Fasting Blood Sugars

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(for all the other diabetics out there who I'm sure hate fasting blood sugars too!!)

why do they ask

a diabetic

to fast for 14 hour blood sugars

I mean I understand

they need to know

if your sugars are managed

but don't they know

how miserable fasting can be?

I eat every two hours

not a whole meal

not a lot

but something

and if I miss a meal

or am late eating

I get the shakes

I get really, really BITCHY

and cranky

I can also get dizzy, weak 

and an upset tummy

and then...

other things that we don't want to discuss

this may happen if I have gone an extra hour or two

past my eating schedule

can you imagine what happens

when I have not eaten 

for 14 hours!?

fasting blood sugars SUCK

and I wish there was another way

to get this information

I'm taking

Diamicron (gliclazide)

Metformin

and Insulin

every day

morning sugars can already be a 5

so when I fast

I wake up in a LOW

VERY low

I am fasting after dinner

and tomorrow will be an ordeal!

Find another way to get

fasting blood sugars!!!

New Challenge

{Post 168/365: Original Post: SuckstoBeMe}

Well, the thing I have been dreading has finally happened. 
I will be starting to take insulin as soon as I can make an appt with the Dr. and get him to write my prescription for the pen. :( 
I am also showing at 27 and in Stage 4 which disturbs me a little. No matter how much I wish it, it seems there is no stopping the progression of the disease. It is slowly going down hill. For the longest time I was right on the line between Stage 3 and Stage 4 and I was hopeful I could stay there a long time. 
It is difficult to do all the things I have to do. Eat right, exercise, be positive, keep trying, keep moving forward, not give up, not give in. 
Don't drink. 
Don't do this, don't do that. Bahhhhhhhhhhhh! 
Maybe one good thing is it will be a 24 hour insulin so I will only have to inject myself once a day. I hope it helps. 
I'm feeling sad today. :(