So I started getting really high readings on my blood sugar a couple of nights ago, and it completely baffled my wife and I. It’s supposed to be below 170 a couple of hours after a meal, and it came up almost 300 — and no cake this time! Then, the next night, it came up over 200. And today, I was extra-super careful to low-carb it almost all day (we did have some samples at Costco, but nothing significant.)
It came up tonight at almost 200. Then, I took it a few minutes later, and it was 205. A few minutes after that, it was 170. Then, a few minutes later, it was over 200 again. I took it using a different test device, still over 200. Then, my wife suggested that I wash my hands.
As I was washing my hands, I realized that the 170 blood sugar came from my right hand, and all of the other readings came from my left hand. When I came back out, it was 170 on my left hand. Why?
Because I put honey in my wife’s evening glass of kefir, and I’m not terribly good about washing off the honey jar, which I always hold (you can see this coming) in my left hand. So for a few days now, I’ve been panicking about high blood sugar when what I really had was high skin sugar.
The technical term for this is ‘herping a flerp of derp.’
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My grandmother has diabetes too, and while she does not have ADHD she still made mistakes of this sort at first. Now she’s better at it, but she had to learn to do or not to do some things that one would think are not related to diabetes in any way.
Oh, and by the way … . Panicking does raise blood sugar for some people, so it might do you well to learn to sit down and think calmly before panicking (or anything of the sort). It might not be the case with you, but I say it just in case so if you ever get higher blood sugar when you are being emotional you’ll know it’s that and not something more sinister.
Good to know, Kazeto! Thank you! 🙂
High skin sugar, I am going to remember this. thank you mike.