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\"Good<\/a><\/p>\n

Sometimes, all it takes is one bad reading. It comes at the wrong place or time (often both), and it pisses you off.<\/p>\n

I\u2019m referring to the mild case of diabetes burnout that I experienced this week. I call it \u201cmild\u201d because it was fleeting and was not accompanied by the typical array of emotions that are associated with a real case of burnout. This time around, it lasted the length of a day and mainly made me aggravated. It all began bright and early, Monday morning\u2026<\/p>\n

I woke up to a beautiful blood sugar of 97 mg\/dL, which made me especially happy after having to change my pod the night before. I rolled out of bed after testing, and as I started going about my morning routine, I noticed I felt a little shaky and dazed as if I was dropping low\u2026odd, right? My CGM told me that I was stable, so I tried to shake the sensations and attribute it to grogginess. Nevertheless, I decided to eat breakfast before showering in the hopes that might give me the boost my body seemed to need. One smoothie and half a coffee roll later, I felt confident that I could resume getting ready without exacerbated low symptoms. I gave myself a bolus, guesstimating a higher carb count than normal due to the coffee roll, and went to go shower.<\/p>\n

15 minutes later, I still wasn\u2019t out of my fog. I wondered if I went overboard with my carb calculations and gave myself too much insulin. Without mulling it over further, I grabbed a small handful of fast-acting cereal to counteract this possibility.<\/p>\n

All the diabetes drama was making me late for work, so I didn\u2019t pay much attention to what my CGM was reporting over the next hour. When I finally got to the office, I did pay it a glance and saw I was sitting well at about 134 mg\/dL. Maybe I\u2019d made the right call, after all.<\/p>\n

Not exactly. Unbeknownst to me, my blood sugar stealthily climbed to exceed 200 mg\/dL over the next few hours. By lunchtime, I was simultaneously starving and irate when I tested and discovered I was 256! I bolused and sat there, steaming, as I tried to figure out where I went wrong. Did it have to do with my choice of breakfast? Was it because I didn\u2019t sleep well enough? Should I have ignored my body\u2019s pseudo-low symptoms?<\/p>\n

Whatever it was, it triggered me to feel very fed-up and negative about my diabetes for the rest of the day. Granted, I did come back down nicely by the nighttime, but I wasn\u2019t over the fact that my diabetes had been so sneaky on me. Between the symptoms I felt and the slow rise to a hyperglycemic reading, I felt tricked. As a result, I knew I was ready to blame my anger on some good ol\u2019 fashioned diabetes burnout. I felt tired of diabetes and its mean mind games and just wished it would go away.<\/p>\n

But of course, reality sinks in at some point. As my day came to a close, I was ready to move past this day of feeling terrible about my diabetes management and kick ass the next day. And as it would happen, I did. This case of diabetes burnout turned into some damn good motivation, so I guess it isn\u2019t always that bad.<\/p>\n

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