Re: weather effecting blood sugar

[Guest guest]

Yes it does! Hopefully the hearing will come back as predicted. A friend

once told me that blindness makes you loose things, but deafness makes you

lose people. this is very true as losing communication with people is more

detrimental than losing the sight of things!

Re: weather effecting blood sugar

Pat, I'm glad to hear the surgery was successful and not as involved as they

thought it would be. Wow, having partial hearing might give you a better

appreciation for the def... as I read how you don't have the best balance...

I think of my one friend who is blind and has only hearing in her left ear.

Makes you appreciate what you have don't it?

regards,

weather effecting blood sugar

> > >

> > >

> > > BTW for the past 3 mornings I was running sugars in the 200 range and

> > > previously was running them in the 90 range. Insulin bottles were just

> > > changed and no infection in my body. I had to increase my long acting

by

> 2

> > > units and this morning was at 103. I know that this was caused from

the

> > > change in weather in my area. When it gets cold outside, the cold

> > > temperature effects my metabolism and blood sugars. This isn't the

case

> > for

> > > everyone but is certainly true in some diabetics and I am one of

those.

> > When

> > > summer roles around again, I'll have to adjust my insulin some again

> back

> > > down etc.

> > >

> > > I used to theorize that the change in temperature effected my blood

> sugars

> > > and my family and friends would think I was crazy. Only one who seen

> > > it/believed it was my wife *smile*. However, I read in Doctor

> Bernstein's

> > > book that he has patients that this is true with so it was cool to see

> > that

> > > my theory was true in other patients. BTW he practises in New York,

> right

> > > next to Ohio, so he experiences the same tempature chages that I do

here

> > in

> > > Ohio ranging from extremely hot/humid temperatures in the summers to

> > > extremely low/below freezing temperatures in the winter.

> > >

> > > regards,

> > >

> > >

> > >

> > >

[Guest guest]

ya, and to think how helen keller handled life way back in the prehistoric

technology days. Wow. amazing.

regards,

weather effecting blood sugar

> > > >

> > > >

> > > > BTW for the past 3 mornings I was running sugars in the 200 range

and

> > > > previously was running them in the 90 range. Insulin bottles were

just

> > > > changed and no infection in my body. I had to increase my long

acting

> by

> > 2

> > > > units and this morning was at 103. I know that this was caused from

> the

> > > > change in weather in my area. When it gets cold outside, the cold

> > > > temperature effects my metabolism and blood sugars. This isn't the

> case

> > > for

> > > > everyone but is certainly true in some diabetics and I am one of

> those.

> > > When

> > > > summer roles around again, I'll have to adjust my insulin some again

> > back

> > > > down etc.

> > > >

> > > > I used to theorize that the change in temperature effected my blood

> > sugars

> > > > and my family and friends would think I was crazy. Only one who seen

> > > > it/believed it was my wife *smile*. However, I read in Doctor

> > Bernstein's

> > > > book that he has patients that this is true with so it was cool to

see

> > > that

> > > > my theory was true in other patients. BTW he practises in New York,

> > right

> > > > next to Ohio, so he experiences the same tempature chages that I do

> here

> > > in

> > > > Ohio ranging from extremely hot/humid temperatures in the summers to

> > > > extremely low/below freezing temperatures in the winter.

> > > >

> > > > regards,

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

> > > >

[Guest guest]

Yes, Moon lighting is the imaginary? condition ware a blood sugar seems to drop

out of the blue. I have dealt with this problem since I was little.

[Guest guest]

I've never heard of that. It almost sounds like that lame excuse doctors

called/termed brittle diabetic since the doctor could not get the patients

sugars under control. A diabetic is brittle because they eat to many carbs

that make their bgs unmanageable and doctors just said oh heck, they are

brittle. In other words, we can't figure it out so give it a fancy term and

dismiss it.

I know that every person's body is different. What might make me go low may

not ever effect you. I think it is a matter of becoming in tune with your

own body, meaning understanding what makes you go low, so you can be aware

of it and be ready to deal with it. For example, I can eat dinner and if I

go walk in a crowded mall for 1.5 hours I will drop low. Why? I am walking

which causes the insulin to work better, it is hot which causes metabolism

to speed up better utilizing the insulin I took for dinner, emotional stress

of the mall itself since stress can effect sugars, etc. So, what I am saying

is there is a reason your sugar drops... you just have to study your body

and figure out what the reason was. I'm not quite certain that I would

believe a statement that it just happens. Nothing just happens, there is a

reason for it IMO. If you go low, it is because you have to much insulin in

your system and not enough carbs to keep your sugar elevated IMO. Quick

acting insulin's peek at certain times after taking them as you know. It is

by studying the peeking patterns and the effect those patterns have on your

body/blood sugar that helps you better manage your bgs and keep them within

range. For example, the litature on humalog states it peeks in 2 hours.

However, in my body, it peeks in 3 hours. It also states that humalog begins

working in 15 to 20 minutes and in my body, it doesn't begin working until

30 minutes. So, even looking at this example using myself... if I thought

humalog peeked in 2 hours, and I got checked in 2 hours and I am 120. I say,

ok, I am good to go lets go to the mall. Then I am in a heated mall,

walking, people around me, and in 3 hours past taking the humalog I get low.

Is that really a moon light effect? I mean after all,the humalog peeked in 2

hours, right? There should be no reason for this low sugar, right? hmmmm.

must be the moon light effect eh? Wrong!

Doctors need to spend more individualized time with their patients and not

give lame butt excuses for not spending time helping them study their peek

patterns and helping the patient understand his/her own body and how

medications effect it. It is *very* individualized.

It is very important to study your body. Let it tell you why you are going

low then adjust accordingly. Low sugars don't just happen for no reason.

Medically and biologically it happens because the insulin is greater than

the carbohydrates in the blood.

Sorry for the slight rant... I just hate to hear lame butt doctor excuses

over something they just can't figure out or spend the time to help the

patient figure out. grrrrrrr.

regards,

Re: weather effecting blood sugar

> Yes, Moon lighting is the imaginary? condition ware a blood sugar seems to

drop out of the blue. I have dealt with this problem since I was little.

>

>

[Guest guest]

I think I can swallow that a lot easer then the one I was given. I was told my

pankrious may spontaneously produce insulin when I sleep. Mind you, this was

over years ago. Thanks for the pep talk