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  • Off to a teacher workshop for the day

    I’ve got to go to a teacher workshop today. Hopefully they will feed us, they have for the last few, since I cancelled today’s food. The good news, is that the food has been healthy each time.

    I’ve already turned up my pump 50% and plan to test a lot. I’m trying to decide what to do about breakfast, it should probably be fairly low carb since my fasting was at 120.

    I’m still having problems with the GERD, I run out of Nexxium in a few days and will be going to Protonix again right after. I’m going to wait at least a week before I decide what to do.

    I’m still taking quite a bit less insulin, but my blood sugars have been slowly raising and I am currently about borderline control. I’ve decided to do 1/4 of my insulin dose for the next few days with the Symlin and see if that helps. Corrections never work as well as taking insulin with food.

    Weight is still good, though of course, I would like it to be lower. I’m at 266.x right now, and I’d love to be under 265.

    I’m close though.

  • Off to a teacher workshop for the day

    I’ve got to go to a teacher workshop today. Hopefully they will feed us, they have for the last few, since I cancelled today’s food. The good news, is that the food has been healthy each time.

    I’ve already turned up my pump 50% and plan to test a lot. I’m trying to decide what to do about breakfast, it should probably be fairly low carb since my fasting was at 120.

    I’m still having problems with the GERD, I run out of Nexxium in a few days and will be going to Protonix again right after. I’m going to wait at least a week before I decide what to do.

    I’m still taking quite a bit less insulin, but my blood sugars have been slowly raising and I am currently about borderline control. I’ve decided to do 1/4 of my insulin dose for the next few days with the Symlin and see if that helps. Corrections never work as well as taking insulin with food.

    Weight is still good, though of course, I would like it to be lower. I’m at 266.x right now, and I’d love to be under 265.

    I’m close though.

  • Continued Weirdness

    The good news first — my weight is back where it should be.

    The weirdness? I am still not bolusing for meals and only bolusing corrections and small ones at that. Well, breakfast was still fairly big — but I had a high carb breakfast yesterday.

    Insulin usage is rapidly decreasing.

    Tomorrow will be interesting since I’m doing the workshop thing.

  • Good news — No Crash!

    Made it through the school day without having a weird hypoglemic reaction. I really think that taking the Symlin right as I ate and not doing insulin is helping. Besides, I didn’t really need it.

    My blood sugar was 158 2 hours after the meal.

  • Disturbing

    While my activity level has gone up and my insulin usage has gone down, I’ve experienced a bit of a weight gain.

    I think my food intake has been fairly constant, so it’s pretty weird.

    Good news, though, while I had trouble going to sleep and it was an initial, pretty light sleep, I didn’t wake up with heartburn bothering me, and slept until the alarm clock went off. Maybe the Nexium is going to do the job.

  • Something weird is going on…

    I have dosed Symlin at lunch and dinner both days (Sunday and Saturday), and haven’t experienced another weird hypoglymic event.

    My blood sugar seems to be under good control too. I had a blood sugar of 155 after lunch, and one of 208 after dinner today, corrected both. As a result, my insulin usage is hitting new lows. I’m creeping down from an average of 38 units, to 35, and on my way down to around 30.

    I’m going to keep it up. Basically I’m dosing right at the meal, not giving myself insulin, and checking two hours after the meal and then doing a correction.

  • Pump Sighting

    Had my first pump sighting — my first clue was a teenager wearing a JDF Walk for A Cure tshirt, and sure enough she was wearing a pump — a minimed.

    I was at the grocery store, and she was with her mom. I said, “A mimimed? I wear an Animas”. We talked for a few seconds and went on.

    Pretty neat.

  • Preventing the crash

    I had been taking Symlin 30 minutes before meals, to try to match the curve better. That might be what caused the two crashes this week, so I ‘m going back to taking Symlin right before I eat.

    That will also make life a bit easier.

    FYI: The crash messages might show up again as new as I changed their category to Symlin, since I really think Symlin caused them.

  • Comments are back!

    Sorry, didn’t mean to do that, but I have my comments working again.

  • Another crash

    I had another Sylmin related blood sugar crash today. However, I forgot I didn’t take insulin during the last one.

    I did however, take insulin today. It seemed worse than the other one, but then I didn’t treat this one as quickly.

    Here’s what happened.

    I injected Symlin 30 minutes prior to eating. Ate lunch and bolused. Went back to my classroom, got ready for class, and started to teach, but like the other day, started feeling odd. Picked up the phone and asked my CDE what to do, and she said suck on hard candy all day. Then she said drink coke. Hung up from her, ate a life saver, waited a few minutes and asked one of the students to get one of the ROTC teachers. He didn’t understand me — I don’t know if it is because he doesn’t speak English yet, or if I wasn’t speaking English.

    So I picked up the phone and called the office, told them I didn’t know what I needed, but my blood sugar was low and I at least needed an English speaking adult to help me. The office manger called the nurse and sent her out. In the meantime, I was still crunching lifesavers.

    Got my blood sugar up to 155, nurse and I went back to the main building while a security guard watched my class.

    Ran into several administrators, we confessed to what was going on, though I kept saying — but I did everything the way I am supposed to.

    Anyway, I’m fine now, went back and taught the class, and stopped chewing lifesavers. Blood sugar stayed pretty even the rest of the day.

    Also talked to the CDE again, and we agree Symlin without insulin for a while — correct after meals when needed. Still doesn’t solve Tuesday’s issue, but at least maybe helps today.

    I don’t want to give up the symlin. It really makes losing weight easier.