I suppose people on insulin pumps have bad weeks, too. But I’m officially D-O-N-E with the last few, that’s for sure.<\/em><\/p>\n\nSeriously. Pumping is the only way to be a diabetic but it is EXPENSIVE, time consuming, mind consuming, etc. <\/p>\n
I have done it all — oral meds for about two months which drove me nuts. No matter what I ate, didn’t ate, etc, my blood glucose monitor insisted on being a random number generator.<\/p>\n
I’ve done MDI. Here’s the problem with MDI, you make a mistake, you roller coaster for days. Flat out, you are just stick with the insulin you take until it decides to leave.<\/p>\n
That’s true pumping too, but it decides to leave on a quicker basis. And yes it is ALL about the control!<\/p>\n
I’m lucky, the short term complications get me in a hurry. The first is blurred vision — if my blood sugar isn’t in normal range, I can’t read, and have trouble seeing. The second is bitchiness — if my blood sugar is too high, I’m hard to get along with. The third is congetive ability, I can’t program and I can’t teach as well if my blood sugar is too high.<\/p>\n
And remember make sure you are reading this at http:\/\/www.kweaver.org and if you are reading it at BattleDiabetes.com, it is stolen content!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Took her long enough to figure that out! Diabetes Mine: When MDI is B-A-D — Time to Pump I suppose people on insulin pumps have bad weeks, too. But I’m officially D-O-N-E with the last few, that’s for sure. Seriously. Pumping is the only way to be a diabetic but it is EXPENSIVE, time consuming, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1937"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1937\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}