April 15, 2022
The insulin at breakfast brought my level down to about 110 mg/dl, and then stayed relatively level. A small 5 g at lunch didn’t impact my levels much at noon, but then a mid afternoon (~2:30 pm) Chinese pork bun and several tablespoons of peanut butter were probably 40 g of carbs in aggregate. I knew that would lift my levels, so I bolused 4 units.
It is always a moving target. In this case, the 4 units of fast acting insulin were not enough to keep my BG level. It continued to climb to about 180 over the next three hours. But then oddly, after the window of effectiveness should have closed, the BG levels began to drop gradually until dinner back down to about 140 mg/dl. I’m not sure what to attribute that to.
Dinner kicked me up to about 160 mg/dl, where I stayed as I worked through my evening.
When I was done with the evening’s activities, I had a choice to bolus and go to bed, or exercise. I was tired, but decided to exercise and see what happened. To my surprise, I dropped down to 80 with only 30 minutes of exercise. It then climbed back up to about 110, but then leveled out at around 100 for the rest of the night. That was a pretty good outcome, in the final analysis.