Questions & Answers

I have been looking for a good rheumatologist and unfortunately the ones In have contacted are not taking new patients. It's scary that this seems to be a scarce resource.

If I eat a small snack when I get up to pee in the middle of the night-my fbg is usually substantially lower in the morning. At the same time, I need to lose more weight. If I save 100 calories or so at the end of the day, for a small "middle of the night snack" I could still maintain my daily 1500 calorie allowance. (By eating only 1400 calories) Just not sure if it would be a healthy habit to continue.

So the past 2 weeks my routine has flipped since going back to work overnights (graveyard shift) I met with my diabetes educator/nutritionist and have learned that it is way harder on the pancreas and liver with this backwards schedule.
Does anyone else work graveyard shift and have any tips or tools to utilize

OK here goes. Aaron woke up early to a fbs Libre 6.3 (113) finger stick 6.1 (110), Angele gave him breakfast. I woke up and chating with them asking what time he ate, turns out it was 4 hrs, so I tried telling him he has to eat at least every 4 hrs or his sugar levels might drop, so seeing we have a Libre on him we checked and it was 5.0 (90), he tried getting up from bed but got dizzy. I told him yes 5.0 is good, but his body was above 50 (900) 5 weeks ago, while trying to convince him to eat… read more