The good, bad and ugly

Keeping with the last post I have been doing well managing my diabetes.  Keeping sugars in check and exercising on a somewhat regular basis, the motivation still lacks in that department. :(  I have been devoted to checking my sugar at least 4 times a day, or  6 or 10 times somedays.  I am going to have to order more test strips soon. ;)  But despite my diligence, I still feel like I have a lack of information with where my sugars have been.  Like a newbie, I was trusting my old meter to tell me where I was, not using the control solution to make sure that my meter was reading accurately...duh.  It wasn't.  Found that out when I went to my endo and was low...my meter said 84, their meter said 49....besides being low and having a few symptoms like confusion (not the full blown shaky, sweaty, couldn't do simple addition symptoms, I was pissed!  And usually when I am really pissed, I am mostly mad at myself for doing something stupid, something I knew better about.  

Needless to say, I did have another meter at home with new test strips that I was planning on using after I finished up all my old test strips.  I did a little control solution check of my own on the new meter and with the old meter.  With my BG at 125 on the new meter the old meter read 185.  Ugh, how long had it been that far off.  But now I feel confident that we are on track and I know that I wasn't really 95 and feeling low-probably more like 55 or 60 and feeling low.  But my A1C came back at 6.8, so my endo was happy, and I will be interested to see what the A1C comes back next time, since my sugars have been really quite good lately. :)