Thanksgiving Day Dexcom Review

Let’s take it back a few days to Thanksgiving Eve and how I planned out my attack against my diabetes.

It all started with taking about 50% more Tresiba at night. Why did I do this? Well, I knew that I would need an increased basal the next day, so, why the hell not?

When I woke up in the morning, my BG was what it normally is in the morning, around 220. And it did what it does every morning, it shot up.

For breakfast, we had sausage, biscuits and gravy, a Thanksgiving tradition. Of course, it made my sugar spike up, I already knew it would do that.

So, I waited until about 3 PM and knew that we were going to eat around 4:30 to take my massive action.

I took a pre, pre-bolus for Thanksgiving dinner. It was a bit of a correction and a bit of a get ahead of the curve. This is exactly what my plan was.

Right before dinner, my BG was about 88 with a diagonal arrow down.

AWESOME.

Exactly what I wanted.

I started to eat, whatever I wanted and after my first plate, I then bolused for that plate and my next plate of course.

Everything was good until dessert time. That’s when I forgot to bolus for the ice cream.

I’m not a pie guy, so I didn’t think that I was even going to eat dessert, so that’s why I wasn’t thinking about bolusing. But, when I saw the ice cream was there, it was time to eat it.

I don’t think that I went above 250 at all on Thanksgiving and that was my goal.

All in all, it was a good day.