Category: Current Status

Dropped my temp basal before I left for dog agility class tonight as I was running lower than I like and dog agility does expend some energy. Really glad I did because we were doing a lot of straight line runs.

The biggest problem was the humidity. I am supposed to change my set tomorrow morning anyway, but I got so how and sweaty that the infusion set slid right off me as I was running. Fortunately I noticed it right away, but since I still had several runs, I went ahead and suspended the pump, figuring I could correct later.

For those of you who don’t pump, changing infusion sets at night can be a tad dangerous. The infusion set is the most difficult part of the insulin pump setup to get right. First, designing is hard and producing something that will get it right every single time is hard. Pair that with human error when inserting, and then just the oddities of the human body — one of our bloggers was talking about how one of her sites failed and she figured the insulin was pooling next to a muscle, and you are just asking for trouble.

I’m not sure if I can go into DKA like a Type 1 can, but I really hate to throw everything off by ignoring it.

I did get something to eat on the way home, and I am pretty sure I underbolused, but I’m still a bit concerned that my blood sugar is at 211. I just did a correction and am tired enough to sleep, but I’m not sure I should until I know the set is working.

The good news, is that tomorrow I can actually sleep in, one of the first days I’ve been off since that was true. However, between the husband and the dogs, I’m sure to be gotten up.

Summer is working!

I just was able to drop my carb ratios — I’ve been consistently getting blood sugars below 135 after meals, and some in the 120’s, so I’ve dropped my carb ratios.

That means a couple of things — it means that working out and chilling out has decreased my insulin resistance.

It also means, if it works, that I should be dropping my insulin usage, probably helping me to lose weight, as long as everything stays under control.

Got my new contacts, just in time, as I dropped and couldn’t find the trial lens. They are MUCH more comfortable than the old, and I can see to read without straining so hard — very important, as one of the classes I’m taking this summer is “Readings in ….” and I have been avoiding the reading.

As these were a new brand, and a new package, I looked them up on the web — if you are wearing Toric or Multifocal lenses these are much wetter, and are called ProClears by Coopervision.

I am almost out of Toric lenses too, so I called and the Contact Center is ordering me one lens and a box, so I can try the new Torics and decide if I like them before I buy a box.

I pay a little more for lenses than if I went through a 1-800 number but man do I get super service. They’ve even taken back half boxes before when I was wearing a “popular” size.

My blood sugar seems to be pretty smooth — chugging along between 110 and 150 most of the day.

I’ve got my TDD down to 52 average, not bad, when I exceeded 110 for a few days at one point.

I just went out to iShape and increased the intensity of my cardio workouts, hopefully I can start losing weight now. It is at least stable now, and I stopped gaining.

The break is going well, I’ve started lots of little projects and have even finished a few. Tomorrow I’m going to have an electrician look at two circuits, one hasn’t worked for quite some time and will be a surprise for my husband when it is working again.

Candid Diabetes: Two out of Five

I’m not the only one not impressed … though the JDRF commercial didn’t get me — but then I’m not a little kid person and I’m still coming off the school year.

Diabetes In Control – Target Goals Not Being Met Even in Specialty Diabetes Center

Though I do think the clinic I go to does a great job.

They’ve just moved into bigger, new office, with more room. It’s VERY nice.

Survived the dentist and without needing extra insulin. He told me it wouldn’t hurt this time, and it didn’t, well, it irritated my jaw — I broke it in a bicycle accident years ago, and have had problems with dentists ever since. He did a crown prep, my number 2 tooth is literally crumbling from all the repairs.

I’m going to be glad to have that done and behind me. It’s been giving me trouble for the past 6 months.

The other good news, is that I’ve gotten the ginivitis under control, which is supposed to be more prevelant in diabetes. I’m sure the GERD is behind the tooth problems I’ve been having.

An a major brag — I got our doorbell working finally. It hasn’t since we moved in, and for a while we had a wireless electronic doorbell that I didn’t like much. I’m almost feeling ambitious enough to try to get a chime for the backyard — there is wiring for it. I figured out by using the internet — did a search on doorbell, and found http://doityourself.com/

Resounding YES!

I really liked my IR1000. It was easy to program, easy to bolus, etc. BUT I didn’t always check my blood sugar on time and I wasn’t always sure how to correct.

The IR1250 — but the IR1200 would have served the purpose as well — has made all the difference in the world on my control. It reminds me to test my blood sugar and tells me how much insulin I need. I’ve got it set to remind at 2 hours after the last bolus, and if I am busy can ignore it, and it will faithfully remind me until I tell it to stop.

Unfortunately because of the recall, I don’t use the food list enough. I’m also not sure I like the calorie king database because it uses more characters in the food names than the old database did. I’d kinda of like to have both databases!

I also like the fact that it is smaller, very few people notice I have it on which is a plus, but not entirely necessary.

Got back a little bit ago from the CDE visit. I related the last stress day at work to her and she indicated that it was entirely normal — basically I’d gotten another note to meet with the PTB and at the end of the meeting, my blood sugar had shot up to 210 — and I had been keeping it in the 100-150 range before than.

The sad part about that is that you don’t have any indication other than feeling bad, that your blood sugar has shot up that high. A lot of people will attribute that to the stress and not check.

I’m sticking on the Apidra for another month, and she’s hoping the Cleo clinical trial will start in July.

I see her again in 4 weeks.

I did tell her about my goal for the summer, which worried her a bit. Basically I want to take off the 12 pounds I gained from the stress this spring, and another 25 pounds. It won’t be a great loss if I don’t get quite that far.

I’ve got an appointment with my CDE and with the dentist. The fun part about the CDE appointment is that a drunk driver took out the bridge in front of the office. Also, the office has moved.

The fun part about the dentist, is that we start putting a crown on a tooth.

All things I’ve sort of put off — or just couldn’t do because of the school schedule.