The Battle Of High Blood Sugars & Ketones...

I've used the give-and-take "ketones" exclusively also much inward this postal service - And I promise I NEVER select to practise that 1 time to a greater extent than - Or bargain alongside them again. 
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I woke up incredibly tired Dominicus morning time together with realized midway through that I was running inward the 150's  #bgnow attain for most of the day. 
I'd been out to dinner the nighttime before together with it was a carb filled feast together with I figured the elevated blood sugars were the remnants of said feast. 

 I drank coffee, did some run (OK, attempted to practise some work), did some laundry, took a walk together with finally headed to the beach inward the belatedly afternoon where I spent over an lx minutes (OK, an lx minutes together with xx minutes,) swimming together with torso surfing inward the Atlantic sea  - where I left my worries inward the sea. 

I'd begun my untethered swim/body surfing intermission  with a bg instantly of 170 together with emerged from the sea alongside a a bgnow of 140. 

I came home, decided tested 1 time to a greater extent than together with  was 160. Still running high & notwithstanding non certain why. 

I changed my site did a correction/meal bolus together with an lx minutes after started to brand dinner - Not my norm, but my #bgnow was 140 thus I wasn't worried. 

I  was tired from swimming together with hungry, so I made a tuna salad alongside a handful of depression carb crushed gluten gratuitous tortilla chips sprinkled on give together with loaded alongside veggies, followed yesteryear a Popsicle together with didn't intend twice close it.

I'd made that real same repast a hundred times before - it was depression carb together with slow to bolus for. 

 After dinner I started to drag together with some 10 pm, together with just as I was cook to striking the sack, I discovered that non only was my blood saccharide high - similar 407 high, but thus were my ketones. And I realized my over tired feeling had nix to practise alongside torso surfing.  
my caput was pounding, I was incredibly thirsty, together with I literally felt like I was walking through J-E-L-L-O,

and every activity felt similar a monumental chore together with all I wanted was to larn to sleep. 

But when I saw the 407 flash upwardly on my meter, I knew that slumber wasn't a possibility. I went to the bath together with emptied my filled to the brim bladder together with constitute out that my ketones were hovering precariously betwixt the Medium/ High ketone hues of deep mauve together with purple. 

I can't tell y'all the in conclusion fourth dimension I had moderate to large ketones together with I was to a greater extent than than slightly freaked. I was downward right worried. 

And at that 2nd I would select given anything to select soul side yesteryear side to me - telling me it would hold out all hold out OK - But I was on my ain & I needed to snuff it along it together if I wanted to practise battle inward the country of war that was going on within me.

 I kept surprisingly calm together with did a massive correction bolus of 6.2 units & downed 3/4's of a xvi ounce bottle of H2O together with said a prayer to the Diabetes Gods re: my blood sugar, test strip accuracy & stripping safely, & keeping ketoacidosis at bay. 

I was downright methodical inward my obsessive checking together with tried my best to detach from the emotions together with the diabetes "what-ifs" together with practise what needed to hold out done. 

20 minutes after my bgnow was 383 together with my ketones were decidedly on the moderate mauve side of the ketone spectrum. I drank to a greater extent than H2O together with goodness my yoga breathing. 

20 minutes after that my blood saccharide was 355 together with ketones were notwithstanding inward the moderate range. 

An lx minutes after my blood saccharide was 328,  ketones notwithstanding moderate, together with I made the executive conclusion to alter my infusion site, straight followed yesteryear a 2.9 correction bolus. I finished my bottle of H2O together with started a novel 1 & develop my alert to wake me upwardly at 1:45. for 1:30 a.m.

But I couldn't sleep, non 1 bit. I tried to remain calm together with idea close the waves I'd caught before inward the afternoon. I idea how the sea temp had been perfect together with how cracking it felt to ride a moving ridge from breast deep H2O to calf deep H2O without breaking the wave's crest together with how I was sort of doing the same 1 time to a greater extent than - except the waves were blood sugars together with ketones instead of the tabular array salt H2O waves of the Atlantic - And how I had to ride out the high ketones together with blood sugars inward guild to move inward thus shore inward 1 piece. 

I finally got upwardly at 1:45 a.m. and tested again. I was 279 & much similar Elivis, "my ketones had decided to exit the building." They were all of a abrupt non existent, disappearing every bit chop-chop every bit they'd appeared, similar footprints inward the sand every bit the tide rolled in. 

I drank to a greater extent than H2O together with waited some other xx minutes - I tested for ketones 1 time to a greater extent than together with at that topographic point were none, thus I went to bed. 

My alert went off at what seemed similar an ungodly lx minutes this morning time together with I woke upwardly to overly filled bladder, a 153 blood saccharide together with null ketones. 

I striking the snooze button, emptied my bladder, turned on the java maker bolused for said java together with went dorsum to bed for a one-half hour. 

30 minutes after together with alongside a #bgnow of 81, I dragged myself out of a bed together with poured myself a steaming loving cup of coffee.

It's Mon together with my run plate is to a greater extent than than full. I am battle weary together with tired, together with for the starting fourth dimension time inward years I'm glad that I apparel glasses, because they comprehend the huge bags nether my eyes. But no slumber together with baggy eyes aside, I won the country of war against the raging blood sugars together with ketones - And to the victor goes the spoils together with yada, yada, yada. 

Still, winner or not, I experience similar diabetes kicked my donkey to the curb together with and then jumped the curb together with ran over me alongside a double-decker & did a victory lap upwardly together with downward my body. 

But it my caput I know diabetes didn't vanquish me. And no affair what today brings, I know that diabetes didn't win - It happened, it's over together with I instantly require major amounts of caffeine.