It’s almost the end of the year, and we STILL don’t have a continuous blood glucose monitor for patient use. Right now, Minimed has one that doctors can order and you wear for 3 days, but there is no real time readout.
Both Therasense — now owned by Abbott and Minimed were supposed to have one out by the end of the year.
Well, we have a couple of weeks yet, but I’m not holding my breath.
I’m stll having trouble with the not sleeping thing. The worst part, is that I really can’t control my eating when I don’t sleep, especially evening eating — which then means that I have most problems with gastric reflux, meaning I have more trouble not sleeping.
Lovely catch 20-20.
This is back on the Depo Prevera thing — they called today to tell me they were shipping it FedEx and would I be available for delivery on Friday (yes, they will leave it on the door step, probably).
I still can’t believe it is cheaper for them to sell a 12 week only injectible via mail order that they have to FedEx, than it is for me to pick it up at the local pharmacy every 12 weeks.
Weird.
Medco makes me wonder some times… I decided to stick with Depo, and I’ve being charged full price for Depo. If I go with the new generic, it is still is pretty costly, but if I use the mail order portion, the price drops substantially.
So I called the ob/gyn office and requested a script and sent it out, and now I’m waiting for the Depo. The really good news, is that I don’t need it until around the 10th of January.
One of the side effects of sleep apnea going without treatment for so long is chronic insomnia. I’m VERY weird. My bedroom is at the front road side of the house and most of the time it isn’t a problem, but we had a drunk hit the electric pole across the street at 2:00 am which woke me up. Then the power company was repairing it the rest of the morning. Between the police flashing lights, the TXU lights, their trucks and the dog being scared, I just couldn’t sleep and haven’t been able to since.
I’m waiting for a few hours, as I am almost completely strung out, and I’m going to hit the bed and I’ll probably be okay as long as I can sleep uninterrupted.
My record was during the time period from the time my good friend Aubrey Hawkins was killed by the Texas Seven on Christmas eve, until about a week after they were caught. I couldn’t sleep at all then. And had trouble again when I found out they were staying at a hotel a few miles from the house. But I think just sleeping one night through will do the trick.
Obstructive Sleep Apnea
I tend not to read blogs unless they have an RSS feed (using Sharp Reader), but I’ll make a point to keep up with this fellow, since
a) I have sleep apena
b) most of my extended family live in Brandon, MS, a surburb of Jackson, and the neice is in training to be a nurse in there.
I’d like to find a doctor like him in the north Dallas area. I’m not as happy as I could be with my current doctor.
First Human Trials Scheduled for Diabetes Vaccine – Elites TV – Your Elite News Source
One of the reasons I suspect stem cells won’t be successful is the same reason that Islet transplants haven’t been very successful. There is something ELSE going on.
After we fix the something else, the body will probably regenerate or THEN islet transplant will be successful.
There are photos of the beagles with Santa. I’ll have our Christmas website up tomorrow — I’m going to use that to demo to my webmastering students.
http://www.kweaver.org/photo_archives/christmas_2004/index.php
What happens when patients find out how good their doctors really are?
Very fascinating reading and I wish that the ADA would get in on a similar bandwagon as the CFA has.