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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: blood sugar issues lantus and pump use untethered regimen
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My averages are definitely down in the last three days. I'm having a lot more lows, but far fewer highs. And the highs I am having, I can pinpoint generally what caused them (which is a heck of a lot different than last week where I was bouncing around for no apparent reason).
Moving the evening Lantus dose up by a few hours has stopped those evening highs, which I'm extremely grateful for considering those highs are the same ones that start my day off. And beginning and ending my days in the 200's is not my idea of good diabetes management.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food
Tags: food diary weight loss
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I'm always looking for easy, fairly fun ways to control my diet. I usually just keep a running track in my mind of what I've eaten in the past few days. Sometimes this helps me say no to the cookies or the extra servings of something yummy. Other times, it just makes me feel guilty that I can eat so poorly and not seem to care.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Emotions Fitness Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management depression humor Logging
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This is not the post I planned to write this morning.
Having a nearly one-hour commute (everyone flees the city in the summer, so traffic is much, much lighter) often gives me a lot of time to think. This morning I thought about what a crappy mood I had been in on Sunday and that it had carried over to this morning.
I tried to blame it on the kids: a four-day weekend trying to keep the kids entertained and not arguing and generally not getting on my nerves is exhausting.
I tried to blame it on AF: though she has left the building.
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Categories: Type 2 Emotions Real Life
Tags: testing Tracking
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I never meant to take a six-week vacation. It started with the intention of just a few days off. A rest. A break from diabetes and all things that go along with it. Testing, tracking, carb counting and, most obviously to dLife, blogging.
I just needed a few days off. It started around Memorial Day, and here it is the middle of summer and I am completely off track.
So, as of today, as of this moment, I am back.
Although I didn't take my fasting blood sugar this morning, or my medicine at dinner last night, at 9:30 a.m., I will take my two-hour post-breakfast reading. And write it down. On an official form. That I will show my doctor. When I get around to making that July appointment.
Yup, diabetes, I'm back.
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In my perennial bid to lose weight, I joined Sparkpeople. It's a website that lets you track your calories and exercise, gives you menus and recipes and has a forum for support and help. The best bit is that it's free, unlike Weight Watchers, which charges to use a lot of their site. I'm not knocking WW, by the way - I've done that in the past, with great success. I just don't have the money to do it right now.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Relationships Emotions Real Life
Tags: breakthroughs friends tools
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I was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes twenty-five years ago. Twenty-five years is a long time to live with something. It is an especially long time to live with something that requires tight control. Twenty-five years is enough time to have seen lots of bad days, lots of good days, and lots and lots of in betweens. And it is enough time for me to have had the good fortune of seeing vast improvements in access to information and treatment, developments and improvements in technology and even some improvements in (GASP!) what health insurers are willing to cover. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: CGMS
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I guess word didn't get to DexCom that I'm the world's most impatient person.
I really tried to wait patiently until my new contraption arrived, but when it got to be almost past the amount of time I was quoted for shipping, I decided to call.
"Hi, J. I know we had a holiday in there, but we're at the tail end of the three to five business days you said it would take to get my DexCom. So I'm wondering if you can track the package for me so I can know more specifically when to expect it. You have all my numbers…talk to you soon."
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Emotions Real Life
Tags: Logging
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I was having an email conversation with a friend of mine in Ireland. She was diagnosed with MS about a year ago and has been posting on an MS message board - she calls it the Sicko board. She said there is a woman on there that logs every twinge, every ache, every pain, so that she can discuss them with her doctor. My friend asked if I did this for Olivia.
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I don't make resolutions so much. Not because I can't keep them. I've promised myself to eat well, exercise, take the healthy route - and I stick with all of it. But the thing is, making actual resolutions - eh.
But I realized sitting in my living room last night, reading and watching something not all that interesting on TV that I'm missing opportunities. Specifically, this opportunity, at this blog. The opportunity to share my story which might, in turn, help others. I'm just not doing enough of it. And that's a shame. So, I decided to make another loose promise to myself. I'm going to endeavor to write here far more often. Even on days when things might not be going so hot.
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Categories: Type 2 Food Women's Issues
Tags: diet
Views: 1037
Once I started tracking my postpartum blood sugar (and weight), I realized I needed extra help, so I called one member of my diabetes care team I knew I could count on to get results, my dietitian.
I love my dietitian. I say that without a hint of sarcasm. She is awesome and she really knows her stuff. I love her so much that I don't care if insurance won't cover more visits and I have to pay out of pocket. Like a good therapist, she's worth every penny.
Before the visit, I told her what I wanted: A healthy diet that was a little higher in fat and protein, and lower in carbs than the traditional exchange diet. My goal is to manage my blood sugar and lose weight, while consuming enough calories to maintain my milk supply for breastfeeding. It's a delicate balance. Too few calories will hinder milk production, too many calories will hinder weight loss. (READ MORE)
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