Why do I have to keep records of my insulin dosage and blood sugar levels?
When people come to me with their diabetes it's very hard for me to know how to fix it unless I know what's been happening, and the way I learn from my patients what's been happening is for them to provide me with information to show me how much insulin they gave, how much they ate, whether they exercised, if they were sick. There's all sorts of variables that can affect blood sugar levels that help me adjust insulin in any given patient. And what I tell patients to do, patients hate to keep records day in, day out. I mean I can't imagine having to write down what I eat every day, but I think that I could do it for three or four days, so what I tell people to do is just before your going to go see your health care provider take a couple of days and just write down what you're doing and how your blood sugars are and everything else, and they can look at them and they can say, "Gee, your breakfast dose of insulin is fine, but your lunchtime is too much", and then you can get really helpful adjustments in your insulin, and that makes it a very useful interaction.
