Living with Diabetes

Author: kathleen

  • Good news, my blood sugar is back to where it was

    I really wish I knew why I got screwed up this morning. The good news, is that recovery has been real fast. The day ended up being a bit weird.

    I “forgot” it was Monday and that I needed to pick up food. So I got home, messed around, gave myself some Symlin, with the intent of eating in half an hour.

    Husband got home, after a short “just got home” discussion, I said, I’m going down to eat — oh my gosh, I forgot to get food. He offered, but didn’t want to do it in 5:00 pm traffic, but I forgot, and needed something to eat and didn’t have anything but breakfast, so got in the car, went to McD’s and got a Quarterpounder, and then got dinner.

    So then I couldn’t really eat dinner until two hours after, as I’m not sure how to dose with the Symlin if I stacked, so I ate my dinner at 7:00.

    I’m still way under my normal calorie count though, it’s just that I’m probably going to be up with GERD because I ate dinner so late. And I have 70 minutes to look forward to tomorrow, and there NO way I’m getting all that walking in before I got to school. Hoping to get in 30 minutes though.

  • Why I self-disclosed

    I’ve got a REAL problem. If my blood sugar is off, especially high, I get SICK. Today, I hit 240 when I tested, and was nauseus, headachy, bitchy, and my vision was blurred.

    I’m not sure why. My blood sugar always elevates when I have to sit still and we were doing that. Also, I get hit with the problem person from last year almost first thing. She’s good at that.

    I thought it was the set but I corrected and then changed out the set and the blood sugar went down.

    The good news, is that my CDE was responsive, and she helped. I had my temporary basal set to 40% and she had me change to 50% and I stayed stable all afternoon. I hate to think how much insulin I did today with no food. I’m sure it was enough to gain weight.

    If I have to do that, I wish I would at least would have been able to eat something good.

  • Why I self-disclosed

    I’ve got a REAL problem. If my blood sugar is off, especially high, I get SICK. Today, I hit 240 when I tested, and was nauseus, headachy, bitchy, and my vision was blurred.

    I’m not sure why. My blood sugar always elevates when I have to sit still and we were doing that. Also, I get hit with the problem person from last year almost first thing. She’s good at that.

    I thought it was the set but I corrected and then changed out the set and the blood sugar went down.

    The good news, is that my CDE was responsive, and she helped. I had my temporary basal set to 40% and she had me change to 50% and I stayed stable all afternoon. I hate to think how much insulin I did today with no food. I’m sure it was enough to gain weight.

    If I have to do that, I wish I would at least would have been able to eat something good.

  • Disclosure

    Diabetes Mine: Look Who’s Talking Self-Disclosure (on dLife), and The Great Glycemic Index Debate

    It’s interesting that you bring this up TODAY when I have to remind people.

    I get really sick when my blood sugar is too high and I got high during a staff dvelopment session today. So high, that the first person I reminded was the school nurse and the second people were the people running the session so they would know why I was madly typing on my Treo. More on a non-trackback entry.

  • Disclosure

    Diabetes Mine: Look Who’s Talking Self-Disclosure (on dLife), and The Great Glycemic Index Debate

    It’s interesting that you bring this up TODAY when I have to remind people.

    I get really sick when my blood sugar is too high and I got high during a staff dvelopment session today. So high, that the first person I reminded was the school nurse and the second people were the people running the session so they would know why I was madly typing on my Treo. More on a non-trackback entry.

  • Back to Work

    I go back to work today 🙁 Hasn’t seemed like much summer.

    Since the next two days should be sit in one place and listen, I’ve upped my temp basal to +40% and also changing my bolus reminder to an hour after (instead of 2 hours after). A trick I use with my Animas, and just did — I will bolus with a 0.0 amount. That turns on the reminder.

    I’m trying to decide if I want to chance the food they are providing — letter said “light breakfast”, or what I want to get on the way. What I get for breakfast determines whether I need a Symlin shot.

    Decisions!

    I did get on the treadmill this morning and do 25 minutes. That’s a goal for me right now, is to try to do at least 25 minutes every morning and then finish in the evening — though today’s schedule is just 25 minutes. Tomorrow on the other hand is 70!

  • Back to Work

    I go back to work today 🙁 Hasn’t seemed like much summer.

    Since the next two days should be sit in one place and listen, I’ve upped my temp basal to +40% and also changing my bolus reminder to an hour after (instead of 2 hours after). A trick I use with my Animas, and just did — I will bolus with a 0.0 amount. That turns on the reminder.

    I’m trying to decide if I want to chance the food they are providing — letter said “light breakfast”, or what I want to get on the way. What I get for breakfast determines whether I need a Symlin shot.

    Decisions!

    I did get on the treadmill this morning and do 25 minutes. That’s a goal for me right now, is to try to do at least 25 minutes every morning and then finish in the evening — though today’s schedule is just 25 minutes. Tomorrow on the other hand is 70!

  • WOW!

    I just got my grades back from one of the classes I am taking this summer. I got a 31 out of 31 on my research paper. I worked on that sucker ALL summer, so I am extremely pleased with the grade.

    That means I have a 97.5 in that class.

    I won’t know about the other class until probably the end of the week, since we have one major and one minor assignment due tomorrow at noon.

  • Atkins Nutritional going bankrupt

    I’ve been giving this a lot of thought and watching all the people who are cheering over the Atkins Nutritionals Bankruptcy.

    One thing that people aren’t getting, is that the Atkins diet ISN’T Atkin Nutritionals. It’s the products with an “A” on them. Yes, the books are probably also a product of the company. But the biggest problem was the food. It really didn’t taste very good, I know I’ve tried it. Lots of companies who are good at making good tasting food have managed to come out with lower carb food and I think that’s why Atkins Nutritional is in trouble.

    Plus they had a hard time getting shelf space. For example, Kraft is making South Beach diet stuff. The Kraft brand already owns shelf space in almost every grocery store — they can just tell the grocers to change their shelf space. Also, South Beach Diet foods are MUCH better tasting.

    What really gets me, is that are a few Bernstein advocates cheering the Atkins demise and that REALLY doesn’t make sense. The difference between Bernstein and Atkins is that Bernstein limits ALL food components, not just carbs. Bernstein just limits carbs a lot more.

    I know a lot of non-diabetics who have lost weight and kept it off with Atkins. I have personally tried Atkins. I don’t lose weight if I do Atkins, but I don’t gain it either.

    In fact, the only way I do lose weight is if I count carbs AND calories AND exercise. And it is REAL slow.

  • Master’s

    I turned in my rubric for the discussion leader yesterday because the discussion was pretty much over. A bit disappointing, but oh, well.

    I just bit the bullet and turned in my final exam. We’re allowed to resubmit our assignments up until the due date, so I’ve decided to play it safe and turn in what I have now.

    I would like to put in a bit more material in two of the questions.
    I’ve got 2 full pages for 2 questions and 1 1/2 pages for 2 questions. The questions are based on research and unfortunately there just isn’t as much research out there on those two questions. However, I don’t want to answer the other questions either

    It’s nice to be done. However, I’ve already started worrying about next school year, it would have been nice to have a few days between.