{"id":14970,"date":"2011-03-26T09:45:50","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T13:45:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=14970"},"modified":"2015-12-27T15:41:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-27T20:41:54","slug":"4-injections-and-a-run","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asweetlife.org\/?p=14970","title":{"rendered":"4 Injections and a Run"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I ran 17.5 miles this morning. I set off at 6:00am and met up with some of the runners from my training group about 4miles into the run. All three of them are much faster than I am. (They run marathons at 3:10-3:30.) I ran 6 miles with them until I felt I couldn\u2019t keep up.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I continued to run at a faster pace than I had planned and finished the distance in 2 hour and 26 minutes. I was very happy when I finished the run and my blood sugar was perfect \u2013 <strong>113<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But the day did not start off that way. When I got up at 5:00am to get ready for my run, my blood sugar was a surprisingly high <strong>253<\/strong>. \u00a0I decided I was running anyway and I took my first gel 15 minutes later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">I&#8217;d been surprised to see my BS that high because I had taken more insulin the night before than I&#8217;d taken in a long time.\u00a0 Dinner was pretty standard and included chicken (in tomato sauce), quinoa, salad and some greens. I took 7 units of insulin to cover the relatively large portion of quinoa I ate.\u00a0 (I was carb loading for my run.)\u00a0 Two hours after dinner my blood sugar was <strong>250<\/strong>. (I started 93.)\u00a0 \u00a0I decided to take 2 more units of Apidra and hoped that my blood sugar would go down without dropping low.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At 11:30pm, 2 hours after taking my second injection of Apidra, I checked my blood sugar again. It was <strong>270<\/strong>! I couldn\u2019t believe it. I had eaten a small portion of sugar free ice cream (sometimes even cavemen crave sweets!), but with all the insulin I thought I would be fine. I guess that\u2019s what I get for breaking my Paleo diet for a chemically sweetened dairy snack. So I took two more units of insulin and set an alarm for 1:30am.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At 1:30am, like a robot, I sat up, checked my blood sugar and could not believe what it was <strong>255<\/strong>. I had injected myself four times that evening (including my Lantus) and ended up with <strong>255<\/strong>! Too tired and sick of injecting, \u00a0I went back to sleep without taking a correction bolus, and hoped things would be better in the morning.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">What bothered me more than the unexplainable high was the fact that I had poked and punctured myself so many times in the process of trying to get my blood sugar down.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">As usual, \u00a0I had running to fall back on. So if you ever find yourself in a similar situation consider running 17.5 miles. If it doesn\u2019t make you feel great at least it will lower your blood sugar.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":129,"featured_media":53098,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1501],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v22.9 (Yoast SEO v22.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>4 Insulin Injections and a Run<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"But the day did not start off that way. 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