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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Food Real Life
Tags: Active insulin skipping meals
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What you don't want to hear from your diabetes educator is "hmm, good question." That is, unless it's immediately followed by a good answer.
There has been a burning question of ours since Charlie started on the pump back in September of 2006. During that time, we posed the question to several different people along the way, but never really got a clear answer.
So I present this burning question to you - the true gurus of diabetes.
How can Charlie skip a meal if he wanted to? Is this a mythical notion or do people out there actually achieve this? If Charlie didn't eat something two to three hours after a bolus, he would most certainly go low. I'll ask you exactly what I asked the doctor and nurse practitioner the other day. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Food Real Life
Tags: girl scout cookies temptation yum
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Well here's something I didn't see coming: Sugar-Free Chocolate Chip Girl Scout cookies. I walked into the lunch room at work and there, on the stainless steel countertop, rested this never-before-seen box of cookies.
"Where did these come from?" I asked my co-worker.
"No idea," they said, through a mouthful of crumbs. "But they're pretty tasty."
(I love when people without diabetes can't tell that they're eating something less crammed with sugar than what they're used to.) (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows
Tags: high blood sugars pizza pump boluses
Views: 1936
I started out at 192. I did a correction bolus and a carb bolus. The carb bolus was for four slices of pizza. I used the square bolus over 3 hours, hoping that I wouldn't end up too high.
I ate my pizza slices, enjoying every bite. By the time I finished eating, I had about two hours left on my square bolus. That should be perfect, I thought.
An hour later, I was 87. I still had almost half the insulin to deliver, so I suspended the bolus and drank a juice. I planned to check my blood sugar again within the next two hours to watch for the peak, then bolus the remaining insulin.
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Categories: Type 1 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children In the News Real Life
Tags: clinical trials cure type 1
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When I heard about the clinical trials that are beginning for a possible cure for type 1 diabetes, I was really excited! I can't imagine not having this disease to lug around anymore but I am willing to give it a shot that is for sure! I would imagine most people with diabetes would.
No more finger sticks and insulin shots. All the calculating of carbohydrates and insulin on board would be gone. No glucose tabs to carry or a medical ID necklace to wear. I can't imagine it but I welcome it. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Real Life
Tags: Trick-or-Treating
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Olivia is planning on going trick-or-treating tonight. She's 13, so a bit old to be doing it, but she's using her little sister as an excuse. Who am I to knock that? I did the same thing all the way thru high school - hey, someone had to take my sister out. My parents were more than happy to let me do it.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Complications Emotions Women's Issues Real Life
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I'm more than a little OCD when it comes to Olivia's diabetes care. Not in the "must log every number and every carb and every speck of exercise" (because, hello? She's twelve and doesn't ask for food any more, she just goes and gets it and exercise? Hah. But that's another post.), but more in a "I need these numbers to be even," way.
It's maddening. Olivia could eat the same thing at the same time and do the same amount of exercise (hah) every day and still have wildly different bg readings each day. And I just want. To. Fix. It. I finagle insulin doses like pieces on a chess board. I obsess and worry over the timing of her insulin dose - should she have that before she eats? After? Dual wave? Square wave? Super bolus? (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: low blood sugar
Views: 1175
I've gotten into the habit lately of bolusing for a meal more toward the middle or the end instead of before. It depends on a number of factors, including what and when I ate last, what I'm getting ready to eat, and what my pre-meal blood sugar is. This mid-meal bolus stems from several instances when I've either gone low or started to go low before I even finish eating. It's pretty unnerving to feel a low so close to a meal.
Like today, for example. I tested at 130 not long before we headed downstairs to eat lunch. Since there are few tables for the amount of people who typically choose to eat lunch in the lobby, I went ahead of the microwave-users to secure a place for the five of us.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows
Tags: Forgetting To Bolus high blood sugar
Views: 1104
Because of finals and last minute touches on projects, the last few weeks destroyed my normal sleeping habits. The added stress didn't help my normal insomnia either. I tried heading to bed super early over the weekend so I'd be prepared for this week, but my body just didn't want to fall asleep before one.
Sunday night, I didn't fall asleep until after two. That happened again Monday night. So I was averaging about five hours of sleep a day, with no naptime. By Tuesday afternoon, I was quickly fading.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: CGMS for children
Views: 1053
The Past
Looking back on 2008 from a "Charlie's diabetes" perspective, it was a pretty good year. His A1c took downward baby steps from 8.1 to 7.9 and then to 7.8 at our last endo visit in November.
In 2008, he began identifying total carbs in the snacks he ate (and soon his whole class was doing it at snack time - sorry Mrs. R), but still showed no desire to begin testing his own blood sugar. We began having him bolus himself on occasion under our supervision. He seemed to like the idea of giving himself insulin; being the one to press the buttons.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Food Relationships Real Life
Tags: (none)
Views: 936
Every year, my mom and I do a massive family Christmas party. We spend countless hours thinking, planning, and doing in order to prepare. There's the Christmas tree and decorations, lots of gifts, groceries, and the actual cooking. On top of the cleaning, organizing, and menu-planning.
This year, we decided to change things up a bit. After all, we're just plain tired of the same ol' traditions that honestly and secretly, nobody really cares about. We actually almost didn't get a Christmas tree since I was coming in so late this year.
But we did. And we did a lot of the same old stuff. Like a turkey. And spinach casserole (only because I insisted since it is my favorite dish of all time). But we've changed up the menu on a lot of fronts.
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