Just curious what odd or unexpected things others have found affecting their numbers.
I'll kick off with two odd things I'm sure about, and one suspect but odder thing.
1. Dentist. (up)
I'm pretty scared of going to the dentist, however much I like and trust my current dentist. I always try to pretend I'm not scared, both to myself and to the dentist.
No way I can fool anyone now I've got the Libre2 with alarms, the moment I enter the dentists practice I shoot up, no matter how stable I was for hours before, and my Libre snitches on me.
It's fine, I mean, I don't go to the dentist all to often, I showed my dentist my ridiculous graph, taught him a lot about diabetes while I was at it, and we had a good laugh about it too!
2. Driving busier motorways. (down)
I live in a rural area, motorways are two lanes, not much traffic, plenty of room between motorway exits. So despite having done my lessons in and around Amsterdam, some 25 years ago, I'm not very used to having 4 or 5 lanes, exits splitting into other exits, exits on the 'wrong' side of the road, and of course cars so close together the car behind me can almost read my speedometer.
While this scares me just like the dentist does, it makes me drop like a brick, so I take care to be aware of my BG and maybe eat a little something whenever I pass eiter the city of Hoorn or the city of Zwolle on my way south, as that's where stuff starts happening.
My guess is that my brain is working very hard at those moments, doing something which takes all my wits and concentration, so the glucose is going to my brain.
Yes, the fear is there, just like at the dentist, but it's not a helpless fear where you need to just sit it out, it's more an active fear of missing something and making a mistake.
3. Going to the vet. (down)
This one may be coincidence, but every time I've been to the vet in the past two years or so (maybe 5 times?) I've had either a hypo while there or right after. By now I know they have a very well filled cookie jar!
Today I remembered, so I did an extra check instead of trusting my Libre (in case of a quick drop), even though a hypo was unlikely at that point. 3.8. Perfect value to catch and treat, and share my winegums with the vet and her assistant, asking if someone else had a hypo too.
I have no idea why the vet would drop me but I'll be alert on sudden drops there in the future.
So what strange BG behaviour have you found?
(Fingers crossed the cat will be alright by the way. He has a heart murmur and it looks like it has turned into heart failure with fluids at his lungs, so he had a shot of prednisone and will be on tablets to make him pee more for 10 days, with the expectation he might need to go on those tablets indefinitely if the symptoms return.)
I'll kick off with two odd things I'm sure about, and one suspect but odder thing.
1. Dentist. (up)
I'm pretty scared of going to the dentist, however much I like and trust my current dentist. I always try to pretend I'm not scared, both to myself and to the dentist.
No way I can fool anyone now I've got the Libre2 with alarms, the moment I enter the dentists practice I shoot up, no matter how stable I was for hours before, and my Libre snitches on me.
It's fine, I mean, I don't go to the dentist all to often, I showed my dentist my ridiculous graph, taught him a lot about diabetes while I was at it, and we had a good laugh about it too!
2. Driving busier motorways. (down)
I live in a rural area, motorways are two lanes, not much traffic, plenty of room between motorway exits. So despite having done my lessons in and around Amsterdam, some 25 years ago, I'm not very used to having 4 or 5 lanes, exits splitting into other exits, exits on the 'wrong' side of the road, and of course cars so close together the car behind me can almost read my speedometer.
While this scares me just like the dentist does, it makes me drop like a brick, so I take care to be aware of my BG and maybe eat a little something whenever I pass eiter the city of Hoorn or the city of Zwolle on my way south, as that's where stuff starts happening.
My guess is that my brain is working very hard at those moments, doing something which takes all my wits and concentration, so the glucose is going to my brain.
Yes, the fear is there, just like at the dentist, but it's not a helpless fear where you need to just sit it out, it's more an active fear of missing something and making a mistake.
3. Going to the vet. (down)
This one may be coincidence, but every time I've been to the vet in the past two years or so (maybe 5 times?) I've had either a hypo while there or right after. By now I know they have a very well filled cookie jar!
Today I remembered, so I did an extra check instead of trusting my Libre (in case of a quick drop), even though a hypo was unlikely at that point. 3.8. Perfect value to catch and treat, and share my winegums with the vet and her assistant, asking if someone else had a hypo too.
I have no idea why the vet would drop me but I'll be alert on sudden drops there in the future.
So what strange BG behaviour have you found?
(Fingers crossed the cat will be alright by the way. He has a heart murmur and it looks like it has turned into heart failure with fluids at his lungs, so he had a shot of prednisone and will be on tablets to make him pee more for 10 days, with the expectation he might need to go on those tablets indefinitely if the symptoms return.)