I've been monitoring my blood sugar since last November, and I think I've started to figure out a few rules to sense certain concentrations. Namely:
* If I hold my arms out with elbows bent about 90 degrees, thumbs up, and pay attention to how the lower end of my bicep muscle feels, about two inches above the bend, the feeling seems to depend on blood sugar. If it is above 100 it feels normal. If it is in the 90s I feel a very slight "disquieting" feeling, an "I have to stretch my legs" feeling, like a high-pitched singing in the muscle. If it's in the 80s I feel a definite tremble which is visible when I look at my hand. I haven't gotten below that often.
* If my blood sugar goes very high after eating, 180 or more, I think it gives a sort of "glassy-eyed" feeling, or some kind of pressure behind the eyes, or something. But I haven't gone that high enough to tell, that I know of, fortunately.
* Unfortunately, I haven't worked out any reliable rules for the more common and problematic area of the 120s to 140s. I do get a sense of extreme fullness, sometimes almost verging into nausea, with a heavy heartbeat, when my levels go highest in the morning - BUT this can happen anywhere from 100s to 140s. I think these are "side effects" from my natural insulin secretion whenever my body tries to make a stand against the high blood sugar. Problem is, it doesn't always make that stand very well, and then, I don't feel that.
Does any of this sound like it's on the right track to you? Has anybody gone further and worked out a good set of methods to auto-sense this stuff? Because no matter how many times I fiddle with that meter I still get nasty surprises now and then - there's no substitute for just _knowing_.
* If I hold my arms out with elbows bent about 90 degrees, thumbs up, and pay attention to how the lower end of my bicep muscle feels, about two inches above the bend, the feeling seems to depend on blood sugar. If it is above 100 it feels normal. If it is in the 90s I feel a very slight "disquieting" feeling, an "I have to stretch my legs" feeling, like a high-pitched singing in the muscle. If it's in the 80s I feel a definite tremble which is visible when I look at my hand. I haven't gotten below that often.
* If my blood sugar goes very high after eating, 180 or more, I think it gives a sort of "glassy-eyed" feeling, or some kind of pressure behind the eyes, or something. But I haven't gone that high enough to tell, that I know of, fortunately.
* Unfortunately, I haven't worked out any reliable rules for the more common and problematic area of the 120s to 140s. I do get a sense of extreme fullness, sometimes almost verging into nausea, with a heavy heartbeat, when my levels go highest in the morning - BUT this can happen anywhere from 100s to 140s. I think these are "side effects" from my natural insulin secretion whenever my body tries to make a stand against the high blood sugar. Problem is, it doesn't always make that stand very well, and then, I don't feel that.
Does any of this sound like it's on the right track to you? Has anybody gone further and worked out a good set of methods to auto-sense this stuff? Because no matter how many times I fiddle with that meter I still get nasty surprises now and then - there's no substitute for just _knowing_.
