Well the grand CGMS trial of July 2008 has come to an abrupt end. After a lot of beeping in the night, then a hard core RPM class (spinning by another name) this morning, I got my twist ties at the ready and prepared for the shower routine in the changing room – only to find that the insertion was 3/4 of the way out. I have to give the unit back to the hospital this afternoon anyway so pulled it all the way out.
The good news is I got up this morning (at 5.20am, ouch) with a BM of 8.9 which is actually pretty good for me (despite the nurse who scolded me on the phone when my last tests came in, clearly reading the guidelines word for word that it should be between 3.5 and 5.6).
The bad news is that I’ve failed to replicate the crazy high blood sugars of yester-week and month, and I’m unsure if we’ll get much insight from the results. No ‘exaggerated dawn phenomenon’ in sight!!
Still, I’m very grateful for the opportunity to do the trial, and I hope something useful will come from it. I hope to have some revelations next week.
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Anonymous wrote
I have two thoughts on your ‘lack of results’ for this Nic.
1) Whenever someone is looking the problem vanishes just so you look like and idiot and were lying the whole time and
2)It’s makes me think of the observers paradox – the mere act of focusing your attention on the material changes the interactions and moves away from a natural result.
I found the same thing with a recent BG monitoring program that I’m undertaking as part of a funding process for an insulin pump (given that no-one can afford the things and public fund is non-existant GRR).
P.S. 3.5 to 5.6 my ass. I bet that nurse’s BGs aren’t even in that range!