Forget the Groundhog....

Brendon's glucose numbers are the indicator that Spring is here!

Every year since he was diagnosed, at the coming of Spring, his numbers are insanely high for no other reason than the apparent change in season. It's occured when he was on shots and on the pump.

It also happens at the change of the other three seasons, but it's more prolonged and severe at Spring. For the past few weeks (as it does every year at this time), at a couple of different times each day, Brendon has been getting numbers in the 300's. Lately, those numbers have been increasing in frequency and have even risen to the 400's. Those numbers don't always occur at the same time of the day, so making adjustments in his basal rates can be a bit tricky. It also takes quite a bit of extra insulin to bring those numbers down.

We brought this up a couple of times to his endo and nurse educator during the times he had appointments at this time of the year (when they questioned why his numbers were so out of whack) and they looked at us like we were crazy (Brendon's endo is Type 1 and has admitted that she goes through high and low cycles, but doesn't believe the change in seasons is the cause).

Brendon typically wakes up with a great number, but lately it's been in the mid 200's, so this morning, because that is the only time his numbers are consistent from day to day, Jeff made a change in his early morning basal rate.

Lunch and dinner numbers vary in range from day to day, but if one isn't high, then the other will be.

All of these topsy turvy changes last for weeks. Now I'm just waiting for that point where, with all of our increases in basal and/or bolus's, he comes crashing down when his rhythms go back to where they were before the seasonal change.