My blood sugar has been quite high recently despite taking an extra unit of insulin at each meal. Sun dried tomatoes and raisins were included in a recipe I'm having for dinner this week, which probably contributes extra sugar to my diet, but it's not just dinner. Every meal seems to be a little bit high. I had been snacking a little bit too much on Dr. Coy's chocolates lately but my sugars seem to be high even when I don't. I'm less active too lately. It's hard to stay active when it's winter outside and loneliness means you've no one to go places or do things with. Although I wouldn't be lonely without others if the weather allowed for me to go out and about and find fun things to do on my own. I might try adding more insulin to meals but I need to exercise more to decrease my insulin resistance. I tested myself before dinner a while ago and it read 16.8. That was a big surprise considering it's normally never that high before dinner even though I eat some fruit between breakfast and dinner. I checked my averages before writing this and they're high, but they have been in the 10s for the past couple of months. My 7-day average is 10.7, 14-day is 10.5 and 30-day is 10.6. I don't have a nurse appointment until April but I suspect if my HbA1c was done now it'd be higher than the one from October.
I have an appointment with the dietitian tomorrow. She just called as I was writing this to rearrange my appointment for forty five minutes earlier. I'll mention how the appointment went in next week's post. Not sure what to expect from it but my diet has been more to do with eating what's handy and convenient rather than concentrating on making it healthy. I'll see what advice she gives me and take it from there.
On a lighter note, I've come up with two names for people who have diabetes and coeliac disease at the same time, as you can see from the title of this post. I was thinking about random stuff while preparing dinner earlier and the term "diabeliac" came into my head. But then I thought, I got coeliac disease first and consider myself a coeliac who happens to have diabetes as well. So if diabeliac is a person who's had diabetes longer and considers themselves a diabetic who happens to have coeliac disease, then I must be a coeliabetic! It's a fun thought. Which one are you?
Battling two autoimmune diseases while a third has been in remission for over two decades
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