This is one of the reasons why I choose insulin over an oral drug. Also the oral medication wasn’t working fast enough for me.
More than 6 million people around the world have taken the drug Avandia (rosiglitazone) to treat Type II diabetes. But a new study published this week in The New England Journal of Medicine suggests that the drug is linked to a higher risk of heart attack and death.
Source: Diabetes Drug Linked to Heart Attacks – Newsweek Health – MSNBC.com
Just like every other device with a color screen — you can’t see it well in direct sunlight. It was bit disconcerning the first time I tried it, but just like the cell phone and anything else with color on a black screen, you can’t see the Animas 2020 in direct sunlight. I’ve had to turn up my constrast to 10, so I can.
There is one thing for black on green screens — they don’t wash out.
And still no Ezmanager.
I go to the school board on Thursday to be recognized. I’m very excited!
Texas Instruments Innovations in STEM Teaching Award 2007
Good article on the different insulins.
Let us now delineate the different types of insulin available for treatment to suit the specific needs of patients.
Source: Insulin therapy for diabetes – 2
No one I’ve talked to or emailed at Animas has a ship date for the new EzManager. I’m really hooked on downloading my pump and analyzing what is going on, so not having a full picture is extremely annoying and disappointing.
I’d love to know what the hold up is, because they DID get FDA approval for a new version last month.
I drive about 90 minutes to dog agility and about 40 minutes back. That amount varies according to traffic. Why? She’s the best instructor for my dogs.
I’ve been taking Maggie and Marcie on Mondays, and Macy on Tuesdays. That eats up a lot of evenings, and FUEL!
Lately, Macy has been bored with the Tuesday night class. She can do 10 obstacles, no problem, provided I have cookies in my hand, I make enough noise, and I move fast enough. The other dogs have problems with 3.
Concidently, I have a really good friend who trains with the same instructor and her dog was having similar problems with the early Monday night class.
Her dog was moved up to Maggie’s class and Macy got her dog’s slot.
I even had a bit of a stress attack over this — but we did fine. Macy even managed to figure out the dog walk even though we had not done it before.
So I trained Macy from 6:50 until 7:45, Maggie from 7:45 until 8:40, and then Marcie from 8:40 on.
Maybe we’ll make it through the Sanctioned Match on Saturday!
I’ve polled a few people in my building, both adults and students. Of course, those students are computer science students.
All say that the pump looks “cool”. They like the screen, but didn’t remember the old one. Fortunately the UltraSmart II screen is similar to the old one, so they can compare.
So, it’s definately cool, both with the screen on and off.
Just got off the phone with Animas. They verified that I cannot retrieve carb and blood sugar information from the pump itself, but that it is downloadable with Ezmanager.
No release date.
I do have an email out to ezmanager support, so we’ll see what they say.
The last two weekends were about increasing my aerobic ability and dropping my TDD. This weekend, because I wasn’t sleeping well last week, has been about catching up on sleep. I’m also focusing on getting my house back together.
I only got 2 20 minute sessions done on the treadmill, yesterday, but my TDD was still around 40 units.
I also have good news. I saw a new low weight yesterday for a weight loss of 7 pounds! I didn’t see it again today, but that’s normal for me. I’ll see a 2-3 pound fluxation from day to day. Some of that is due to water retention.
All in all, I’m still very very happy with fitness for diabetics and even planning to sign up for another intensive 4 month session.
The new screen is nice.
The new way of doing carb ratios and insulin sensitivity is nice.
But here’s why I am disappointed — while the ad says that the pump stores the blood sugar and carb information on the pump, I have no way of retrieving that information right now! And that’s why I wanted the upgrade.
Hopefully they will have it fixed soon — I know the FDA approval went through a few weeks ago.