Category: Current Status

I got a bit delusional today.

Woke up and blood sugar was in the 90’s. Got up, dressed and headed out the door for a private agility lesson. Picked up eggs and bacon at McDonald’s. Tested blood sugar after the lesson and was in the 90’s still. Ate two square Snickers, did a facility rental and checked the blood sugar again and was at 120.

Got to wondering if the recent walking, sticking to things, etc was working better than expected and did I really need the pump.

Well, I do.

Got a depo shot and then ate lunch. Two hours after lunch, blood sugar was 214.

Good news, is that after 50 minutes of cardio and weights and two hours after dinner, I was back in the 120’s.

I finally have the second blood pressure medication being processed by Medco. I’m not sure where the problem happened. I figure I’m going to do something about the Restatis this weekend, especially since I’m still having problems with my contacts and dry eyes.

I’m a bit late in this …

I’ve had my insulin pump for 1 1/2 years, and I’ve had my treadmill for about a year.

I lost about 30 pounds in the last year, my A1C has dropped from 7.0 to a low of 6.2, and last was 6.6

I got my pump in August, and in September my husband broke his hip in September. He was on crutches and in bad shape until December.

I was doing an okay job with working out while I had a gym membership, but didn’t get REALLY good at it until I set up the gym in the house with a treadmill and free weights.

I signed up with iShape back in February. iShape has been invaluable in helping me keep up with an exercise program.

A few more milestones

went from 1.5 mph on the treadmill to 2.5
insulin usage from 100-120 units a day to 40-50 units

For some reason, not sure why, one of my computers have stopped booting. It appears that the system drive on that computer has gone south.

So I reloaded Windows on it, and when I was trying to recover, my fastest computer lost it’s operating system too. Neither computer has anything on it that can’t be recovered — I keep all my data either on my servers or on my file server — though I DO need to remember to back all that data up soon.

Very weird.

And then when I woke up, my set was disconnected (from my insulin pump), so right now I’m not getting any insulin.

It can’t be too long because my blood sugar is 117.

I hate to put it back until I’ve had a shower, and I don’t want to do a shower until I’ve done my workout, so I think I’ll go a little while off pump and maybe do an injection if I need it.

Weird …

I did sleep until I naturally woke up, in fact, woke up twice and went back to bed, but think I’m going to stay up now. Hopefully I’ll get my sleep fixed since I was running short last week.

And finally — husband is going to book our trip this weekend, so I am DEFINATELY going to Monte Carlo in March.

It’s sad because Medco hasn’t gotten a single prescription wrong in a year, and all of a sudden they are screwing up.

First, I went to the eye doctor and asked for a 90 day script on Restatis. He supposedly faxed it to Medco and they filled it as a 30 day script but charged me the 30 day price. NOW, their pharmacists knew that was a screw up and should have followed up on it — IF he wrote that way.

The almost good news is they are charging me the 30 day price.

Second screw up — I ordered two scripts at once, which needed to be refilled by the doctor’s office. I don’t know if the doctor didn’t understand their form, or if they fouled it up on there in, but only one of the scripts is being filled. And it’s a blood pressure, generic, that costs very little, heck it would be a good candidate for over the counter.

ARGH!

Looks like I am going to Monte Carlo for spring break. Not exactly my first or even second choice, but my husband won a poker tournament through Poker Stars that is sponsoring him to play in the european equivalent to the World Series of Poker.

I have a bunch of issues, like power adapters for my CPAP, can I use it on the airline, etc.

Sometime in November, I stopped sleeping. As a result, I couldn’t control my eating at all, and then I stopped being able to work out. About all I could do, was to control my blood sugar, but my insulin usage spiked up to around 100 units a day. As a result, I regained some of the weight I lost, and was just miserable.

My carb ratio went back to around 1:8, all the gains I had made were lost.

It’s taken weeks to recover from that.

I had to get the sleep under control first. I then could start doing strength and cardio, but had to really break up the sessions to even get them done. However, I still wasn’t losing weight. I was maintaining, but not losing.

Well, over this break, I’ve managed to get it just about back. My insulin usage is back down to under 40 units a day, and my blood sugar has been extremely stable. In fact, it’s been in the 90’s fasting, and staying pretty flat. I’ve had to do a few almost carb free days to get there, but that’s okay.

I still haven’t lost all the weight I gained, but I’m getting there.

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I’ve blogrolled it. Wish it had an RSS feed, I’d read more of it more often.

I REALLY REALLY like my new dentist. He does the teeth cleaning himself — but I think it’s more because this is an area where it is difficult to get hygenist. He still hasn’t touched the temporary filling, and I think by the time he does, I’m know him well enough it won’t bother me.

He wants me to get them cleaned every 4 months, which I agree is a good idea since diabetics do have problems with gums and gum disease.

DB’s Medical Rants ? Reggie White, RIP

I’m anxious to hear the details about this myself, being a CPAP patient and being extremely compliant.

I’ve seen two causes listed now, but nothing official and we probably won’t get official results for several weeks.