Living with Diabetes

Author: kathleen

  • Stress Rant

    If you are not a diabetic, you have no idea what kind of stress diabetics can be under.

    I assume it is better for people on oral meds, but I have a feeling there are other stressors involved.

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  • Disposing of Sharps

    I hate to post about this, because I feel so stupid, but honestly I was just following instructions.

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  • Disappointed

    I have to say I am disappointed with this service.

    mailblocks: home page %u2013 say goodbye to spam, on your existing email inbox or create your own name@mailblocks.com email account.

    For almost all of last week, they had a bug that processed mailing lists incorrectly. That makes me nuts.

    Then early this week, my Inbox stopped working, and it took them over 24 hours to fix.

    I don’t function well without working email.

    So I’ve got my secondary addresses setup with them now.

    And I’m using a competitor who they are suing over patents — spamarrest — working as my primary email spam filter.

  • Statistical Voyeurism

    I’ve been accused of statistical voyeurism in the past, and in anyone cares, here are two interesting reports — to me.

    The first shows how much insulin I am taking:
    Medication Totals from Diabetes Pilot

    The second shows average glucose by hour and shows the details:
    Average Glucose by Hour

    Notice that even though I am reducing insulin, I am seeing pretty good control.

  • Doctor problems

    Well, MedRants and the rest of the web blogs are right.

    It doesn’t pay to be a doctor any more — at least not in Dallas, and as a result, my doctor and his wife are going back to Oklahoma.

    My husband has trouble with the concept, but that’s another long story and a bunch of really bad jokes…

    He promised me he’d make sure I’d have a good doctor when he leaves. We’re going to do the next set of labs before then.

    I’m VERY sad.

  • Insulin still decreasing

    I’m still frustrated. I’m doing 45 min cardio or 30 min cardio + personal trainer 6 days a week and still losing the same 5 pounds over and over.

    HOWEVER, some good news, and hopefully some light at the tunnel. Yesterday I was at 62 units of insulin and blood sugar levels stayed at good levels all day.

    I’m going down to 60 today. That’s from a high of 72 units!

    One of the reason I’m decreasing insulin levels, is that I am very close to hitting some lows throughout the day (and did hit one on Sunday).

    It’s a fine balancing act, but I’m learning it.

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  • Just One More THING!

    One of my friends and I have a new motto. It’s “It’s Just One More THING!”

    So the latest (one of several, but the one most related to diabetes)….

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  • I got to swim in the pool!

    We have a pool. I’m STILL not sure it’s a good idea. We’ve had it since we’ve had this house, about 2 years.

    Anyway, I was able to get in the pool. It was cold. 78 degrees, but it was fairly warm outside and I was still hot from the gym.

    I managed to get across the pool 3 times, so add that with 30 minutes of cardio, 30 minutes of resistance training. Not bad.

  • I guess this is why I’m on the most expensive statin?

    FDA Announces Labeling Changes on Heart Benefit Associated With Cholesterol Drug Zocor

    I really hope it does help better than the others.

  • I still don’t know what happened

    I still don’t know what happened yesterday, but I am going to decrease my twice a day insulin. I’ve been running much lower than usual all morning.

    Never odd.