Cheeseburger nightmares

For those of you playing at home, I have been trying to test out the limits of my pancreas to see if I really need the insulin I've been injecting. If you read my last post, you'll see I had just finished a cheeseburger and fries and my BGL had shot up, and I was getting some pretty strong palpitations. Unfortunately, my BGL stayed elevated for 3 hours and those palpitations lasted all night.

The graph above is the last 3 days BGLs, the first spikes was the cheeseburger. You can see my BGL had returned to an *OK* number by morning, though not a normal fasting BGL (the trick is to always aim for NORMAL BGLs... and don't let anyone tell you otherwise!). While a vanilla DE (diabetes educator) would love these numbers (all under 10.0, none dropping very low) I was too happy. Worse than that with each meal I was getting a sudden hit of adrenaline about 10-15 minutes after eating causing very uncomfortable palpitations and a really irritability that bordered on a panic attack.

Not-so-good while it lasted

By the time this morning roll around, I thought I had better jump back on the wagon and get back to a low carb diet and see if that was the cause of my adrenals going mental. I had some scrambled eggs with butter and crème fraîche (oo fancy!) and set off to work. I didnt get palpitations straight away, but about half an hour later I was getting that uncomfortable feeling in my chest. Bugger, time to admit defeat and take some insulin (even though I only got up to about 7.7). I then spent the day wrestling my numbers into line. Tonight I had a family Christmas dinner and had a little wine and cheesecake and other naughty (but nice) treats. I spiked a little (8.8) but did not get the palpitations.

Thoughts

What have I learned? Still nothing conclusive. All I know is that I can't cover even simple low carb meals with my own insulin stores, but that still doesn't prove anything regarding my type 1/2 conundrum. Where to now? Start up on the insulin again *sigh* and wait until after Christmas this hit up my GP to see what tests he can think of. Maybe another glucose tolerance test but this time with c-peptides or insulin levels. I'm not sure. I just want to get a really good picture of what's going on to inform me of my treatment options. I don't want to take metformin unless I need to, just like I don't want to have to take insulin unless necessary.