Author: kathleen

It’s a thing. I told a personal trainer this week that I can’t keep track of my macros because of the mental load.

Here’s to thing. It’s the diabetes thing — it always gives a mental load.

If I want to eat carbs, I have to go to an app, enter carbs, click to accept the blood sugar reading and click to finally give a bolus.

If I want to work out, I have to go to an app, enter activity mode or eat some carbs so I can work out.

I checked my blood sugar via my watch twice during Pilates class today. And my alerts went off while I was doing cardio before the class.

Lately I’ve been tracking my sleep, trying to get it under control.

I have a new PCP. My old one was driving me nuts.

When this one came into the room, she noticed my Omnipod, which I had one my arm. After introductions, she asked if it were an Omnipod. I said yes, and we discussed it. She immediately passed the interview as she did not tell me I was wearing it wrong. That was the first interaction I had with my old primary care physician.

My old primary care physician was not happy with my weight loss. I’ve whined about that a lot. My endocrinologist has been happy with it. One of the reasons I don’t lose weight as quick as she would like, is that I am focusing on building muscle.

When I asked her questions in the portal she didn’t answer them.

I shared all this with the new PCP and she was okay with it all. I told her if she didn’t want to answer a question, just ask me to make an appointment. Always happy to do that.

I am constantly telling people on social media to tweak their settings to make their time in range better.

Got this in an email this morning.

https://www.omnipod.com/current-podders/resources/omnipod-5/timeinrange#video

Been meaning to post this for a while, after the Omnipod panic, I went to my doctor’s portal and still couldn’t put my question in good words, so I checked and he had an open appointment Monday morning.

My second encounter with him.

We talked out the issues and he gave me some options. I left with them and spent the week thinking about them.

I decided to go with the higher dose of Mounjaro. It has scared me because I’ve been fairly lucky with side effects so far.

I asked for the new prescription, he put it in the system and acknowledged it before 10:00 am, shortly after I got an email from Amazon Pharmacy telling me not only was it ready but they would ship it that day. Really lucky since that is my shot day.

It came and I’ve been on it for two doses now with no objectionable side effects. I’m using under 25 units of insulin but I got a new phone and the algorithm reset so my blood sugar isn’t as smooth as I would like.

Once it smoother my appetite will be more supressed. I hope.

I’ve got more news, but it will have to wait.

My insulin usage has gone from over 100 units a day to three times this week – 7 units.

If you look at the Omnipod documentation, it’s only been approved for usage of 6 units a day.

Yes….

For those of you who stumbled on this post, I was diagnosed in 2002, and was put on insulin shortly after.

My heaviest weight is 320. I’m at 215.

This miracle has been accomplished by using Mounjaro. Between Mounjaro, my weight loss and my activity level, I don’t use as much insulin.

I felt like I needed a plan but I couldn’t figure out how to ask for the plan through the portal. I also thought we need a conversation.

We did.

We’ve decided to keep using the Omnipod and see what happens between now and the next appointment.

We also decided to up my dose of Mounjaro when it needs to be refilled, since I have one pen and two boxes left. I’ll let you know what the Omnipod does when I get to less than 6 units.

My G7 just expired and I am in the grace period. I have the new one on and waiting for the warmup.

Very happy and I can move it to the other arm along with my Omnipod.

Lost signal a few times but otherwise was fine.

Really liked the new guy. Best year, this practice is closer to the house and is in my previous endo’s office.

I walked in complaining of blood sugars, especially at night and especially due to weight loss.

I attempted to fix by changing my carb ratio from 13 – 24. He said it wasn’t exactly what he would suggest but it was close enough.

He suggested an additional safe guard, which was to change my target from 110 to 130 for night time hours. I was still lower than I liked last night but I will give it another day and then raise it as needed.

Just “installed” my first Dexcom G7 15 day sensor. Will be coming back here to record what happened.

It does have a 60 minute warm up rather than 30. I did the overlap.

Readings are very close to the readings on my old Dexcom G7. Very little gap.

Had no issue pairing with my Omnipod 5. Having a bit of issue connecting my watch but I usually do.

The end is SO funny.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/juicebox-podcast-type-1-diabetes/id962416631?i=1000749378981

I refer back to this webpage all the time. It tells how to set up a new Omnipod 5 controller, whether or not it is the PDM or the iPhone or Android app.

Omnipod 5 – New PDM/APP