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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management Traveling vacation
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"So what should we take with us in the RV," I asked No. 3 as I drove her to the sitter one day last week.
"Um, cereawl and hot dogs and... um... oh! your blood sugar."
"Yes, my blood sugar supplies," I said almost as if I had forgotten.
"And skeetles and juice for you," she said.
"Yes, in case I go low. You're right." Such a good caregiver.
I forgot so many things packing for the RV trip, but insulin, pump supplies, test strips and alcohol swabs were not one of them. I was surprised, actually.
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Categories: Type 2 Complications Real Life
Tags: sick
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It's bad enough to get sick-any kind of sick-but add diabetes into the mix and you can have a real problem on your hands.
I've been sick only a handful of times since I was diagnosed. And when I say sick, I mean the kind of sick that keeps you from eating and leaves you laid up in bed for a couple days. It wasn't long after I was diagnosed that one of the kids got sick and I kept wondering when it would hit me. And then I realized that I literally didn't know what to do with myself if I did get sick. I didn't know what to expect from my blood sugar or how to manage it. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: Sick Days
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Sick days are usually rough when you're trying to manage blood sugars. Whether it's a cold or a stomach bug, the stress, medicine, and unusual food intake can really wreak havoc on controlling levels.
Satuday morning, I came down with a stomach virus. This is the second one I've had this year, so I feel like I'm an expert at managing blood sugars when I can't keep anything down for hours.
I don't really keep an active sick day plan. I usually just make changes as needed. Being on the pump has made being sick so much easier since I can decrease or increase basals as necessary and prolong boluses just in case I can't keep food down.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Relationships Complications Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
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It's my time...to plan phase 2 of my healthcare team.
I'm a girl. A 21-year-old girl. A girl who has spent the last year listening to friend's talk about engagements, attending weddings of high school pals, and buying baby shower gifts for my already-coupled friends. Sometimes it feels like everywhere I turn, someone else is getting engaged or married or growing their family.
All that means that my mind is constantly confronted with the fact that potential coupledom and familyhood is in my future. That means I spend a lot of time thinking about this future, with these couples and families of my imagination. My mind trails in daydreams to consider the kind of guy I want to marry, getting pregnant, and growing old together.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Women's Issues Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management CGMS insulin pump sick
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I'm the kind of person who, no matter how horrible I feel, at least attempts to get out of bed to go to work. It's a philosophy that stems from my childhood when my parents told us that if we weren't barfing and didn't have a fever we were going to school. If we still felt bad after we got there then we could call them and we'd talk.
It's a philosophy that has served me well. At least I think so. And I've happily passed this philosophy on to my children. I don't think I'll ever forget the day that No. 1 woke up with an upset stomach and I told him he at least had to try to eat breakfast. Yeah, he barfed. Nice job, Michelle!
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Categories: Type 2 Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: advice blood sugar testing
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"What's the best diabetes advice you've ever been given," Kerri asked the other day.
As a health writer, one of the perks of my job is that I get to talk to experts. One of the questions I often ask is, "What is the best advice you'd give someone with diabetes?"
And of all the interviews I have done, I think the best response came from Linda Dale, RN, CDE, Clinical Nurse Specialist in the Outpatient Diabetes Eduction Program at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Diabetes Center. The article was about testing your blood sugar.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Real Life
Tags: children learning to test blood sugar
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Baby’s Firsts
The first time you ...
held a bottle - 8 months
turned over - 4 months
crawled - 8 months
wore shoes - 10 months
sat unsupported - 7 months
stood up - 9 months
took first step alone - 13 months
tested your own blood sugar - 90 months
When you’re waiting anxiously for your baby to begin crawling or walking or become potty trained, it often seems as if it will just never happen. I've joked about Ben throwing his hairy legs in the air and demanding a diaper change at age 17, lest he be late for graduation. (For the record, we're finally making progress on that front).
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Complications Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management high blood sugar
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At 1 a.m. I woke up to go potty. It was weirdly dark and I was really in a stupor. It was almost like I was drunk. I can chalk part of that up to it being 1 a.m. and part of it to one of the meds I take for bipolar having a “sedating effect.” In other words, I sleep reeeeeeaaaallllyy well now.
I drank lots of water. And then went back to bed. It wasn’t until I woke up at 3 a.m. to go potty again and drink tons more water that I figured I was high. My One Touch Ultra Smart showed “HIGH GLUCOSE.” I had no clue what that meant, but I knew it was super duper ultra high, so I bolused for a blood sugar of 500 mg/dL. Then I tested again. Got the same “HIGH GLUCOSE” reading.
The light woke The Mr. He asked if I was OK and then we talked a little about why we thought I might be high. He thought it was weirdly dark, too. (Usually there is light from the computer, but he had turned it off before bed.)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management endo
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In this post I will rant and rave in a way I don’t think I ever have about something that when I look back at this post in about 20 minutes may see incredibly trivial. Or not.
Seriously, what is the logic behind checking my blood sugar at the endocrinologists office? Not *me* checking my sugar, but the nurse checking it during the course of blood pressure, weight, pulse, etc.
I mean really, for them it’s a totally random time to check someone’s sugar. They never ask when I ate last or when I last bolused. What is the reason for this?
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management low low blood sugar behavior
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I don't even know where to start this post. Should I tell you first how I started to fell sick after dinner last night and how my blood sugar was on the low side until this morning or how I nearly fainted at the pediatrician's office this afternoon?
I think I'll start from the beginning. Because, really, the best part is the near-fainting and why would I want to tell you all about that first without telling you what lead up to it?
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