Thanks, my life is crazy, I don’t know when I can eat so hardly ever inject in time, I end up injecting 10 seconds before or while im eating, so I get silly spikes, Im a terrible diabetic. I deserve all I get.
Nonsense, you're relatively new to insulin and learning the system. There's no such thing as a terrible diabetic, there are people who have more or less difficulty with managing the juggling act of insulin, food, exercise and dare I say it, life.
I think the concept of spikes is a fairly new one. Pre cgms we never knew what our high points were after meals. as the technology wasn't there to tell. Hence the recommendations of levels 90 minutes or 2 hours after a meal. Doctors worked by statistics and hba1cs to say that people with a certain hba1c were much less likely to get diabetic complications (48 is a popular figure). And a lot of specialists get upset with T1s who have hba1cs that are too low, as that can go with severe hypos , which is definitely detrimental to health and life expectancy. And pre glucometers you measured a spike as being over 10mmol/L, as all you could measure was whether sugar had passed into your urine.
As a long term T1 on insulin, I personally lose hypo awareness if I have too many hypos. I had some of the best control of my life during my two T1 pregnancies, with (presumably) pretty low spikes, but I also had multiple trips to A&E for hypos. Not sustainable in the long term.
Now I am fortunate enough to be able to self fund a cgm, hypos are much easier to manage, and I get to see my spikes
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@Rokaab camp, I look at my time in range (4-10), and cheer on the rare days when it's at or near 100%. But there's more to life than watching your bg levels, and if they go higher than you'd prefer, well, there's always tomorrow.