Is it normal for your blood sugar ups and downs to make no sense?

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So, other day I woke up with my blood sugar at 335, had an herbal cough drop because I was coughing my head off, my blood sugar went up 30 points from a cough drop. Today, I wake up with a blood sugar reading of 225, not too bad. I ate a full meal, decide to allow myself a fudge square and a normal soda because I was craving them (Don't do that often but denying yourself constantly isn't a mentally healthy thing to do so allowed myself the treat.) well, tested a bit afterwards, blood sugar is at 202 now. This makes no darned sense. A cough drop makes it jump 30 points but fudge and a normal cola and it drops?! Is this normal with diabetes? Or is my body just a few levels of confused?

(Don't chastise me bout having some things with sugar. It's a rare treat. Even diabetics are human and, as humans, we all do things we technically shouldn't sometimes. We just shouldn't do them often.)

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  • Hateful1
    6 years ago

    You need to talk to someone. If your levels are that high when you wake up and through out the day you might need medication.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      6 years ago

      On medication, it's not doing jack. Gonna be trying something else after my next appointment.

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  • bubsy
    6 years ago

    An unsteady blood sugar level is par for the course with diabetics. What's important to know, especially when dieting, is that blood sugar spikes induce cravings (hunger for food that isn't actually needed by the body).

    That's why 0-calorie diet sodas are so terrible for losing weight. If I were you, OP, assuming you're hopelessly addicted to sugar, I'd try to push back all sugary snacks until an hour or so before dinner.

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    • Anonymous Post Author
      6 years ago

      The dinner thing is kinda hard. Due to some GI issues I can only eat once a day so kinda don't have the whole breakfast, lunch, dinner thing. I just try to avoid too much sugar, I've actually never really been a fan of sweets, it's just a once in a while thing. What I am addicted to is caffeine, with my fibromyalgia caffeine is about the most energy I get, and I can't stand coffee sadly. It's seriously hard to find a safe caffeine source.

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      • bubsy
        6 years ago

        If you can't stand coffee, go with caffeine pills. That + a large glass of water is the healthiest way to go.

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        • Anonymous Post Author
          6 years ago

          Yeah, kinda been thinking bout trying caffeine pills. Wanna do more research on them first since some producers are a bit shady. I try to watch what goes into my body, I'm not the best at it but I try. XD

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