Actually I fill like I am runing a lot low. I was running a bit low all weekend, and then this morning, two hours after breakfast was at 90, and a bit confused. It got worse.
I ended up eating about 4 lifesavers with no insulin.
My blood sugar at lunch was 90, and is 130 now, 2 hours after lunch with a few gulps of real Coke.
This is probably a side effect of the weight I have been losing.
Last night was the first time since I’ve been playing around with medication that I slept all night. I did a Protonix in the morning and again at night. So that looks like that is the best solution. That was even after eating a salad after 8:00 pm and some Snickers minatures (blood sugar was lower than I like to go to bed with).
I’ll have to contact the doctor’s office and get that going.
I finally got my MacMini set up downstairs in my “gym”. It took reinstalling everything, because I never could get the display to work with it, with the resolution I had set up on the good monitor upstairs, and I couldn’t get the MacMini to stay at a lower resolution. Very odd.
But that’s okay.
More weirdness. I bought a cheap Mac keyboard from Fry’s, and it wouldn’t work on it, even though I could get a PC keyboard to work through it’s USB port. And Fry’s could get it to work on their computer. I got a replacement though and it works fine.
I’ve pretty much have it set up the way I want.
I’ll probably get a second one later, as I love the form factor. I would like this one to be wireless and to have more memory.
Last Friday I was freaking out, because I wasn’t using as much insulin and I had a hypoglymic episode. Today I was fighting high blood sugars all day.
So here’s what my day was like —
Once a semester, I take a class period off, and teach a class on operant conditioning for one of my best friends. We show operant conditioning in action with Marcie, my beagle. We’ve done this for a bunch of years.
So I left the house early, with her in tow.
A meeting was scheduled in my classroom at 8:00 am, and the presenter met me outside my classroom as I am dropping my things off, so I take an extra few minutes to set up my computer and video projector for her.
I then have 1st period, and I get two new students. One a new enrollee, who knows from where, and another kid is a REALLY poorly behaved student. Also one of my kiddos showed up, after a not seeing him for about two weeks, and he had to make sure everyone knew he was there. At first I thought it was the dog, but once I got rid of those two — the one went to content mastery, I sent the other out because he wouldn’t calm down.
4th period, just as I finish lunch, my ELI specialist showed up. I knew she was coming but not sure what she planned. She observed me teaching 4th period, and we spent my planning period going over what happened and how I should do thing.
I “fixed” the things she pointed out and taught my 6th period class. It was a good thing, but hard on the blood sugar apparently.
I was absolutely done in 7th period, but I did finally make it home. Of course, no planning got done, and no papers got graded and I’m going to have to do all this weekend.
My blood sugar is finally back down, but I’m up to 40 units again today with no additional calories.
Not only have see better A1C’s since starting insulin, I’ve done something I haven’t been able to do without it.
Lose weight. I’ve lost around 25 pounds since starting Symlin in June. I had previously lost around 15 pounds over a year time period, and it was a horrible struggle.
Losing weight on Symlin is extremely easy.
I’ve reduced my daily insulin usage from over 120 units per day to recently around 33 units. My A1C went from 6.9 to 6.0
I have not gone completely without problems. With the weight lose comes constant diligence to insure that I don’t go low. In fact, I had two hypoglymic events last week. It’s taken some time to figure it out, but I’ve determined that I can no longer dose prior to the meal, but have to dose immediately. I had been dosing 30 minutes before the meal to avoid a high blood sugar reading post prandial. We’re figuring with the weight lose, I’ve also gotten a reduction in insulin resistance.
I’ve gotten very good at tweaking bolus rates.
Not only have see better A1C’s since starting insulin, I’ve done something I haven’t been able to do without it.
Lose weight. I’ve lost around 25 pounds since starting Symlin in June. I had previously lost around 15 pounds over a year time period, and it was a horrible struggle.
Losing weight on Symlin is extremely easy.
I’ve reduced my daily insulin usage from over 120 units per day to recently around 33 units. My A1C went from 6.9 to 6.0
I have not gone completely without problems. With the weight lose comes constant diligence to insure that I don’t go low. In fact, I had two hypoglymic events last week. It’s taken some time to figure it out, but I’ve determined that I can no longer dose prior to the meal, but have to dose immediately. I had been dosing 30 minutes before the meal to avoid a high blood sugar reading post prandial. We’re figuring with the weight lose, I’ve also gotten a reduction in insulin resistance.
I’ve gotten very good at tweaking bolus rates.
Pressure On Pumped Insulin – Forbes.com
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Pressure On Pumped Insulin – Forbes.com
Recently we made the comment that in our view the insulin pump market was growing at 12% to 14% a year, rather than the 20% mentioned in the Animas conference call. Several subscribers have asked how we came upon our numbers.
First, I survived the workshop almost — except that the presenter showed up late (she claimed she was told 8:30), and half the participants did too.
Sorry, but my email said 8:00 am, and that means 8:00 am, not 8:30, and certainly not 9:00.
I started geting a bit too low at lunch, but that was because a) they didn’t serve us lunch, and b) I had to walk into a cave to get lunch. Next time (on the 14th), I’ll be bringing my own.
I wish that my coworkers had a bit more tact, both of them showed up extremely late. Also, one didn’t notice that I had very carefully staked out an end of the table so that no one would sit next to me. Instead, he sat down on top of me. I’m sorry but I do not like people breathing on my testing equipment, especially when I am using it, and I do not like people who attempt to read what I am doing on my Treo (Palm computer). The worst part, is that everytime I got up to use the restroom, his chair was closer to mine when I got back. He’s not from the US, and certainly not from the south and has not realized cultural bounderies.
Of course, I don’t know why I was surprised he was late, (actually I wasn’t). So far he has not every once been on time to any thing.
Yes, I was in a nasty mood yesterday and it really never got better. Not having the correct materials and the presenter not having them either didn’t help. Yes, it was a bit of disaster.
But the rest of the good news! I got on the scale this morning and weighed 264.6. A new low! I’m still being very careful not to go into starvation mode, but at the same time I’m trying to lose enough weight to make some difference on the GERD. Obviously I’m a long way from that, since I was awake again at 4:30 today and couldn’t get back to sleep. I really don’t want to do the surgery thing, but it is looking more and more that I might have to.
I go back on the Protonix in a few days, so I’ll have to see how that works out.
First, I survived the workshop almost — except that the presenter showed up late (she claimed she was told 8:30), and half the participants did too.
Sorry, but my email said 8:00 am, and that means 8:00 am, not 8:30, and certainly not 9:00.
I started geting a bit too low at lunch, but that was because a) they didn’t serve us lunch, and b) I had to walk into a cave to get lunch. Next time (on the 14th), I’ll be bringing my own.
I wish that my coworkers had a bit more tact, both of them showed up extremely late. Also, one didn’t notice that I had very carefully staked out an end of the table so that no one would sit next to me. Instead, he sat down on top of me. I’m sorry but I do not like people breathing on my testing equipment, especially when I am using it, and I do not like people who attempt to read what I am doing on my Treo (Palm computer). The worst part, is that everytime I got up to use the restroom, his chair was closer to mine when I got back. He’s not from the US, and certainly not from the south and has not realized cultural bounderies.
Of course, I don’t know why I was surprised he was late, (actually I wasn’t). So far he has not every once been on time to any thing.
Yes, I was in a nasty mood yesterday and it really never got better. Not having the correct materials and the presenter not having them either didn’t help. Yes, it was a bit of disaster.
But the rest of the good news! I got on the scale this morning and weighed 264.6. A new low! I’m still being very careful not to go into starvation mode, but at the same time I’m trying to lose enough weight to make some difference on the GERD. Obviously I’m a long way from that, since I was awake again at 4:30 today and couldn’t get back to sleep. I really don’t want to do the surgery thing, but it is looking more and more that I might have to.
I go back on the Protonix in a few days, so I’ll have to see how that works out.