No Sugar Added

Today has been a crazy day of blood sugar mayhem. (Did you know the actual legal meaning of ‘mayhem’ is a crime involving dismemberment? So I guess it wasn’t quite mayhem. But my blood sugar was at least disturbing the peace).

Everything was legit at breakfast (blueberries & Kashi), but then I started to feel low blood sugar around 10 am, so I ate some M&Ms to fix that. Then about an hour later I had some trail mix, along with a hit of insulin. This trail mix is quite tasty, if a bit sweet – it’s got raisins, yogurt chips, sunflowers seeds, and a few nuts. From then on, though, I have had high blood sugars all day – 250+ mg/dl and as high as 360 after lunch. (Normal is 80-120, and if you didn’t know that, then it’s a good bet that’s your blood sugar right now.)

I’ve gone through all the usual explanations for high BGs in my head, but it looks like I’ve caught a stone whodunit, like they say on The Wire.

So I switched up my insulin (new bottle), corrected with an injection, and then put in a new insulin pump site and reloaded my pump. Let’s hope all that fixed whatever’s going on – because I fired up some spaghetti, chicken sausage, and salad for dinner…