Day of steady
I had to go to class, and I got up at the crack-ass of dawn; 5am (ug)

What was surpising is that disipte only getting 6 hours of sleep, I managed to stay awake the entire class, until right afterwards, when I *crashed*. Thankfully the super was driving this time so I just slept till home. Then went to bed at 7p and slept till 9am. Also what was surpising, is that my memory, and speed of thinking was much better too.

What I did, it seems is by drinking all day; the caffene free diet pepsi (the only diet drink I can drink long-term) I kept my BGs steady. Which according to doctors is one of the reasons for the crashes we get. Of course, it still kept rising; (sigh) but it seemed more steady. I've been hitting far too high on my maximum insulian resistent periods (MIP) - 125 or so lately Too dammed high. I'm getting it back under control though. I think I'm finally fully hydrated, I've started a cinnimon regiment. Found that the 1/4 teaspoon of cinnimon in yogart is really good. I could never find anything to put it in, on a daily basis. It will NOT mix with water so tea's out of the question. Anyone have any good ideas for this? If it takes about 30 days to fully kick in, then it'll be about the 15 or so of May before I can see a real result. If it does kick in, I'll use it for the MIP to cut that back.

I'm also going to start eating more regularly. I've now set my alarm to ring at 12noon, 2:30p, 4:30p, 6:30p, 8:30p, and 10:30p. That is the 6x a day, plus one (10:30p) for the 'protection' of hypog, and dawn effect.

What I found with drinking diet, caffene free pepsi is that it helps. Water, and tea will just go right though me. But it seems that DCF Pepsi is slower. Maybe it has to be digested, I'm not sure really. But it doesn't go though me as fast, and keeps my BGs lower, or steady. At least it's not the caffene that kept me awake :). I do need to try others. I know that A&W rootbeer, 7-up, sprite also are caffene free. But sprite when it gets hot has a 'pasty' feel to my mouth. diet cafeene free mt. dew is nearly impossible to find anywhere outside of big stores.

ahhh good. This may be of help : http://www.energyfiend.com/the-caffeine-database/

JEZZZ...some are insane! One I saw had 320 mg of caffeine! That'd kill me!

I know what to stay away from now :)