Not-superb BGs on a superb train journey
Into central Tōhoku (despite a ticketing disaster) • Fukushima & Yamagata
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On today’s series of six trains through Fukushima and Yamagata Prefectures in Japan, my blood sugar was pretty up and down.
Sunrise in Aizu-Wakamatsu
Varied is good when you’re talking about scenery; not so good when it’s BGs.
Breakfast
I woke up and was already a bit high around 8 am in my hotel in Aizu-Wakamatsu: 207. A good insulin shot, breakfast buffet, and walk to the station didn’t really help. The post-breakfast spike was in the mid 200s and required a corrective Humalog shot on board.
It worked. Around 11 am I was finally below 200 and by the time of my late lunch around 2:30 pm, I was 111.
Somehow though, a big spike followed and haunted the rest of the journey.
A few hours later, I arrived at my final stop, Sakata, and checked into my hotel. At 6 pm I checked and the CGM said 279. I was so surprised that I verified it with my Japanese finger-stick meter, which was 251.
Pretty much the same, given the margin of error. Sighing, I found a convenience store dinner and took a significantly large shot for it all. That did better; in the evening I was under 200 the entire time and was about 130 through the night.
And, it was a CGM sensor-changing night; two weeks starts now. Maybe with the new one will come new diabetic luck…?
