Endo Confession - Something Bad I Used To Do.

I just wanted to confess something pretty bad I used to do. So when I was 12-16 years old I didn't have the motivation to test my Blood Glucose level often so I ended up having 1 BG test per day or less, and they wouldn't be good BGs either. To add to this I would be terrified of getting told off by my strict parents and endo during the appointment when they download the results from the meter, and see how infrequent they were.

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So, my cunning teenage self came up with a clever workaround to my anxiety inducing problem... The night before the appointment I would wait until my BG level was in a good range, and then I would change the date/time of my meter and test my BG for each day in the past month, rinse repeat, rinse repeat. I would continue this until an additional 75-100 records had been added for the past 2 months. Yes my fingers were sore... So, when they downloaded the data it looked like I'd taken multiple readings per day in range, which was far from true.

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During the appointments the endos were always completely baffled as to why my sugar levels were being recorded as excellent, and yet my HBA1C was around 8.5%-9%.

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I'm not sure whether I should be proud of myself for being so cunning or should have been more open. I was a scared teenager what can I say. I think endos should make a point of being more understanding, I've no doubt many others were anxious about their appointments and so weren't completely honest, perhaps not to my level of deception...

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Don't worry about me now, I have a pump and G6 using the OpenAPS closed loop on a keto diet and my HBA1C is 6.1%!