INSULIN POTENCY

INSULIN:    I HAVE JUST RECEIVED A SHOCK.  

For awhile now I've been having trouble with 'spiking blood sugars'.  I'm going along fine, and suddenly I'm having occasional very high blood sugars.  I battle it down the entire day and then a week or so later, I have a problem. again. I was noticing spikes more at the end of the month and began looking at the calendar thinking I was going out at that time to eat, or doing more 'noshing' or whatever.    The calendar didn't reveal anything.  

After a visit to the doctor with a report of a very high A1c, I went home figuring 

"Well, this is how my body is going to end.  It's not responding to care anymore".

I figured I'd make another survey of everything I was doing just as I did when I was a teenager and had an infection.  The doctor said to examine all my procedures and see if there was anything I was neglecting.  In those days, I hadn't  been boiling  the glass syringe and needles long enough.  Problem solved.  

I checked each procedure.  Oh no, I was using my vial of insulin too long!  What a shock!  It made perfect sense!  End of the month problems with spikes.  

Then I was upset because let's face it.  A vial of insulin costs $250 and if I was going to use only 1/4 or so of the bottle, sometimes half, wow!  What a loss.  Started berating the system and then decided to look up everything.  (I would have gotten to that eventually).

Looks like Eli Lily may sell a 3ML vial and in calling my drugstore, find that for 3 of them is only about $70.  I will have to examine the doses and amounts and with due diligence here, can resolve this problem.  I'm afraid I have neglected staying on point with the daily 'nitty gritty' of things.  

I'm also checking on ordering from Canada as drugs are so much less expensive there.  

I'll let you know how this all goes.  I'm expecting it to go well.  

As I've said in some of m sat blogs, Diabetes gets tiring.  Sometimes I just want to get away from it.  That's what makes me often, just do my daily work with it and not explore more options regarding it.   I've been doing this for 70 years (since age 5) and I'm just a liiiiiiittttttle tired!  

Well not going on and on about that.  Just saying , see you again.