Category: Current Status

That five pounds, plus a couple more were missing this morning. It’s always been Monday morning that has been the most frustrating.

Hopefully I’m off the plateau and will STAY off.

As most know who have been following this, I’ve been losing the same 5 pounds for about 2 months.

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Made it in the pool this afternoon and sort of did 10 laps.

Sort of means that I moved up and down the length of the pool 10 times but I didn’t swim every part of it. Did a lot of water walking.

Blood sugar was at 104 at dinner, so I’m decreasing my daily dosage down again to 28 units twice a day (56 total). Since my high was 36 units (72 total), I’m doing pretty well.

I am still losing the same 5 pounds.

BUT on the good side I met my exercise goals for the week.

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Went to get steriod shots today. Guess what?

Doc wouldn’t do them. They screw up your blood sugar.

Surgery a week from Saturday. He wanted to do it this Saturday but with husband gone I thought best to wait a week.

Not having time to think about it might have been good too.

This evening my blood sugar was 176. Instead of adding more insulin, I did 10 “laps” in the pool.

The pool was at 80, temperature was around 90 so it wasn’t too bad. Certainly better than yesterday.

But the cool part? After I got done, blood sugar was at 146.

And I’ve tolerated 58 units very well today, without adding any. That’s down from a high of 72 units of daily insulin (I haven’t taken good track of how much I’ve added from time to time).

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.

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.

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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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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