This makes me nuts. Too many Type 2’s are not taught how to deal with their meter readings!
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services is questioning whether or not Patients with Type 2 Diabetes benefit from self-monitoring of their blood glucose and should they pay for monitor and strips.
Not only that, they didn’t see the weight gain in the Byetta group.
FYI: I went to the pump because when I was on MDI, I kept having to eat to avoid lows and I kept gaining weight. I have done much better on the pump. If Byetta had been available I probably would have tried that first. I’m happy with the pump life though.
Diabetes In Control – Exenatide As Effective As Insulin
Results from a study indicating that exenatide improves blood sugar levels as effectively as biphasic insulin aspart 30/70 (NovoMix 30(R), NovoNordisk) for people with type 2 diabetes failing to achieve acceptable blood sugar control on both metformin and a sulfonylurea. This long-term clinical trial is the second study conducted at European clinical centers demonstrating that exenatide can control blood sugar as effectively as insulin.
I have felt like doggy doo-doo and been severly congested since Saturday night. I’m pretty sure it’s fall inhalant allergy since Marcie feels just as bad, and we were both at an agility trial that might as well have been outside.
It was so bad I skipped out JWW runs and those are the legs I really want. Oh, and Marcie and I did qualify Saturday morning in Standard.
Here’s one way that food gets affected — every evening when the congestion, drainage, etc. is the worse, I crave orange juice and chicken soup. To be specific, for years I’ve treated severe congestion with the local fast food Chinese place’s won ton and egg drop soup. I have NO idea how to properly dose, especially since the side effect of allergy problems is a rise in blood sugar.
I wasn’t too far off, but I’m glad we did the blood draw for the A1c on Thursday.
Amy’s got a book coming out.
Diabetes Mine: Our New Book, Unveiled
So you know I’ve been working on a “mystery book” for a while. Well, it’s time for the wrapper to come off! Even though the cover design isn’t finished yet; this one’s just a temporary placeholder.
I got the hardest day done. Actually yesterday was hardest in my opinion. No dog agility for one.
Today I hosted for a group of about 9 webmastering teachers. I provided food and the entertainment. Came home and managed to get my workout in.
I should be able to get through the week now. Tomorrow is puppy agility, and I’m leaving straight from school tomorrow, so I have relaxation time. I don’t have an official cardio workout until Friday.
swissinfo – Roche insulin pump clears US paperwork hurdle
The “other” pump maker is back in the game. I believe it is a win-win for diabetes.
I managed to get in all my workouts last week. It did help that I played hookie on Thursday. I’m worried about week 7. I have three teacher workshops to do next week, plus dog class. At least we are out on Friday.
Also, I finally increase my cardio workout to 20 minutes. I’m still nursing a bad knee, and the other one is acting up too.
Wireless Monitoring of Diabetics – Medgadget – www.medgadget.com
With the loud objections in the diabetic community when NY City announced they were going to monitor A1C resutls, I can imagine the outcry when this gets going. Especially if not voluntary.
This is the hardest thing in the world for me to be compliant on. In fact, confession time, I have been treated for an eating disorder. I have been known to binge, but nothing “worse” like purging or others. I have also had a weight problem all of my adult life.
That being said, I was also misdiagnosed and treated for another psychological problem but it was later discovered that I was suffering from sleep deprivation. I do believe that my eating disorders are more symphtoms of sleep deprivation than anything else.
I do know that if I go low carb, my blood sugar is better, but makes my gastric reflux worse, which bothers my sleep. I’ve been learning that keeping carbs around 120-150 grams a day I overall do best.
Doing best means to have a minimum of gastric reflux sympthoms, keeping a blood sugar around 110 fasting, and under 180 post pranial. I have trouble doing that though.
Why?
One is the sleep deprivation thing. When I’m having trouble sleeping, food is the hardest thing to control. I make the wrong choices, and I tend to eat a few more carbs at night since that does help the sleep. At the same time, exercise is difficult because sleep deprivation makes my pain sympthoms worse.
The next thing is stress. I’ve tried all kinds of things to help me deal with stress. The first was to change my profession from maintenance programming to production programming but while that helped the sleep deprivation, the stress in that job was higher.
Now I teach, which means I get almost total control of my hours (except for next week, but that’s another post). My biggest problem though, is that I really take my job to heart. I know that what I do may affect my students’ future. Last year was the worst year for dealing with that, and I’m still not completely over that. Before their major tests I don’t sleep. I also don’t sleep when I worried about individual students, etc. I know that I shouldn’t let it get to me, but it does.
Most of the time, I can look at a food item and decide that it is’t worth the extra insulin, but sometimes I don’t. Most of the time I can handle the binging, but every once in a while, I just have to sit down with a bag of potato chips and just deal with the stress that way.
It’s a hard balancing act.
Diabetes Mine: Judgement Day: Disappointed
Although Amy is not quite as technology savvy as I am, I am still going to follow her lead on this. Seems that the Dexcom technology didn’t help her.
I do feel though that she is “handicapped” by sticking to shots. I still think she’ll do better on the pump. I sure have!