Diabetes is a daily struggle. Every meal I eat affects my blood sugar.
The past couple weeks have been a larger than normal struggle for me. Recently my sugars have been all over the board.
My body seems to be changing it’s needs everyday so I don’t really see a way to get it right anymore. One day I need 1 unit of insulin for 10 carbs and the next day I need 1 unit for 15 carbs. So if I have a meal with 60 carbs and I take 6 units some days it would be perfect, and some I would have a horrible low. If I have a horrible low a couple times and try taking less insulin (1 to 15), then I’d reduce my insulin to 4 units for the same 60 carbs. I’ll be good for that day but when I do the same thing the next day it’ll go up to 220 when I test 2 hrs after my meal! How am I supposed to know what my body wants at the moment? I don’t know. I’ve never had these problems until the last couple months, but it’s getting worse.
I need the Continuous Blood Glucose Monitor but I can’t afford it, and my insurance won’t cover it. I’ve been working on getting them to cover it for months, and before I had this insurance I worked for a year with my last insurance to no avail.
To put the cherry on the top, my husband and I have been TTC our first child and it seems that as soon as we started trying to gain tighter control over my sugars, they started going nuts. Right when I need them to be the best they can be!
My dream has always been to be a stay at home mom to 2 beautiful healthy children. I am not giving up on that dream!
This has been really discouraging to me lately.
Hopefully tomorrow will bring more sense and better numbers!
