Category: Current Status

Here are videos from our agility weekend. The first is a fun match, the next three are our clean runs, and the last is our “goof”.

http://tinyurl.com/84hk4

My bolus rates aren’t working as well as they were last week. I’ve been consistently high after each meal. 163 after lunch.

I think it is really interesting, and sort of in a way, documented in the book “Pumping Insulin”, that the more insulin you use the more you need, and vice versa. Since I went 3 days with using 50 units a day, it is going to take a few days for my body to adjust downward to the 30 units a day rate, especially since I have a workshop tomorrow, and I’ll probably using about 40 units that day.

My bolus rates aren’t working as well as they were last week. I’ve been consistently high after each meal. 163 after lunch.

I think it is really interesting, and sort of in a way, documented in the book “Pumping Insulin”, that the more insulin you use the more you need, and vice versa. Since I went 3 days with using 50 units a day, it is going to take a few days for my body to adjust downward to the 30 units a day rate, especially since I have a workshop tomorrow, and I’ll probably using about 40 units that day.

But it only makes sense, but also explains why I’ve had to change my bolus rates a bit. My TDD (Total Daily Dosage) of insulin is up to 40 units a day.

I’ve so far had 4 days of dog agility trials, today will be the end for a while.

Speaking of which, my blood sugar was 104 this morning, which is extremely good for me. Especially after 2 days of trialing.

I’ve also only have 5 more full days with my students, and then we go to exam schedule — I will probably need to switch to my weekend rate at the beginning of finals and stay that way until the students report back.

One of the things I’ve recently done that I think will REALLY help, is to program reminders in my Treo to remind me to change the pump to different rates in advance. So I’ve just set up reminders for winter break — mostly to delete the ones telling me to set the pump to a normal rate.

That’s what kept me from using a weekend rate the most, having to remember to set the pump.

It worked out okay though — went I went to the restroom here at school, I pulled off my set. It was very cold, and I knew my room was going to be cold so I went ahead and changed it there. I also did NOT want to do it in the restroom as it would take a while.

Quite a few people walked in and out of the teacher’s lounge, but no one commented on what I was doing. I managed to get the set changed with no problem.

That’s the second time I’ve done a set change in a public place without anyone really noticing. Of course, I inject that way all the time.

My blood sugar is back where it should be this morning, so the corrections worked. I’d rather that the basal rate worked.

Oh well.

On another note, I did everything last night that i shouldn’t for the GERD and was up several times. You’d think I’d learn.

DFW IUG Meeting tonight.

While my blood sugar has been good ALL day including this morning, I have had another one of my evening spikes. 245 this time. I’ve upped my 6:30 pm basal rate, and I’ll keep an eye on it.

It’s even more frustrating, since I did my cardio and everything else!

I’ve updated my Main Index and have put my links to my about page, hints, and rules back on top. Also have listed the mobile site link.

I’m home now, and my blood sugar is back to 108.

So I guess I’ll leave this basal alone and watch it again tomorrow.

I was in the car, on the Treo when I started on the other Agility Experiments and got side tracked.

I’ve posted on this before I think, but one of the things I don’t do well enough with my pump is adjusting my basal rate. That’s one of the things I’m working on.

We’ve been able to come up with a pretty good basal rate that works well during the week, which is a good thing, since that is usually 5/7 of my life. However, I have spend spending weekends chasing mild highs.

So first, I set up a basal rate I’ve called weekend, and set it to my evening rate all day. I still was chasing mild highs, so I upped it by 10%. I think its better, but I haven’t had enough days to judge.

I’ve also set a rate for my agility trials. That one will take a bit more tweaking, but the good news, is that I have two days this week and 2 1/2 days next week to work on that one. That one is now 10% higher than the weekend rate I established.

That’s one reason I packed extra food. I’ve also restocked my emergency food supply, just in case. I talked to a diabetes sports specialist about this about a month ago, and he convinced me that on agility trial weekends I shouldn’t focus on losing weight, but I should focus on keeping my insulin levels low enough to compete better. I also shouldn’t be as tired, since the high blood sugar levels I’ve been experiencing on trial days, wear me out.

I also think that if I mentally feel better, the dogs will do better. Marcie is more affected by my physical well being that Maggie — and if I am not as tired, I will run faster.

Anyway, we’ll see how it goes.