Went to get steriod shots today. Guess what?
Doc wouldn’t do them. They screw up your blood sugar.
Surgery a week from Saturday. He wanted to do it this Saturday but with husband gone I thought best to wait a week.
Not having time to think about it might have been good too.
This evening my blood sugar was 176. Instead of adding more insulin, I did 10 “laps” in the pool.
The pool was at 80, temperature was around 90 so it wasn’t too bad. Certainly better than yesterday.
But the cool part? After I got done, blood sugar was at 146.
And I’ve tolerated 58 units very well today, without adding any. That’s down from a high of 72 units of daily insulin (I haven’t taken good track of how much I’ve added from time to time).
If you are not a diabetic, you have no idea what kind of stress diabetics can be under.
I assume it is better for people on oral meds, but I have a feeling there are other stressors involved.
I hate to post about this, because I feel so stupid, but honestly I was just following instructions.
I have to say I am disappointed with this service.
For almost all of last week, they had a bug that processed mailing lists incorrectly. That makes me nuts.
Then early this week, my Inbox stopped working, and it took them over 24 hours to fix.
I don’t function well without working email.
So I’ve got my secondary addresses setup with them now.
And I’m using a competitor who they are suing over patents — spamarrest — working as my primary email spam filter.
I’ve been accused of statistical voyeurism in the past, and in anyone cares, here are two interesting reports — to me.
The first shows how much insulin I am taking:
Medication Totals from Diabetes Pilot
The second shows average glucose by hour and shows the details:
Average Glucose by Hour
Notice that even though I am reducing insulin, I am seeing pretty good control.
Well, MedRants and the rest of the web blogs are right.
It doesn’t pay to be a doctor any more — at least not in Dallas, and as a result, my doctor and his wife are going back to Oklahoma.
My husband has trouble with the concept, but that’s another long story and a bunch of really bad jokes…
He promised me he’d make sure I’d have a good doctor when he leaves. We’re going to do the next set of labs before then.
I’m VERY sad.
I’m still frustrated. I’m doing 45 min cardio or 30 min cardio + personal trainer 6 days a week and still losing the same 5 pounds over and over.
HOWEVER, some good news, and hopefully some light at the tunnel. Yesterday I was at 62 units of insulin and blood sugar levels stayed at good levels all day.
I’m going down to 60 today. That’s from a high of 72 units!
One of the reason I’m decreasing insulin levels, is that I am very close to hitting some lows throughout the day (and did hit one on Sunday).
It’s a fine balancing act, but I’m learning it.
One of my friends and I have a new motto. It’s “It’s Just One More THING!”
So the latest (one of several, but the one most related to diabetes)….
We have a pool. I’m STILL not sure it’s a good idea. We’ve had it since we’ve had this house, about 2 years.
Anyway, I was able to get in the pool. It was cold. 78 degrees, but it was fairly warm outside and I was still hot from the gym.
I managed to get across the pool 3 times, so add that with 30 minutes of cardio, 30 minutes of resistance training. Not bad.