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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: CGMS insurance
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I was a little shocked, actually, to have gotten a real answer instead of a blow off "It's in medical review" answer.
My pump rep and my endo's nurse have jumped through hoops giving my insurance company the information it needs/wants in regard to approving my CGMS claim. I thought there was going to be a conversation between the insurance folks and my doctor's office, not just a flat out "No." I really thought that giving them all this information and stressing that I have hypo unawareness would surely make them say yes. Like I said, I was shocked.
I have mixed feelings about this. On one hand I'm still ready for a fight. I've called my pump rep to fill him in and see where we go from here--not to say, "I give up, thanks for trying." On this hand I feel a little angry that they have all this information detailing medical necessity and still say no. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management CGMS
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Someone should have taken a picture: my dad and I checking our sugar roughly two hours after we ate Thanksgiving. He: 114. Me: 86.
"You must have overestimated your insulin," Mom said.
"Yes, but I'll spike later," I said.
Sure enough, an hour later I was 206. Would have been nice to have had a CGMS on my side for Thanksgiving. Between the smooth mashed potatoes, stuffing, pumpkin pie and pumpkin cheesecake Thursday was not only a carb fest but a complex-carb fest leaving me hanging out in the upper 200s for most of the Thanksgiving evening no matter how much insulin I doled out (actually, I listened to my pump's recommendations in an effort to avoid a low).
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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Emotions Real Life
Tags: CGMS continuous glucose monitoring system
Views: 677
It's strange sometimes how the tide can shift so quickly. Where I was this time last week is not where I am today. I've gone from thinking my endo was off his rocker to even consider me as a candidate for the pump, to going full-tilt toward pump therapy.
When B. first told me about MiniMed's pump with the integrated CGMS I really poo-pooed the idea, telling him that although I have high and low swings, I didn't feel like I was "bad enough" to warrant having a CGMS. I pay attention to my body, I test when I'm feeling low, etc. (It's that "I'm 'only' type 2" mentality.) (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management CGMS
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55, 48, 35. These numbers mean nothing really until you see them on the One Touch after testing because you feel a little off. Not low, just a little off. Or maybe you don't even feel off, you're just testing because you're about to eat lunch. These are the moments (like this one!) you start shoveling Skittles down your throat because the second you see that low is when you start to feel it. And it feels like s%$t!! (It's not easy to type when you're low, by the way.)
Happens on the other side of the spectrum for me, too. Sure there are times when cotton mouth, fatigue and a hideous headache clue me in to a ridiculous high, but there are just as many times when I feel perfectly fine and I find that I'm well over 200 or 300.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management CGMS
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Caller ID said "Nevada." I don't know anyone in Nevada. Last time my caller ID indicated a state in which I don't know anyone, I took a chance and it was a sales call. A flippin' sales call on my cell phone. But, I answered Nevada anyway. Good thing I did because it was the Dexcom rep for my area returning my call. (This poor guy is in Las Vegas and his territory covers Vegas, Phoenix and north to Montana or some other "M" state.)
He asked me about my situation and why I wanted to try a CGMS. I told him I had been a pumper since January and that I had tried the MiniMed CGMS earlier this year and liked it but couldn't get my insurance to cover it and decided to give up after continued denials. I told him about my hypo- and hyper-unawareness and that I wanted something that will clue me in to where I am between tests.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: CGMS
Views: 471
It's the end of the week.
He said I'd know something by the end of the week.
I called Monday. I called today. I don't know anything yet.
I know that his territory covers three enormous states, but doesn't he know that he's dealing with the world's most impatient person?
I really thought that by calling on Monday he'd have called by now. But nothing.
I'll be a pest and call tomorrow, too. I know, so not likely to be productive, but I want to know what I'm dealing with.
A potential complication, though, is my decision not to be seen at Mayo anymore. You have to have a doctor sign off on the prescription, which makes sense. And with me technically not being seen by M2 anymore, she can't sign off on it.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: CGMS Health Insurance
Views: 843
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 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions In the News Fitness Women's Issues Men's Issues Real Life
Tags: CGMS complications Health Care
Views: 933
I want to be healthy. I want to live as long as I can. I want to be complication free. I want to not have diabetes.
3 of those 4 statements above I can actually do something about. I can watch what I eat, exercise, and check my blood sugar all the time. I cannot cure myself but if I can take care of the other three then I would be doing pretty good in my book.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Relationships Real Life
Tags: extreme low blood sugar
Views: 684
It had been more than a week since I had talked to Mom. This is nearly unheard of in our world, but it does occasionally happen. My busy life with three kids and their busy retirement life are the culprits.
So last night when Dad called to see if I knew about my brother's trip to Korea encountering problem after problem that eventually required him to come home to Missouri from Seattle, I was finally able to catch Mom up on what's going on in our lives.
"Did you know No. 2 has a double ear infection," I asked her.
"No, no didn't know that," she said.
"No. 3 is recovering nicely from her upper respiratory nastiness, but The Mr. is still battling a rough cough," I told her.
"OK, OK. And how are things going with the pump?" she wanted to know. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: CGMS insurance
Views: 347
Last week, I started a blog entry:
An Internal Battle
Why do I want a CGMS? Right now, I'm not so sure. There have been numerous points in the last year where I've said how much better my quality of life would be if I had some more diabetes technology. There have been other points this year when I've said, you know I'm not sure my return on investment here is worth it.
I had intended to work on that entry over the weekend, but couldn’t find the words past this paragraph. One day last week I had really considered calling the medical-supply company I’m working with to get the DexCom to tell them to just forget it. And pretty quickly I decided not to, to allow myself to have access to the best technology to treat my disease. I decided to just let it go and see what happens.
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