I wrote before that I would be driving to New York for my son's birth (tomorrow!). This was a long drive. From Houston, it is about 26 hours. It's been quite a while since I've taken a trip this long, so I had forgotten how much sitting in one spot, not moving, festering in your own blood sugar malaise, affected actual blood sugar numbers. I started the trip a little high (around 150) so I did a little insulin before we left and thought I'd be okay with regular dosing. This most certainly wasn't the case. It jumped up quite a bit. I don't know the exact blood sugar because I dropped my kit under the seat and couldn't reach it. But, I could tell things were going poorly based on how much my cheeks hurt when I clenched them. I do this quite a bit. I could also tell by how pungent the smell of alcohol became with every passing quarter hour. So with alcohol vamping through my system without the fun side to it, and the pain of spiders crawling under my skin, I started dosing a little more than usual. But, with every shot, it seemed that my blood sugar would only go up. My only solution was to overdose so much that there could not be any way my blood sugar would not drop at least a little. We're talking 30 units here. Nope. Wrong.
Well Juvenation, let me stress the importance of getting an education and using that education. This education need not be collegiate or really even high school, to be honest. All you need is the ability to read, an ability that I seem to lose when my blood sugar jumps. I was doing Lantus. Lantus, which would not come to kick in until this morning, when I woke up and nearly passed out at the vending machine next to my room.
Read your labels. Get sleep. Don't dose and drive.
Babies can be distracting. (and he's not even here yet.) :)
I have trouble keeping my son's BG in control when we're on the road.
I don't quite get what you mean about the alcohol...