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I had a weird realization while commenting on Emily’s recent post<\/a>.\u00a0 I mentioned that I had been diabetic for 12 years.\u00a0 I hadn’t done the math recently.\u00a0 Diagnosed in Feb 1999 and it’s now July 2011.\u00a0 Whoa. I had always seen myself as a “new” diabetic who didn’t need to worry about some of the complications.\u00a0 Now I’m someone who’s been diabetic for more than 10 years.\u00a0 Then I started thinking about all the times over those 12 years that I’ve woken up with blood sugar at 250.\u00a0 Scary.<\/P><\/p>\n

It was one of those “kicks” we all need that we gotta start monitoring our control better.\u00a0 So that’s what I started doing.\u00a0 And it worked!\u00a0 The past few days, I’ve had great control, with Dexcom almost always telling me I’m in the 90-150 range.<\/p>\n

But as often happens when I keep my sugar under very tight control, I started getting low a bit more often.\u00a0 Then last night, I woke up at 50, which is a bit lower than I tend to normally be when I wake up.\u00a0 My body normally wakes up when I’m below 65, no matter how deep my sleep.<\/p>\n

So now I’m focused on staying in the 120-160 range, to be sure to avoid lows again.\u00a0 As frightening as it is to think about complications, nothing scares me more than hypoglycemic unawareness.\u00a0 And while 50 is not quite yet “really dangerous” territory, it is still below what I’m comfortable with.<\/p>\n

The past few days were a mini version of my “diabetes cycle.”\u00a0 Something happens that scares me into really keeping my control perfect in that 90-150 range.\u00a0 Then as a result of the great control, I get used to being lower, my body gets a bit less alert with lows, and I get a low reading that scares me into wanting to keep the sugars a bit higher.<\/p>\n

Back and forth like a game of ping-pong.\u00a0 I guess that’s what cycles are all about.<\/p>\n

(and one of my favorite photos.\u00a0 In honor of the swings.)<\/p>\n

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