It really does.<\/p>\n
I’ve been diabetic — officially diagosed — over 4 years now. I’ve done it a bunch of different ways. <\/p>\n
When I was first diagnosed I was on oral meds. It drove me nuts. Nothing I did really affected my blood sugar. And I couldn’t get my blood sugar down fast enough to suit me. You have to know that I went from almost normal blood sugars, to really screwed up blood sugars in the space of literally hours (for those who are new to me and the blog, I was pre-diabetes for years, but didn’t get diagnosed until I “flunked” a glucose tolerance test. I suspect that I had been doing a pretty fair job at controlling things through diet and exercise, up until the test.<\/p>\n
I switched to MDI pretty quickly and tried that route for almost a year, but kept gaining weight. I also had a problem with rollar coasting blood sugars.<\/p>\n
My life has really changed for the better because of the pump. It allows a lot of flexibility — and I don’t even utilize everything that makes it good. For example, ever since the recall, I have not been using the Food list, and I should. Lately I’ve been slowly working on customizing mine.<\/p>\n
I also don’t use the temporary basal enough. I’m trying to use it more though. <\/p>\n
I really think that more Type 2’s should consider pumping. It really DOES make a difference.<\/p>\n
However, diabetes still sucks.<\/p>\n
I’ve gone low with no explaination, I’ve gone high with no explaination. The only way to deal with it, is test often, and fix whatever goes wrong when it goes wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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