every up and down of my blood sugar. But for the moment, it’s really irresistable. First of all, yesterday. After class, we took the kids out to the movies. (Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban — my favorite so far of the books but my least favorite movie; nothing really wrong, but everything just felt somehow … off, the actors for the new roles, the changes to Dumbledore’s character, the look of the werewolf, and, Amy notes, changes to Hogwart’s physical plant.) A small bag of popcorn there, probably twice the carbs I’ve alloted for an afternoon snack. Then we did dinner at the Olive Garden. I ordered the eggplant parmesan. I managed to keep to only two breadsticks, some salad, all the eggplant, and almost none of the pasta. That was still clearly too many carbs. The evening blood-sugar was 197.
But it was back down this morning. And it has stayed down all day. For the first time, I’m doing mid-day readings. (The ones taken in class don’t count.) I just want to see how meals and snacks change the readings. Nothing but dinner seemed to make a difference. My readings over the day were 116, 111, and 117. After dinner it was 142. This may also have to do with the timing of the medication. The Glucotrol may have worn off by dinner time.
Still, this is far too much attention paid to a fluctuating number. It can’t be healthy. But I’m going to try to track it for a few more days.
Blood sugar: Thursday pm: 197, Friday am: 116.