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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: awareness bad habits blind bolusing diabetes goals
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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 high blood sugars pump boluses
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It's my time...to change my habits.
Numbers have been consuming my life in the past two weeks. Every time I turn around, a number pops up that leaves me feeling out of sync, exhausted, and completely burnt out. Averages like 241 or even 301 are consuming my logbook. Seeing numbers below 170 are a rare occurrence, with most riding in the upper 200 and 300 range.
The other side of the numbers is the insulin levels. I've raised my Lantus to 32 units in the evening now. And from that, I've had my first low in a week (and it was only a 72 after not eating for quite some time). I've also almost doubled my Humalog, which seems to be the biggest deterrent to those pesky 300's that I was seeing so regularly.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: bad habits logbooks Logging skipping boluses
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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 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 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: blind bolusing guilt perfectionism
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: bolusing habits fear of lows stress symlin
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I have no idea why it didn't hit me until yesterday afternoon. I know what stress does to my blood sugars: it lowers them. They get pesky and no amount of carbs will bring them up. So as I was contemplating this weekends' low annoyances, it hit me. Stress.
Last week, my stress level definitely went up. The first round of tests started for the semester. I had group meetings and papers due. Plus I've been dealing with the medical stress that comes with changing treatments and making important decisions. All that added up to leave me with averages like 84 and 69 (over six hours of riding in the 60's).
So Saturday morning, I dropped the Lantus back to my original dose (14 units in the morning and 15 units in the evening). I'm still having a few lows (more than the week of highs), but I'm also seeing a mix of highs in there. Sadly, those highs are my own doing.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: bad habits
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Back in March, I wrote a post about my top five diabetes habits that needed to be changed. I'm curious to see how I've progressed in the last four months. I haven't made a conscious effort to truly change, but I have kept these things in the back of my mind. So here goes:
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Categories: Type 1 Food Highs & Lows Emotions
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It is lunchtime at work. I'm taking a little break to write a quick post.Â
It's been a challenging week, with several 12 hour days and work from home after those hours. My bloodsugars have been a little nuts, including a low bloodsugar in the office yesterday that was sort of a zinger. One of those weeks.
I have managed to remain a non-smoker and I've been to the gym to run and get other exercise every other evening. I'm finding that exercise is extraordinarily helpful in providing a sense of calm and release of tension that I'm not sure I could find anywhere else.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: burnout high blood sugars schedule changes
Views: 1795
The past four days have been a real pain. I have no idea what my problem is, but I just can't seem to get my diabetes right. I had been going fine, doing everything correctly, testing like a mad woman, and getting great averages.
But something got a hold of me on Sunday night and hasn't let me go. I'm checking a lot still, but I'm seeing numbers like 180 or 220 instead of 100 or 120. I'm eating anything and everything I want. I'm not bolusing for snacks. I'm not calculating boluses correctly. Basically, I'm just slacking.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Complications Emotions Fitness Real Life
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I am not doing what I should be doing to take care of my diabetes. I don't check often enough. I snack without bolusing. I never log anymore. I'm being a real slacker.
It isn't that I don't have TIME for this disease. Yes, I work part time. I attend graduate school full time. And I have a lot of other responsibilities like a very needy cat, a great boyfriend, and managing the usual parts of life. But I have time to check my blood sugar, take an injection, and log some numbers every week. I could be doing that right now instead of blogging and watching TV.
The thing is that I don't have the ENERGY for this disease. I stopped having the energy somewhere between year ten and twelve. A decade of diabetes wore me out. And almost two decades really has me down. It just isn't what I want to be doing on a cold, rainy Tuesday night. Especially when I have a slight headache and my eyes just want to close.
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