Living with Diabetes

Author: kathleen

  • Tight Control

    Tight Control article

    Now that I have my summer back …

    I tried the MDI (Multiple Daily Injection) method of tight control and it almost made me nuts. I could not keep a constant schedule. Summer was the utter living end of that for me, especially the teacher workshop thing.

    Oh, and the school year where they changed our lunch periods every 4 weeks.

    I can’t imagine going back to shots and keeping this tight control. Today is a good example. Let’s say that I ended up burning more blood sugar than I had planned. Now, while I might be able to figure out I need 40% more insulin than usual on a workshop day, and I could probably do a rough estimate and give myself a bigger long acting insulin dose, there is no way to guarantee WHEN that insulin would get released. Also, there is no way to change my mind once I give it.

    With the pump, if I had checked at 10:00 and saw I was going towards low, I would have eaten a Snicker minature and then turned off the temporary basal. If I did it the shot way, I’d probably have to eat a large Snicker’s minature, causing some weight gain.

  • Workshop IS over!

    I survived. And I figured it out.

    A 40% basal rate change kept me pretty stable today. I was between 120 and 150 all day, which isn’t bad. Personally I like to be a bit lower, but I could function mentally.

    Now if I can only remember to actually SET the basal rate two hours before the workshop, and for the entire duration.

    I am now returning to my regular summer.

  • Workshop IS over!

    I survived. And I figured it out.

    A 40% basal rate change kept me pretty stable today. I was between 120 and 150 all day, which isn’t bad. Personally I like to be a bit lower, but I could function mentally.

    Now if I can only remember to actually SET the basal rate two hours before the workshop, and for the entire duration.

    I am now returning to my regular summer.

  • Fabulous article on Tight Control

    RNweb – Tight insulin control: Making it work

    Tight insulin control: Making it work

  • Fabulous article on Tight Control

    RNweb – Tight insulin control: Making it work

    Tight insulin control: Making it work

  • I think I know part of what happened….

    It hit me in the afternoon, that my “diet coke” from McDonald’s tasted funny. Good thing I didn’t throw it out, because I tested it in the car. Yep, with my blood sugar meter, dipped a strip in, and sure enough it was high. Hit the “C” button so it won’t show up in the logs.

    However, I don’t think +40% was too high. I was nice and stable all afternoon. Was 125 when I got home and I even did 25 minutes on the treadmill.

    However, I AM taking tomorrow off exercise wise. One more day of workshops and I’m done until school starts.

  • Stabalizing

    I am doing better this afternoon. I am very shocked that it is taking such a high basal rate to compensate for the workshop. I’m at 40%!

    kweaver – from my Treo

  • Doing a bit better

    The correction helped. I’m back at 146 but man I want a nap! Being high wears me out. Also hungry but I don’t want to add any more sugar to the mix.

    Now I have to watch and make sure I don’t go low.

    kweaver – from my Treo

  • I was right

    Now I’m at 115.

    FYI: There are several reasons I’m blogging this. For one, these rollar coasters affect the mind and I need to know what is going on so I can discuss with my CDE and the rest of the health team.

    I might not remember exactly what went on.

    Also if anyone else has clue with this, I would love some input.

    kweaver – from my Treo

  • Teacher Workshops don’t do me well

    I thought I was being smart. I set my temp basal to 30+ at around 6:30 for 8 hours but my blood sugar is 216 and I ate a known breakfast and did my symlin.

    I upped the temp basal to 40% and did a correction and checking every hour.

    Part of the problem is organization. Once I got here no one was sure where I was supposed to go.

    Then the district had my registration but the company putting on the workshop didn’t have my name. I have some paranoia on the score that I won’t get into here.

    kweaver – from my Treo