BG lows on the Sea of Japan coast
A Sea of Japan bucket list train experience • San'in & Kyōtango
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Today I rode a series of trains along the coast of the Sea of Japan in Tottori, Hyōgo, and Kyōto Prefectures. Aside from the usual breakfast spike, it was low BGs that dominated the day, if anything.
The day began, really, around 4:45 am, when my CGM woke me up with a low alarm. I have it set to 80, so I catch it before it gets too bad. I had some glucose and went back to sleep.
Breakfast in Tottori
By 7:30, when I got up for breakfast in my hotel in Tottori, I was 149. The breakfast buffet was pretty standard, and I checked out and began my train ride journey for the day.
At 10:00 am I was 258, having drifted up there after breakfast. So I took a couple units of Humalog and over an hour or two I glided down.
The thing is, as I walked around the Yūhigaura-Kitsu-Onsen Station area, where I had two hours to kill, the exercise and the corrective Humalog teamed up against me.
I had some glucose, feeling low, but when I returned to the station after a somewhat long and sweaty walk (with my heavy backpack on the whole time), I was a mere 100.
But I knew it was a “falling” 100, so I drank ice-cold carbonated water and had a matcha-flavored chocolate cookie from a nearby convenience store. It had about 11g of carbs, and was enough to prevent an actual low – an hour later I was 107.
Ramen for dinner in Higashi-Maizuru
Dinner was a bit tough – I was in the low 90s, but felt like it wasn’t going to be coming up. I had ramen from a nearby restaurant to my hotel, but waited until after eating to actually take insulin.
It worked out – no post-dinner spike, and the rest of the evening and all night as I slept, it was very even, around 95.
