A Very Frustrating Night

I haven't been this frustrated with my glucose levels in a long time.

Earlier today, my mom asked if I wanted to go for a walk.  Tonight is normally the night I go to Zumba, but the weather was nice and I really wanted to be outside.  So I agreed.

We had a nice, normal dinner of potatoes, asparagus and chicken.  We decided to wait for a little bit after dinner, with the intention of going for our walk around 7:00.  I started a temporary basal around 6:45.  So when 7:00 rolled around, I did glucose.  It was 6.2 mmol/L, not nearly high enough to walk.  Thinking it was no big deal, I had a bit of regular pop and waited for a bit, thinking that should be good enough to get my glucose high enough to walk safely.  I did glucose a little while later and it actually went DOWN to 5.2 mmol/L!

I ended up having to run another temporary basal, eat a bit (even though I wasn't hungry after eating dinner), and drink a bunch more regular pop over the course of the evening.  Slowly my blood sugar went up, but not spectacularly so (it was 6.2, 6.4, 6.9 and 6.8 over the course of the last few hours).  In the end, my mom did a bit of indoor exercise and I continued to do a whole lot of nothing.

I'm not even sure what caused this.  I thought I had done a reasonable amount of insulin for the food I ate at dinner.  Plus the temporary basals should have kicked in and brought my glucose levels up.  But for some reason they didn't.

At this point, all that's left to do is call it a night and try again tomorrow!