Me too!

Question... so a non-diabetic person could eat literally anything and their BG would never go over 200? Like... what about a cup of maple syrup or something?

Well... time is passing more quickly than I like to acknowledge 😆

Thank you, I need to do this. I do have a cousin with type 1. I don't know about any other relatives. As to the swinging high and low, I don't think it often is. This was the only time I've ever caught numbers that high. Any other time I've ever checked, things are well within the normal range. I don't get it!

Fasting is a good idea. My DH does this with great success. You're right, my sugar is not actually low.... when I feel shaky, if I happen to check, it's often something totally average, like 85, or even 100.

I can relate! I'm always hungry, too. That's why I hated school as a kid, I was always desperate for snack or lunch or the end of the day so I could go home and eat. I was surprised to learn that you can just go buy a meter. A doctor said to me when I was in my 20s, "If you're so concerned, why don't you just take your blood sugar?" and I couldn't believe I could just go get set up at Target for not too much money. The strips ARE expensive which is why I only occasionally test.

Glad to know I'm not the only weirdo! 🙂 Do you check your numbers on your DH's meter? My DH is not diabetic, and he can eat anything and feel fine. He's had maybe one or two crashes ever, and he's always completely surprised, and I'm like.... what did you eat? Oh, cookies and then nothing for 7 hours? Well, couldn't you have seen this coming? (He never sees it coming because it's not part of his experience.)

Sorry, this is a bit long! I've suspected a blood sugar problem for years, at least since my early 20's. Not a high blood sugar problem, but I definitely have blood sugar crashes when I eat something sugary/carby without protein or fat included. I always carry snacks around with me just in case I feel a crash coming on. When I do have a crash that I haven't managed to avoid, I have all the usual symptoms of shakiness, sweating, just feeling awful until I eat, and then it goes away after 10-15 minutes. Lately I've felt like my usual coping mechanisms haven't been working as well. I've been feeling more low than usual, even with trying to eat balanced meals and snacks. I've bought blood sugar meters a few times over the years. They never revealed any major spikes, unless I purposefully ate something like a bowl of sugary cereal with nothing else, just as an experiment. Then my BG would go up to maybe 150/175 after 30-45 minutes, but come down quickly. I have caught some lows (like 70s), and once I waited till I was feeling super low and it was in the 50s. I've never tried to recreate that again! Again, nothing high, just low. Recently, I started checking occasionally before and after meals, and my BG is always is a normal range, like 80 before a meal, up to 120 after a meal, and back down to 80 an hour later. Then today, I did something I almost NEVER do because it always backfires and makes me feel super low afterwards. I had skipped lunch so I was starving and ate a huge bowl of mac and cheese, which was foolish because it has a ton of carbs and no protein. (This is NOT my usual fare, I was rewarding myself for getting stuff done at school today.) Since this was an unusual meal, I was curious so I checked my bg after an hour, and it was 175. Then, I checked after another hour and it was 204, and another 30 minutes later, 185. 😬 Eek! Should I be worried about this, or just stop eating tons of carbs in one sitting? I've really suspected something was off for a long time. But nothing ever came of it, and I even went to the doctor and had fasting BG and A1C done... well... a while ago now, like 10 years ago, but still. Everything's always been totally typical. Maybe this is, too. Can someone clue me in? Thanks.

OMG! 😬

Wow! That's awful. 😞

OluKai's are really comfy: https://olukai.com/collections/womens-shoes

Whoa! That's big. Eager to see how it works out. Maybe people will get on board when they see that school district doing really well (as it hopefully will!).

Yay! I talked to one of my co-teachers yesterday, and she said "I get to have my booster in November!" Apparently everyone in the office had been calculating their booster dates and were really excited.

Eek, I didn't know stomach bugs spread so easily. That's pretty much my nightmare! 😷

Hang in there. This forum can be the deserted island.

At 14 (or... now, lol) I would have been delirious at 1:30am. I'm just not a late night person. Plus, the age difference between 14 and 18 is just bugging me. As a freshman, I idolized certain older girls and would have done a lot to look cool with them. Particularly in the middle of the night, exhausted! I like the 7am breakfast idea that someone mentioned upthread a lot better. They could still wake up the kids in a fun way, with loud music or water balloons on the window, or something. Kids that aren't into surprised could be forewarned, and just do their makeup and hair a little more imperfectly than usual that morning so as not to give away the secret 🙂

Yeah. It sounds like the coach is young, and wants the girls to like her. She may not understand all the issues with this plan. Not that she should be fired, or anything, but this is probably a learning opportunity for her.

Plus they'll all be hyped up from the excitement = not concentrating on driving as well as the usually would.

I totally get this. Covid made me anxious in a way I've never been anxious before. Early on in the pandemic, I started trying to manage my mom's day to day life, even though she's been successfully managing her own life for 68 years! I have some health anxiety that centers around other people's health - usually I can keep it to myself for the most part, but Covid sort of broke down the dam. I hope you find a way to make your son feel less anxious soon!

I had that as a teen. I don't remember what kind. I had horrible cramps that would land me in bed for an entire day, it was agony. BC helped so much! Also, the nurse practitioner said to take ibuprofen three days before my period was due to start. I still do that sometimes, but it's not needed the way it was when I was 14-18.

Wow! In that case, if they really had serious fears about the vaccine, they would have just decided not to visit, right? Makes me wonder how strongly held these vax opinions really are. In any case, good for you for sticking with your boundaries. Plus you convinced two people to get vaccinated, so they're more protected now 👍

Oh geez. I bet that put you over the edge. Did they get vaccinated?

Yikes, someone actually said that at a school board meeting?

Maybe! It's for teaching all day. In up for trying anything.

Or wear contacts.... although for some reason my new contacts were great in the office and blurry at home 😕