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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Emotions Fitness Real Life
Tags: depression poor managment Weight Gain
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For 4 weeks I have avoided the world. I stopped blogging. Stopped logging. Stopped counting points. Just stopped.
What good did it do me? Lots actually when I look back. I realized that support and friends are an important part of my life and my diabetes management. I use the support and advice from my friends almost daily. When I read comments on blog posts I always find support and help from so many. It truly keeps me in line.
The other side of it is that I found that worrying does no good at all. I have spent this last month worrying about money which did absolutely no good. The only good that came about was that realization. Worry is a waste of time.
What is annoying is that I know this. I know that worry is nothing more then a stress creator and with that, a glucose "inflator." I need not add to the stress of my life worrying all the time.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: high blood sugars missed boluses
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As I went through my normal pre-bed routine, I checked off the usual things. I set things in order for class tomorrow. I made sure my assignments were completed. I took my contacts out. I checked my blood sugar.
When the number 172 came up, I was kind of surprised. I'd had an issue earlier and ended up with a 309. I'd spiked after lunch because I misjudged how many carbs were in the real soda I had. Sometimes sodas can go without boluses and I'll be perfectly in range after. And sometimes, like today, my body decides to utilize every last gram of carbohydrate.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: getting back in control Lantus returning to MDI's
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It's been close to 36 hours since I went off the pump and back on the Lantus and Humalog routine. Luckily, I'm still alive and kicking. Sure there have been a few bumps in the road, but overall it hasn't been that bad at all.
I started out with 10 units of Lantus on Wednesday morning, but stayed between 220 and 250 the entire day. So when the evening injection came around, I decided to increase the Lantus to 12 units. But I still woke up at 223 after a pre-bed reading of 255. So I raised the Lantus again this morning to 14 units.
After breakfast, I saw the highest number yet: 371. I wasn't so excited, and didn't feel so well. I bolused for the number and waited for the decline. And a few hours later, I was 176 after eating a banana.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Real Life
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I don't really know what to think about my blood sugars since I changed the Lantus. Saturday night, I lowered it from 34 units to 33 to stop the drastic/constant lows that I was having. It's been three nights of that and I just can't see the outcome yet.
Sunday was okay. I woke up higher than I went to bed but I'd also eaten a snack without any bolus to cover. I ran in the 190 to 250 range through the day which was frustrating but I wasn't eating the best.
Monday, I woke up at 239 which was 20 points lower than I went to bed at (with no correction that night). I stayed in range for most of the day except for a spike to 287 and a slow decline that bounced from 199 to 237. The 287 was my fault as I missed a bolus for a low carb snack in the afternoon thinking that I was dropping low (I had the feeling but not the numbers to back it up).
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Real Life
Tags: averages carb counting daily life thinking
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Diabetes is hard work. Everyday I use my brain to survive and thrive. Every day I'm a mathematician, nutritionist and doctor.
I add carbs together, often so naturally I never give it a second thought (until three hours later when my levels leap up to 250). I subtract and add boluses to achieve an accurate dose. I figure percentages of basal rates to achieve a better A1c. I find the averages of blood sugars, insulin totals and daily carb counts (or let my high tech meter and pump do it for me). My brain is full of numbers and levels just waiting to be added, divided and analyzed. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Highs & Lows Emotions Real Life
Tags: bent canulla high blood sugar infusion set insulin pump
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Turns out my dinner-time debacle last night wasn't my fault.
While I blamed myself for a blood sugar reading of 500 on my afternoon candy grazing and failure to bolus, my new medical accessory was actually the culprit.
Thinking the candy was the problem, I bolused for dinner and went on with my evening. I considered that my site was the problem, but it wasn't red nor itchy nor anything else out of the ordinary. Two hours after dinner, when I was still 500, I changed my site. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Children Food Real Life
Tags: avoiding pizza and cake parties
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I took Charlie to a party on Saturday. It was in a large, old church hall with high wooden rafters and lots of wide-open space. When we opened the door, Charlie sprinted like a racehorse out of the gate, joining his friends who were busy whipping rubber balls at each other's heads at high velocity.
We had already discussed that we were going to pass on the pizza and Charlie was cool with that. Although many college students (and my high school humanities teacher) would be of a different opinion, Charlie does not like being high all night.
Charlie has an interesting way of describing things. He tends to invent his own words that end in "er." For example, for a party like this one, he would typically wonder if there was going to be a "jumper" there. Translation - a trampoline.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Food Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: blood glucose management blood glucose testing c-peptide carbs celiac Diabetes Education diagnosis diet doctors education Family HbA1c hypertension insulin low carb money priorities type 1 Type 2 Whole grains
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Yesterday, I responded to the question about "things you wish your doctors knew about diabetes and the daily task of living [with it] by mentioning that many healthcare providers' knowledge of diabetes is incomplete and/or out of date. Rather than be a part of the problem, I've proposed a first-draft solution — some things I would put into a Continuing Medical Education (CME) syllabus to fill in some of those gaps. I'm sure I'm missing rather a chunk of stuff, but then again, this is a first draft.
If I were to develop a syllabus to fill in the gaps in professional diabetes education, as I perceive they exist today, these are some of the things I would consider:
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