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  • Exercise – Getting Back – Day 4

    Got up and got it done early. Though my knee is really bothering me.

  • Exercise – Getting Back – Day 3

    Yesterday was another off day, thank goodness, it was a long day. I did get today’s workout in, which was a strength only day.

  • Exercise – Getting Back – Day 2

    Got Day 2 in (yesterday was my off day — I have two dog agility classes that night.

  • Gastric Bypass Better

    Diabetes In Control Newsletter – Study Compares Gastric Bypass and Gastric Banding Surgeries

    This is what I was told by a surgion.

    Study Compares Gastric Bypass and Gastric Banding Surgeries

  • Exercise – Getting Back – Day 1

    I’m just finished my iShape program for today and my goal is to get back to the program.

    I had to quit because I injured my knee a few weeks ago, and besides the fact that it hurt to walk, I didn’t have time for exercise AND physical therapy.

  • More Medco Games

    Actually the good news, is that I have all my scripts I’ve ordered this month, except the syringes.  I am trying very hard not to spend any more medical money until the 1st though, because that’s when my Flexible Spending Account starts again.

    The latest game involves Requip, which I do believe is helping me to sleep.  Apparently (and I don’t blame them), they don’t want to fill the prescription with 2 1 mg tablets, but I am hoping they and the doctor’s office will finally see eye to eye and fill it.  I would not mind 1 2mg tablets at all.  I’m going to get with the doctor’s nurse on it Monday.

  • Medco games

    I’ve learned a lot about Symlin.

    Medco has started shipping my Symlin and Novolog (insulin) without telling me.

    Yesterday I got a hot batch of Symlin. The gel packs were cold but at one end of the package and the Symlin was hot.

    I put it all in the fridge but decided to try it to see if it was still good. it wasn’t. Clearly after two doses.

    I did leave the rest of the shipment in the fridge.

    I left that bottle out in the shipping contents and called Medco at 6:00 am.

    They told me that it would be good as long as it was rechilled so I took a second vial out and used it.

    Apparently they are right as it is working fine now.

    I even called the 1800 number for Symlin and they said that they can tell if a vial is good if you give them the worst possible temperature, the lot, and the expiration date. they did say it was good.

    FYI: I told the Medco pharmacist that if they packed with the Symlin in the middle with the gel packs at each end it would have been cool and he sais he couldn’t comment but would pass my comment on.

    Guess what? That is exactly how my Novolog was packed and it was cold.

    Go figure.

  • I definately find it to be true

    Diabetes In Control Newsletter – Postprandial Glucose Fluctuations Impair Cognitive Functioning

    Awareness and better control of postprandial glucose can help to prevent declining cognitive function.

  • I agree!

    Diabetes In Control Newsletter – A Tale of Two Insulin Pumps

    Diabetes has been an interest of mine throughout pharmacy school. I am now in my final year of school, and I recently experienced a small glimpse into the life of a person with insulin-dependent diabetes. I do not have diabetes, but during my last clerkship rotation, I lived for four weeks as if I did. I tested my blood glucose and injected imitation insulin (actually saline). I was also given the opportunity to wear two insulin pump devices, both unique in their own way.

  • Tips for Saving Money

    Candid Diabetes: Tips For Saving Money With Diabetes

    However, I don’t recommend buying test strips from Ebay. You have no idea where they came from.