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Posted 3/9/2013 2:33 PM (GMT 0)
Does anyone else notice a correlation between the season and their glucose levels? My BGL was inexplicably up about 10-15 points Nov - Feb. This week it went back down to the "normal" level. Suddenly. One day it's 120, the next it's 105 and has stayed in that range all week. I'm not doing anything different, but then I looked back and saw the same pattern last year. Up in the winter, down as the days get longer.

Apparently in addition to dawn phenomenon I also have winter phenomenon?

Posted 3/9/2013 3:56 PM (GMT 0)
Judy, I live in Houston Texas. We moved here from east Texas. In East Texas I could tell the seasons of the year by my allergies which equated to my blood sugar readings fluctuating with how many times I coughed or sneezed. In Houston Texas the gulf breezes, mountain cedar blowing in from West Texas AND the seasons mess up my allergies = blood sugar readings. So yes sadly I am a predictor of weather and seasons by the fluctuations of my readings. Ironically, if we are out on the gulf in our boat, the breeze on the water clears my head. So definitely I believe our environment affects our readings.

Before retirement I was an elementary school teacher. I could also predict a change in the weather by the student's hyper-activity. Their bodies were smaller and more susceptible to the changes. If weather fronts changing can affect healthy kids, why wouldn't we believe that our surroundings affect us too?
Posted 3/9/2013 3:56 PM (GMT 0)
I don't know about your case, but I know my readings are higher because of the holidays. I do eat some food I would normally never eat during the rest of the year and because of schedules and events, I don't do as much physically during that time.

Your good news is that your blood sugar will go back down after the cold weather, it seems. That's great! yeah
Posted 3/9/2013 10:50 PM (GMT 0)
You know when the seasons and time changes here in Canada, just ask my wife I am a yo-yo mostly down, my bosses at work knew about it nono
Posted 3/18/2013 2:29 PM (GMT 0)
Right now my stomach as been acting up for a while now and is causing me some concern because it is causing chest pain also, also with the pump I don't seem to run into the lows that much at this time of the year
Posted 3/18/2013 3:13 PM (GMT 0)
Will, chest pain? Are you going to the doctor?
Posted 3/19/2013 7:28 PM (GMT 0)
Tomorrow
Posted 3/22/2013 1:23 PM (GMT 0)
Doctor says it is just the left over effect of the Bronchitis I had while on hollidays
Posted 3/23/2013 12:55 AM (GMT 0)
!  I hope so!  Thanks for the update.
Posted 3/23/2013 2:51 PM (GMT 0)
Yea so do I Lanie, but I am no Doctor
Posted 3/23/2013 7:52 PM (GMT 0)
He also took me off the Nitro patch because it wasn't working for me and put me on pills, think it was because of it had to go on my stomach where I use to take my needle and where I hook up my pump maybe my stomach is too finicky
Posted 3/24/2013 12:56 AM (GMT 0)
I hope this helps and that you're getting better. 
Posted 3/24/2013 3:41 PM (GMT 0)
Seems to be
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