Category: Current Status

My heartburn is finally subsiding, and I actually got my insulin usage below 60 units today without trying. I tweaked my correction factor by 1, so that should help bring usage down too.

Here’s what I find: the more I eat, the more insulin I use. That sounds like a big duh, but I don’t mean that when I eat twice as many carbs, I use twice as much insulin. It’s closer to twice as many carbs, three times or four times more insulin. If you read pumping insulin, it does make sense. Dr. Bernstein lives by that — he calls it “small numbers”.

But Atkins (and the rest of the lo-carb gang are right). The more carbs you eat the more you crave. I get in this vicious cycle.

So yeah, I COULD eat what I want with pump, but that means I use more insulin, crave more carbs, gain more weight.

If I eat less carbs, slower carbs, I stay off the roller coaster and the cravings.

YMMV (Your milage may vary).

I managed to do 40 minutes of cardio (though I had to split it and eat dinner in the middle as I started to go low).

I’m still having reflux problems so I’m doubling up on the Protonix.

But the best part, is that I haven’t had food craving problems all day to day.

4 full days, 4 exam days, 1 teacher day. (Yes, I counting).

GERD and constipation.

I have the worst case of heartburn, but as I am able to cut down on the amount of food I eat and when I eat, it should go away.

I am losing weight though, once I get past the constipation. And I feel better. Mostly because my blood sugar isn’t swinging — and it is definately not swinging now! And it is fairly low.

If I can keep this up a bit longer, my carb ratios should go back down.

Woke up this morning with good blood sugar. First time it wasn’t too high in weeks. However, I did get woke up by a thunderstorm and power failure and was able to check and adjust twice.

The best news though, is that I’m getting my insulin usage more stable. I’m back down to below 65 consistently and was between 80-100.

Best news — we’ve got 5 more full days.

Bad news — I’m getting anxious and want to get started on my classes, but can’t until June 6.

I’ve been able to stick to very reduced carb, and keep my insulin dosage low. I’ve also been able to keep my blood sugar under 200 for about two days. If I can keep it up, I know things will get better.

I think I’m going to make it. We’ve got two weeks with kids, and then one teacher workday. And actually, we’ve got one full week with kids, then we go to the exam schedule. Two weeks from today is final check out.

Blood sugar was high this morning, and I’ve got the dentist to deal with this evening. He’s supposed to do two fillings in my lower jaw, but they aren’t bothering me, and the tooth next to the one he just worked on broke. It hasn’t bothered me, so I’ve waited.

I’m finally getting my blood sugar where I want it. It’s been horrible lately — even did an A1C, and it’s the highest it’s been in ages. 7.4 I was getting better A1C on MDI!

The key is to stay full without affecting blood sugar. That means lots of protein and lots of salad.

Once I can get the blood sugar down and under control, the cravings go away and food isn’t a problem anymore.

In case anyone is wondering, yes, I am still working out, but between the stress at the workplace AND mostly messing with Apidra, my eating has been out of control.

I’m still on the treadmill almost every day and doing weight almost every day and using iShape to schedule and track that. I REALLY REALLY recommend iShape, and I’m going to start taking full advantage of their message boards again.

Just finished the final on my master’s education class. This means that I have two classes left and will be doing them this summer.

I think this is a fairly new pump, if not brand new. It has a date of 2005-04.

I had some problems — I thought I should be able to just download the old pump, save the settings to a file and then upload those settings to the new pump, but no….

I sent an email to support about it.

Good news, is that I know have their email and can contact them directly. It’s hard sometimes from school, even using their webpage, but I can always do email.