Saturday and Sunday were good blood sugar days. I’ll surmise that getting more sleep on the weekend than I do during the week may have had a hand in what I witnessed in my CGM data.
On Saturday night we went out to an indulgent dinner at a Chinese restaurant. I didn’t eat any rice, but the starch in many of the sauces, the dumplings, and the green onion pancakes are all hard to resist. So I bolused six (6) units as dinner began and watched how high I climbed. To my surprise, the six (6) units held a blood sugar spike at bay. I hovered in the high 160’s/low 170’s after dinner. That wasn’t bad given my indulgence.
What I found surprising, however, was that at about four and half hours after initially bolusing, my sugar levels dropped down into target range without any further insulin or exercise. My overnight levels stayed even, and even dropped Sunday morning as I got up and started moving around.
I found it additionally interesting that this continued into Sunday night when we had a family dinner at the in-laws. There was food, but there was also homemade desserts. I’m not sure why I didn’t bolus in preparation for that, but my levels stayed remarkably even after dinner given that my belly was full. Detecting before going to bed that I still had much more digesting to do, I decided to bolus a catch up dose that would bring my levels into target range, and add basal insulin as well to keep those levels even throughout the night.
What I don’t understand is how my levels rose then fell of their own accord before injecting insulin at bed time. Could sleep have been the only factor.
If I could just get my act together and put myself to be earlier each night, who knows what I’d find…?