Recent Higher Sugars-any advice

My sugars are high in the mornings between 4.9 and 7.2 but this week have been consistently 7 to7.6 mm/ol

Lunchtime I am usually 5.5 to 6.5 but again have been 7.2. After a very stresful event at work they shot to 8 over 2 hours after eating, they did go back down but only to 7.2.

Pre evening meal they are still low but later seem to rise higher and take longer to go down before bed (7.4 ish recently when they are usually 5.9 or so) I have been eating later however.

My insulin is novo rapid 2 daytime shots of 6 and one of 10 in the evening and 30 of lantus before bed.

Last week I was on the cornish coast path for a week. When I have hiked at week-ends on the peak and penines I often miss the day doses of insulin but keep the evening and night ones.This has only been for a couple of days at a time, this time it was six days of quite strenouos walking.

This time even when I missed the day ones I was still getting hypos of 3.6 to 3.9 and 2.9 at one stage. Later in the week (About Thursday) I stopped the evening dose and had no Lantus Friday or Saturday, blood sugar readings still normal. On Sunday I had an 8 hour train ride so went back to normal insulin dosage and have done so since yet my blood sugar readings though normal are getting higher and taking longer to reduce after a meal.

Could me messing with my insulin to avoid dangerous hypos in rough country have had an effect? If so any advice on how to correct this as I have in the past year kept my averages on pinprick testing very low. Any explanation and possible solution would help. By the way the week was chilled out but work issues hit me straight away on returning.

RPNKW

Cheers Suzi you make good sense, was 4.6 afternoon pre meal and 7.2 1hr 30 min after a low carb evening meal and a hit and miss correctional series of shots but only one reply? where are you compadres, campesinos, I need your advice?

RPNKW

Im not sure, I got a sore throat for a day, however I have had problems with an infected Wisdom tooth recently and had to have it taken out in hospital this morning, should have really been done in December. Last BM I did was Sunday at 5.3 post evening meal but 2.5 hours after eating.

Rob W

To Diomede

I suppose I am striving, even though I think my recent diebetes efforts re weight are screwed, to be better.I got my 30 day meter average ro 4.9 at one point, last one was 5.9 most recently, when I walked a lot in Cornwall I got really low without insulin and stopped all the shots. I think I was asking forum members whether this was unwise and had contributed to me running a series of 7,s when for the past 8 months sugars were lower. I fully take your point but I would rather be lower than high but perhaps I am subconsciously trying to deny that I am diabetic?.

To be honest some of the health service attention , whilst wel;come, makes you feel like ****. My weight had gone up and my dietician kept rolling her eyes and looked very depressed saying "You must have higher sugars than this at your increased weight" she then seemed to take some pleasure in letting me know that cucumber contains a carb trace and handing me some poxy diet sheet saying(Subliminally cos they call it meal monitoring then suggest the meals even down to measuring the diameter of f~~~~@@ spoons) that my Sunday lunch should consist of 3 wafer thin slices of chicken, 3 small new potatoes and a poxy little spoonful of peas,. might as well be dead (By the way my meal plate is 6 incches across and never piled high I do blended curries and other meals without fat but have a wine weakness). I have tested a lot since including very frequent tests on said cornish coast path but sometimes you just think "f~~~ it, whatever" It seems everyone wants you to take some test or other when you really want to say "Leave me the F#### alone , my blood sugar is good, get off my case".I just want to live my life without high readings so I suppose thats why I got panicky when they inched upward.

To all of you, where is the balance here, when do you stop obsessing about this horribly named condition that sends every clip-board waving funding chaser in the world on your tail yet you just want to be normal.To be blunt, wheres the F'''##ing line here?

RPNKW