Head To Head Study: Pumps Versus Glargine and Fast Acting Insulin
Actually it isn’t because they went further than just finding out whether or not the patient perferred the pump. What they found out was that the patients had at least the same numbers, if not slightly better with the pump.
Be VERY careful on how you get your doctor to write your supplies. I swear my prescription says to test 8-10 times a day.
Medco has choosen to interpret this as test as many as 8 times a day and is sending me 7 boxes of 100 test strips. Instead of 9.
At least so far, they have not tried to get me or the doctor to change brands.
I check — between January 1 and January 15, I had 129 entries in my log. That means I have been testing 8.6 times a day.
Typically I check when I wake up. Two hours after meal. If I am driving without eating or checking. Before and after exercise, and sometimes during if things aren’t right — I tend to go low exercising.
Yep, that’s a lot of holes. Bring on the continuous blood sugar monitor device. PLEASE!
I was asked to look at this program.
I’ll start out though by saying this is probably not a program I would use because I’m extremely efficient. I am not going to use a program that is not going to automatic download my pump and blood sugar meter data. That said, I did download this program and give it a try.
UTS Diabetes software for Palm pilot
The install program is very nice. It leads the users by the hand. Too many Palm programs have poorly designed installation programs.
The insulin calculations set up is very tedious but then that’s something that you don’t do often, and don’t change much.
I also don’t see how to calculate carbs / insulin rations.
It’s got a very good user interface — much better than EzManager.
A nice program, but not that useful for a pumper. Would be great for someone who used multiple daily injections and didn’t carb count, or great for someone on medications.
This is something that has made my life infinately easier. They now have a free version, so give it a try.
I really like the web interface, and it is great because I’m on multiple computers.
Got a call from Animas today. They had to talk to me about my insurance. I just KNEW they would tell me that I wasn’t covered…
BUT, nope, they had to tell me the terms on my insurance policy and make sure I understood them before they shipped.
Should have them on Friday.
Told my mom, and she said — and yeah, if you’d waited you might not be here today.
I don’t think I was that bad, but still…. I’ve avoided at least 5 months of possible complications.
Several years ago I did VERY VERY well, going to the gym every morning. I’ve been good about going in the afternoon, but it’s a drag, it takes up all my after school sunlight etc.
SO, yesterday I got up, went to the country club gym (that’s the replacement for my old one). I was warned, but was a bit alarmed to see a large number of cars in the lot.
But there were enough treadmills that I could get in my 42.5 minutes.
However, there was a line for the shower! The good news is that I was the first in line. Then there was only one hair dryer downstairs and 4 of us.
I still got out and got to school by 7:45. I like to get there before my tutoring kids come at 8:00.
Today, I made it again. In fact, made it a few minutes earlier. Not as many cars, but again plenty of treadmills. It was touch and go for a few minutes, but I still managed to do 42.5 minutes uninterrupted.
This time, no line for the shower, and I was the only one downstairs. One of my fellow teachers came down — come to find out she teaches some classes at the club. Good news — she figured out that I couldn’t make it to her class and make it to school — sorry, but I really don’t like the group exercise thing.
Okay, here’s the truth, every time I’ve done the group classes, I’ve cut down on the cardio and they just don’t burn the same number of calories, and hers is a stretch class.
… The bad news, truck is in the shop, getting a repair on something that was fixed last October (2002).
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