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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows
Tags: infusion set MDI scar tissue
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This morning I needed to change my infusion set for my pump.The infusion set is what goes into your body that allows the insulin from the pump to get to you. I change mine every 3 days.
I usually always put my sets in on my thighs. I have plenty of fat there and then I can stash the pump in my sock and it leaves belts feeling less like Batman's and keeps my pocket free.
As of late I have noticed that I hurts more then it used to when I put the infusion set in. Also I have been pulling out more sites due to bad absorbtion.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Emotions
Tags: education insulin stereotypes
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Okay, I will warn you up front that this post is a total rant and has no other substance besides the fact that I need to let off some steam. I am also looking for some of you who have dealt with this annoying stereotype.
As I was minding my own business here at my desk the janitor comes up to me and asks me if I have to take shots everyday. I realize that he was listening to a conversation I was having with a co-worker about insulin and so on. A total eavesdropping moment right? So I answer, "nope." And totally leave it at that.
He says, "Oh you got off of insulin. That's good. Just a diet now or pills?"
"No I have an insulin pump."
"There is a gal in another office I clean that has to shoot up every day." Then he does it. He does this sort of motion with his right hand towards his left upturned arm. As if he is shooting up heroin or something right into his vein! (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Highs & Lows Fitness Real Life
Tags: bicycling blood glucose management blood glucose testing diet exercise Type 2
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I don't have a camera for my cycling helmet.
Unlike many cycling advocates, I don't find the need to visually log every mile in traffic, every horn honking behind me, or how the sound of a car's engine (or the halo of its headlights) warns me of its approach more accurately than the rear-view mirrors that have fallen off my visors more times than I can count. On the other hand, it would be cool to be able to record the beauty of some of the local landscape, the technical details of my ride (speed, cadence, heart rate) at any given time, and for the sheer technogeekiness of it, both my glucometer and my heart rate monitor in the same frame, without having to remove the wristwatch receiver.
Yesterday was one of those days.
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Categories: Type 1 Insulin & Pumps Children Real Life
Tags: Pump Sites
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Olivia moved her site to her belly and her numbers have been much better. So thighs are definitely out.
We talked about it the other night - she's sick of using her belly. It looks awful, full of bumps and keloids and just generally mangled. I'm going to call her CDE at Joslin to see if we can start using her arms again. We're also going to start moving her sites out more towards her sides, in an effort to get around to her backside. Not her butt, because she says that really hurts, especially when she's sleeping, but in that area above the belt, where she still has some padding.
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Categories: Type 1 Children Emotions Real Life
Tags: shots testing walk to cure diabetes
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As we prepare for the upcoming JDRF Walk to Cure Diabetes, I'm reminded of a conversation I had with Charlie when he was 3, just prior to our second walk.
"We walk and we raise money so that there can be a cure for diabetes," I explained to him. He looked at me blankly, clearly confused.
"Can you buy me something at Toys 'R Us with the money?"
"No. The money is for a cure."
"What's a cure?" he asked.
"We raise money so that maybe someday the doctors will be able to take diabetes away. Maybe someday you won't have diabetes anymore. That would mean no shots and no more testing your blood sugar."
I thought my little pep talk would make Charlie excited and hopeful. Instead, a wave of panic washed over him. Not the reaction I was expecting.
He got very upset at the thought of no longer having diabetes and even cried when I suggested he wouldn't have to test his blood sugar if there was a cure.
"Keep testing!," he sobbed. (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Relationships Real Life
Tags: diabetes at work disclosure to tell or not to tell
Views: 1355
Recently, a woman at work discovered I have diabetes. I don't hide the fact that I have it at work, but it's not readily apparent. In the interest of safety, I've told several key people outright - and the folks in the near vicinity of my work space know because I don't hide my testing, pumping, or other efforts toward good control. If someone asks, I am usually happy to answer questions, clear up misconceptions, or alleviate concerns.
L, who works on the other side of our fairly large office, and who I don't see that often, came to my desk the other day and rather unceremoniously started into a monologue about my diabetes, It went something like, "Oh, Nicole" Look of concern, "A just told me about your diabetes. You have the bad kind, don't you? You have to take shots and things. Oh it must be so hard with having it the way you do. You have to stay away from sweets and I bet the shots hurt a lot."
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Categories: Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Emotions In the News Real Life
Tags: insulin pump
Views: 1376
I must be more than just playing around with the idea of a pump because I actually emailed my endo about it today.
I don't know why I feel funny about this, why I feel like me having a pump is overkill. Maybe because I'm "only" type 2, maybe because I'm not even three years into my diagnosis.
I shouldn't feel funny about it. I am reading more and more that insulin therapy for people with type 2 diabetes is being introduced earlier. Yes, I'm already on insulin and have been so since roughly three months after I was diagnosed. So what's the difference if I'm taking my insulin from shots or from a pump? (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Oral Meds Insulin & Pumps Children Highs & Lows Complications In the News Real Life
Tags: flu flu shot h1n1
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Despite the fact that temperatures here in the Valley of the Sun (or as my brother likes to call it The Actual Sun) continue to hover around 100 degrees, it's technically fall, which means that flu season is upon us.
I don't think I ever got a flu shot prior to getting diabetes. I was healthy for the most part and likely didn't understand what the flu really is. And even four years into the disease, last fall was the first time I got the shot since being diagnosed.
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Categories: Type 1 Type 2 Insulin & Pumps Real Life
Tags: injections insulin MDI Pumping units
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As I sat in the lower level of the on-campus trolley stop I thought about the injection I just took and the maze of shots I take every day. How many more shots will I take in my life? How many more times will I have to stutter-step, looking for a good place to shoot-up some insulin? How drastically might an insulin pump change my routine? (READ MORE)
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Categories: Type 2 Highs & Lows Real Life
Tags: glucose meter low sugar
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The baby woke up at 4:45 this am, feverish and hungry. She had four shots at her 4-month well-baby check yesterday so this was to be expected. I dosed her with baby analgesic and fed her and by then, it was past time for me to be up and about.
Last night I didn't do any of my morning prep work. Usually I try to shower, pack my food, maybe set up the coffee maker and make sure my meds are all set up in my weekly pill box. (I have TWO seven-compartment weekly pill boxes - just like an eighty-year-old). Maybe pick out my clothes. You know, all that stuff that you can do ahead of time to make the morning less stressful. I didn't do any so I could watch Kitchen Nightmares with my husband. (READ MORE)
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