Can I just say that there is nothing, NOTHING more annoying than having high blood sugar when it isn’t your fault?

The last couple of days I’ve had strangely high numbers after taking enough (and sometimes more than enough) insulin, but not every single time, and I wasn’t sure if it was because of exhaustion / jet lag / new country / resting versus exercise / malaria medication / any other number of permutations that could make my blood sugar go high.

This morning, though, I ate a very normal breakfast (fruit, cereal, eggs) and took more than the necessary amount of insulin, thinking that if I went low I have plenty of snacks in my room. But instead of going low I am high. Abnormally high. Which means the last couple of days of bad blood glucose readings weren’t my fault – my insulin isn’t working 100%.

GRRRRR!!!

It’s the equivalent of getting a hangover without drinking anything – all the punishment without any of the fun.

And yes, I’ve put this one insulin pen through a lot in the last two weeks – travelling from the heat and humidity of Bangkok to the autumn sun of Vienna, via over 10 hours on a plane, and then back again, then on a long train and a long bus and in the flooded heat of Siem Reap. Perhaps this is too much to ask of a poor insulin pen… It’s used to staying in a stable temperature and environment, I can understand that.

But it still makes me mad!! I’m t.i.r.e.d today. And part of that is definitely because we’ve been traveling so much. But part of it is also because I’ve been high for the last few days, and I had to wait this long to figure out why.

Not my favourite diabetic moment.