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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Food Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar management logging blood sugars
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I know I've written about this before, but it keeps coming up. So bear with me as I talk this out.
The last couple times I've gone to the endocrinologist the nurse takes my pump to download all the goods: insulin:carb ratio, basal rates, and the blood sugar readings from my Ultra Link meter that automatically enters my blood sugar into the log in my pump (man do I love that feature!).
So as the PA (who I'm growing to like) looks over my numbers she asks roughly what times of the day I have breakfast, lunch and dinner. She writes the times on the sheet and continues examining the numbers.
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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 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 Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: adjusting averages logbook
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Ever since I got my pump, I stopped logging my blood sugars. Typically, I kept a running chart of every blood sugar categorized by time of day and weekly averages. But since the pump stores all of my information and produces such wonderful graphs, I stopped logging.
However, those graphs do not show specific blood sugar trends on a weekly basis and the numbers are never directly in front of me (haunting me at times). So I decided that I would get back on the logbook wagon.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: BG meters
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Nope, not a new Nancy Drew mystery, unfortunately. It's much more prosaic.
Olivia has been using the One Touch Mini since last summer. She got a new, downloadable one at the endo appointment in February. It's her favourite meter.
However, yesterday I went to put her numbers for the last couple of days in the meter and I noticed that she tested her blood sugar at 4-ish on Friday and never checked it again until the next day. She swears up and down that she did check it, but there's nothing in her pump and nothing in the meter. Check that - there are carbs and insulin doses in her pump, but no blood sugar readings.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Emotions Real Life
Tags: Logging
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Blah, blah, blah, here she goes again, pissing and moaning about logging.
Back when the year was shiny and new, as opposed to snow-covered and grubby (and enough with the snow already, ok? I'm SICK of it. Sick.) I resolved to be more diligent about logging Olivia's blood sugars. And for a few weeks I was. And then I forgot for a couple of days. And then it was Thursday and I thought, well, I'll just start over on Monday. And I forgot again.
I've logged in fits and starts over the last 2 months, but mostly, I haven't logged at all. And now she has an endo appointment tomorrow and I'm not going to have that much information to give her and I'm pissed at myself.
I just don't know how to make myself log. I forget. And if I'm forgetting to log, how am I supposed to teach Olivia? I'm not setting a good example at all and they always tell you (who are they anyway?) that you should lead by example when it comes to your kids.
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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: Logging pump
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I started logging again on Sunday. Sunday's logs weren't all filled out, but I was diligent about it yesterday. For the first time in a very, very long time, I had an entire day of blood sugars and food on paper.
It felt good enough that I continued this morning (insert uncontrollable sarcastic laughing here). OK so it's not that bad. I am a bit nervous, though, about how long it will last. The logging, I mean; not the laughter. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: blood sugar logging responsibility
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Nicole wrote an entry about blood sugar logging that struck a real chord with me.
I remember using old-school blood sugar meters that took a few minutes to provide a result and didn't have a memory, so my mother would diligently write the result down in my tattered, bloodstained logbook. For the first few months - maybe years - my logbook was a steady record of how my numbers were faring. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Highs & Lows Relationships Real Life
Tags: blood sugars logging blood sugars
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Monday morning, 10:15 am: Pick up phone. Dial numbers. Make idle chit-chat with wife before getting to real reason for phone call - what's Charlie's blood sugar?
Tuesday morning, 10:15 am: Pick up phone. Dial numbers. Make idle chit-chat with wife before getting to real reason for phone call - what's Charlie's blood sugar?
Wednesday morning, 10:15 am: Pick up phone. Dial numbers. Make idle chit-chat with wife before getting to real reason for phone call - what's Charlie's blood sugar?
Though tempted to boost my word count even further, I'll stop at Wednesday, knowing that you get the point.
Respond to wife with the following assortment of interchangeable exclamatory interjections:
"Damn!"
"Crap!"
"Great!" (not the good kind, the sarcastic kind)
"Super!" (again, sarcastic)
"Thank God!"
It has gotten just a bit monotonous.
And not just on my end.
10:15 am
Me: Hey
Susanne: Hey
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Categories: Type 2
Tags: diabetes management food logging blood sugars
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I am proud to say that I still have every log sheet I've ever written, most of which are pretty comprehensive. If it will offer some perspective, I had a perinatologist once (not my own, but someone I was talking to in another capacity) tell me he thought my logging practices were a little overkill.
You can tell, though, when my efforts start to fade. Of the 10 sheets in my purse, some days are filled out completely, some just have what I ate for breakfast and my fasting sugar. Most, however, are blank.
I actually enjoy logging. It might sound cliché, but logging helps me see patterns, keep track of what I'm eating and know what my blood sugar was in certain situations. But, often, as quickly as I decide to start logging (again), the practice is abandoned. (READ MORE)
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