A major scare...

[SMKelly]

Hi all,

Before I started this WOE, I was an out-of-control Type II diabetic. unmedicated numbers were in the high 200s, low 300s and A1C was nearly 10.

So within a week of doing this new life change, my numbers dropped to a range of 80-110 without meds.

So imagine my absolute terror yesterday when I tested my fasting number and came up with...

47.

Shouldn't I have been dead?

I felt fine. No shakes, no dizziness, etc. and ate a steak immediately. After dinner it was 90 and this morning it was 100.

So what went wrong? (slaps head)

I didn't calibrate the new test strip coding to my meter.

What an idiot. All is well now, though.

My rings are spinning on my fingers. I'm annoyed, yet thrilled.

Shelley

[fluffyman]

Glad you figured it out! I have 3 different types of meters, and two do not require calibration. I forget to calibrate the other one once when I opened a new box of strips and got a 500 reading.

At 47 you would definitely have been shaking and sweating and feeling the butterflies. Glad you weren't low. Really glad you didn't panic and eat lots of sugar.

[SMKelly]

OMG, you can't imagine the things that were racing through my head...sure, there was the panic that I was dying, but in a very weird turn, I was MORE worried that my doctor would take me off Atkins and stick me on some portion-controlled, low-cal crap diet and I'd gain all the weight back.

I guess that means I'm fully engrossed in this WOE!

[meow]

LOL, Doctors--what do they know? ;P

[Elizellen]

I am glad you didn't worry about it too long before finding what had caused the low reading

Don't leave it too long to get your rings resized
I thought I had lost one of my treasures a few years back when I noticed I was not wearing it while out shopping. I was sooo relieved to return home after being out a couple of hours to see it still on the ground!! What a lucky escape - so I got it resized the very next day. Nearly lost over a thousand pounds in one day - not an Atkins-loss to be wished for