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So apparently I am no longer having allergic reactions to Humalog.  That was over 10 years ago and it was a process of elimination.

Yesterday I had a pretty carb heavy lunch, dosed with 8 units of insulin with no ill effects, so loaded up a cartridge with Humalog.  Have worn it since around 1:00 pm with no itching.  I’ll finish the vial to make sure.

Doctor did say that the Omnipod users were seeing some clumping in the summer with Humalog, but he didn’t realize that Novolog was more temperature tolerate – I do know you store it at a higher room temperature. 

So in a way, Express Scripts wins.  The plan is to switch to Humalog when I run out of Novolog – may save a vial or two for the summer.

As for Bayer Contour Next strips – Medtronics gets the insurance money through my durable equipment rather than going through the pharmacy.

We switched drugs. I had been taking Riomet, and it is freaking inconvenient so taking Invokana.

He verified we were concerned with trends and not numbers. 

Trying humalog to make sure I am allergic or not to it.

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I came home from the gym today and made the mistake of testing my blood sugar in front of my mother and sister. It was 156 which was pretty good considering:

• I treated a low with orange juice
• I drank a mocha to work out with and didn’t dose with insulin

Almost simultaneously my mother said that was high for her with a bit of ego, and my sister asked me what that meant.

Of course, neither one was ready to hear the answer which was:

It depends on what I’m doing for the next for four hours.

If I were going to watch TV, work on the computer, or do other normal Sunday stuff, I would correct and go on. But we were originally planning to go to a museum which would have meant some walking around, so I would have eaten some lunch and go on.

As it was, I ended up doing some last minute Christmas shopping so I had a bowl of soup and a assorted cheese appetizer at the Nordstrom Café.

I should have realized something was wrong when I couldn’t process what my sister wanted, but we all have those moments. I am learning though, when Dulce won’t load up, don’t try to drive the car.

I brought her back in, drank some orange juice, processed it and she loaded up fine 30 minutes later, watching me carefully the whole time.

Good beagle!

Life has been so freaking stressful.

A1C was 7.6 , up from 7.3 but still less than what I had pre-sensor.

I will take that.

Had a decent night sleep. Maybe the wine, maybe because I wasn’t feeling gastric reflux, but probably because the power was back on, and I have everything done I can do between now and the end of the school year. Will be tweaking the class website and getting ready for my TCEA presentation in February.

Another problem with the power outage was all the little worries – is this hurting the furnace, should I turn off the sprinklers even though they have a ice guard, I did. And will the sprinkler pipes freeze. Will the house pipe freeze.

All the little stuff.

And Larry Mowry our local weather man let me know why I hated my first apartment so – we had the longest freeze in record my first December here. I thought it was the apartment, no clue it was the weather. And this place is cold too, especially downstairs, but it is so nice in the summer.

She has learned an excellent Service Dog Behavior – she will not go up to someone until I say “Say Hello”. It’s not something I’ve explicitly taught her but something that has come from our public education. While I don’t think people petting her in public will bother her—she choose the service dog role, and if she decided she didn’t want to do it one day, I would accept it.

I had the proof this evening at the Nordstrom holiday party – and she’ll snarf up any food she finds on the floor but people usually excuse that. I’m working on trash can behavior, but she just can’t resist one—especially filled with popcorn, which all the ones at Nordstrom was.

I do like the fact that I can choose that. I don’t think that having children hang on is a good idea. She’s only 15 pounds and while beagles are quite sturdy, life is hard enough on a working dog. Also, it’s against our district rules for her to interact with students and I also think if she did interact with our students, it would wear her out.

She does also serve as a therapy dog to the adults on campus who need one. Especially on staff development days.

I went about 20 years with untreated sleep apnea and probably all my life with restless leg syndrome.

As a result it is very difficult for me to REM sleep, the side effect is weight gain, mood swings, and what looks like narcolepsy when it is really bad. Also probably arthritis. It certainly doesn’t make it better. I also don’t dream.

This also makes it hard for me to go to sleep and stay asleep.

CPAP helps. Sleep hygiene helps.

Stress makes it worse, this storm is horrible as I can’t relax at all.

The sleep issues have always affected mood and for a few years, doctors misdiagnosed me as having manic depression. First clue they were wrong, drugs made me worse.

Good news is that I recognize the symptoms in a teenager immediately and have gotten kids treated. Not the specific sleep disorder, but at least head them into a medical diagnosis instead of a futile psychiatric diagnosis.

Bad news, I still can’t sleep.

Those who read me regularly will know that Medco was bought out by Express Scripts and as of January 1, they won’t be paying for Novolog any more. What really bothers me, is that they get to change the rules on January 1^st, but I don’t.

I have talked to two Express Scripts customer reps who claim that “Humalog” is a “safe and effective” replacement and that there is no override and that Novolog was no longer covered. Duh, if you are allergic?

Finally talked with a supervisor this evening who said there was. Wrote my doctor an email to get that in process.

Oh, and the plan I have had for years – TRS Active Care 3 is going away in August.

Yeah, I am keeping my insurance.

Dulce had me up around 2:00 with a blood sugar of 65.  I suspect she tried to wake me up earlier and I couldn't wake up and the husband didn't hear her in his room.

Fortunately had really old nasty glucose tablets and swallowed down a slew.  Blasted things had only 5 crabs a piece in them, what good is that.

Woke up at 120, so all is good.  Have n idea why, CGMS shows a massive drop which I also slept through.