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  1. A day in the life....

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    Trail Otter
    , 05-17-2014 at 21:04 (My wife and I are planning to thru hike the AT in 2017)


    05172014


    Went hiking with 27 pounds on my back. We went a little over 6 miles. Wow! I got quite the workout today. Plus the raking and mowing of the yard.

    For those who are curious my blood sugar log went like this:

    5:53am (I slept way late!)116I took 28units lantus and 5 units for a 75 carb breakfast plus 2 extra units because I always spike 2 hours after I get up.

    7:35am ...
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  2. What else can cause a change in my Blood Sugar Readings?

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    Trail Otter
    , 05-01-2014 at 04:44 (My wife and I are planning to thru hike the AT in 2017)
    04302014

    What, other than food, can affect my blood sugars?

    Living

    If I wasn’t living I wouldn’t have diabetes.

    Also known as STRESS

    I learned this after 14 days with no power in the Great Ice Storm of 1989. One week after normalcy was restored my blood sugars would not go down. I kept an appointment with my diabetes educator and she relayed to me that all her diabetic patients were dealing with the same ...
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