[akwebb3]

Hi all thanks for the posts. I am doing some self testing today. I have put my Atkins on hold for a few more days. I took my Blood Sugar this morning and it was 68. Then after a low carb breakfast it started to go up to 82. So I decided to start doing some self testing things. I ate some ice cream and checked my Blood sugar after that. It got high up to 141. But now that it is dropping rapidly I don't even feel like I need to check it. I know it is bad. I am shaky and very irritable with my kids. I am freezing cold even though I am wearing a long flannel night gown (Hubby calls it my circus tent lol!!). Anyway I guess the problem is how fast it drops and how far it drops. I am a little disappointed about not following the diet today but I figure if I want to do self test stuff like this now is the time since I have to go back to the doctors on Friday to have another glucose tolerance test. For that the Doctor will give lots of sugar and then watch me and my symptoms for several hours. Hopefully that will be the end of the testing for a while. I am wanting to try to control this with out any medication and just use diet. My Grandmother is Diabetic and she no longer takes any meds and just uses her diet to control it completely. I just hope I can do the same.
Thanks again,
Anne