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  • Good Endo appointment but bad lab results

    I’ve just gotten my worst A1C since pumping.  7.7.  Man that sucks.

    Doctor is attributing the travel and related stress.  I hope he is right.

    He also noticed, without me pointing it out, that I’ve been high a lot of evenings and am still high in the morning.  We tweaked some bolus settings.  I’ve working on better strategies — I was going low a lot in the evenings when I first started working out with Fitness4Diabetics but as I shift my walking to earlier in the day, I’m not doing that any more.

    I also got “approval” to use the Dexcom rather than finger sticks.  Okay, I’ve been using the Dexcom to decide if I was in range, and then used the One Touch to get the actually reading to calculate the correction.  I’m going to start skipping that step when the Dexcom is looking good.

    Some other medical news — had my second Synvist shot today.  And my knees passed the school stair test — I went down the stairs the best I’ve had in years.  Man those are steep stair cases.

    I have also managed to walk for 60 minutes per day every day for almost two weeks.  I’m slowly moving my schedule towards a school schedule since I report in 2 weeks.

    The good news is that the rest of my values were good.

  • Dexcom – Day 10

    I’m having trouble with the adhesive and figure the transmitter will be coming off soon.  I’m still getting good readings, though I do occasionally get ???

  • Dexcom Seven – Day 9

    The receiver seems much more stable now — I really had an interesting day yesterday when about half the time I looked at the receiver I had ??? and lots of gaps in readings.

    Last night there were very few gaps and Dexcom is reading close to the meter (but under it).

    I go to the endo on Monday and I still haven’t figured out how to handle all the data — do I put it in EzManager for example.

  • Dexcom Seven – Day 8

    I forgot how frustrating the first day of a sensor can be — and yesterday my sensor acted just like a brand new sensor.  Missing readings mostly but also off.  The weird thing, is that my sensor was slightly higher than the meter before resetting and now it is reading slightly lower than the meter.

  • Bret Michaels – Reality Show

    Since Amy blogged about it and it’s been in all the diabetes media, I took the time to watch the show tonight.  Besides not much on TV anyway.

    It was the motorcross episode.

    The show makes Gene Simmon’s family look smart.  Also Shannon and the daughter are much more attractive than any of the women on the show.

    My husband joined me before the end of the show, and he wasn’t impressed either.

    It’s really sad if that truly is the only way he can meet women. 

    On the other hand, it looks like it is pretty easy money. And probably a lot of fun for a single guy — though it would be nice if they could have found better women.

  • Dexcom Seven – Day Seven – Restart

    I did get the Sensor to stop and restart — and am getting readings again.  So you can definitely get the Dexcom Seven to go more than 7 days.

    Here’s one really interesting issue.  I had to do three fingersticks to get the system to start.  The first two were almost at the same time and were 138 and 126.  The third fingerstick about 5 minutes later was 144.  The sensor is now reading 121.

    I’m beginning to believe that Dexcom is the accurate one and really wish I could use a more modern meter.

  • Dexcom Insurance?

    I just checked my claims with BCBS of Texas, primarily because of the Symvist treatmeat and saw that Dexcom is showing as an unpaid claim.  It will be interesting to see if it gets covered.

  • Dexcom Seven – Day 7

    I continued experimenting dosing using Seven.  Yes, it works.

    Sensor is still on and working.  I got the sensor expiration screen this morning.  I just told it I had moved the sensor, and then told it I put in a new sensor.

  • Dexcom – Day 6

    Since I wasn’t doing anything yesterday, I decided to give it a try of dosing on the Dexcom and cutting down on the number of finger sticks.  Saw no adverse problems.

    I do find that the steadier I keep my blood sugar the more accurate the Dexcom Seven is — but that was true of the STS-3 system too.

    I should be having to “change” my sensor soon.

  • Dexcom Seven – Day 5

    I sweated off my insertion set last night and figured I had sweated off the transmitter too, but it is still on and still giving good data.

    I did too much yesterday, got out of the truck really really stiff, but I’m really no worse today than I usually am after dog agility.

    Ran into my endo while I was getting my blood drawn and showed him the Dexcom. He was impressed.