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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Complications Real Life
Tags: CGMS use financial cost of diabetes sensor problems
Views: 1048
When I inserted the first sensor on Saturday, I thought it might give me a little trouble. It'd been through a lot in the last months (traveling around in my "everyday" case and moving from fridge to backpack to suitcase multiple times). It looked old, it looked like it wouldn't work. But I gave it a shot anyway.
And my suspicions were confirmed. It gave me two error messages before showing me a steady level in the 50's when I was perfectly okay. Instead of messing with a crazy sensor and wondering about its accuracy for days, I changed it out. I had an entire new box of them anyway and I don't use them often enough to be upset on throwing one out.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: CGMS Health Insurance
Views: 1862
I don't think I've ever been more undecided about a health-care issue than I am right now.
To DexCom or not to DexCom?
Last week, I wrote that I was up in arms about my insurance company saying it wouldn't pay for the DexCom sensors because my policy doesn't have "disposable coverage" and that I was going to fight for the coverage. Today has been a pretty good day, and I've been thinking that I don't really need a CGMS.
I know, that's totally weird coming from someone who has been saying for months how beneficial the system would be to my life.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: awareness bad habits blind bolusing diabetes goals
Views: 1906
Throughout my diabetes life, I've developed some bad habits. I'm a perfectionist and hate having them linger over my diabetes. I've decided that I need to break these bad habits if I truly want to excel on my pump and in life. I'm at a point where I realize all the great things I'm looking forward to: establishing a career, starting a family, building my dream home. I don't want to miss one second of my future because I made poor decisions with my diabetes. So I'm challenging myself to make a list of the five habits of my diabetes life and work on curbing each one: (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: bad habits logbooks Logging skipping boluses
Views: 901
For the past few years, I've gotten into the bad diabetes habit of skipping boluses. Not food boluses. But blood sugar boluses. I have the habit of foregoing boluses when my blood sugar is 160 and under. I'll see a 140 or 155 and skip the bolus instead of bringing it down to 100. But above 160, I'm good about bolusing to bring the number down (something about those 180s and 200s scare me into submission).
I know that this extremely bad habit leaves my averages a little higher than they should be. And I'm not sure exactly why I do this...maybe over the years, a 150 doesn't seem so bad. Maybe I just get tired of so many injections a day so I leave off the "unnecessary" ones. Maybe it's some habit that I started in my childhood.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: blind bolusing guilt perfectionism
Views: 1387
Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Highs & Lows Complications Emotions Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: driven emotions fit food Good Days motivated
Views: 1483
As much as I complain or write emotional entries about this disease, I do have my days where I am thankful. Today is one of those days. I have to say that without diabetes I would lack some major motivation! I have to remind myself that without this disease I wouldn't be so motivated to stay healthy or be the person that I am. It's funny, because at any given time I could be feeling completely irritated by it or absolutely thankful. Because of Diabetes mellitus I am fit, driven, and obsessed with good food!
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Categories: Type 1
Tags: emotions Highs type 1
Views: 6595
Logging. It is something every diabetic should do. It is important in terms of identifying patterns and making decisions about dosing - and it is vital to figuring out when you need to be paying more attention and where your problem areas are in the course of a day. I remember the bad old days of handwritten logbooks. They were cumbersome and not at all useful, even when they were kept up and brought to the doctor. Technology has come a long way and there are many great tools available for logging everything we need to be tracking. But, for me at least, logging is still an excruciating task. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Complications In the News Real Life
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Views: 1399
I'm finally getting around to catching up on my reading. In October, Diabetes Care reported that for some people with diabetes, the care is worse than the illness itself. You can read about it here.
Apparently, almost 20 percent of those surveyed said they'd rather die 8 to 10 years early and avoid treatments.
Not me. I'd rather have pinpricks in my fingers and needles in my belly, and keep my eyes, legs and kidneys in working order. Sure, it would be better to not have diabetes, but these are the cards I've been dealt and I'm just gonna have to deal with it. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Complications Real Life
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Views: 735
This week has not been one of the better ones I've had recently. And those of you who follow me on twitter already know what I'm referring to.
I wound up in the hospital for a few days after I started having chest pain and shortness of breath late Saturday night. Not knowing whether I was really having a heart attack or if it was just another severe reflux attack, I played it smart and went to get checked out. I was there from shortly after 12:00 a.m. Sunday morning until around 5:00 p.m. Tuesday.
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Categories: Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Emotions Fitness Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: Metformin Weight Gain weight loss Weight Watchers
Views: 1885
Which would you like to hear first? I guess I'll start with the bad news and get my whining out of the way first. The scale is up this week. Granted it's only half a pound, but the frustrating part is I have been working so hard at this. I've been following Weight Watchers faithfully since Thanksgiving and I've only lost about 2 and a half pounds. What's worse is I'm starting to begrudge people at the meeting who lose more than that each week. Selfish, isn't it?
In reviewing my diet, exercise and lifestyle, I'm even more annoyed because I'm eating less food (and healthier food, at that), exercising more, drinking water and even getting more sleep than I had been. But I'm still not losing. What do I need to do? I'm open to all suggestions, except "be patient." I don't do well with patience. (READ MORE)
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