{"id":2648,"date":"2005-07-20T20:38:21","date_gmt":"2005-07-20T20:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/tight-control-2\/"},"modified":"2005-07-20T20:38:21","modified_gmt":"2005-07-20T20:38:21","slug":"tight-control-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/tight-control-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Tight Control"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/rnweb.adv100.com\/rnweb\/article\/articleDetail.jsp?id=168165\">Tight Control article<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Now that I have my summer back &#8230;<\/p>\n<p>I tried the MDI (Multiple Daily Injection) method of tight control and it almost made me nuts.  I could not keep a constant schedule.  Summer was the utter living end of that for me, especially the teacher workshop thing.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and the school year where they changed our lunch periods every 4 weeks. <shudder><\/p>\n<p>I can&#8217;t imagine going back to shots and keeping this tight control.  Today is a good example.  Let&#8217;s say that I ended up burning more blood sugar than I had planned.  Now, while I might be able to figure out I need 40% more insulin than usual on a workshop day, and I could probably do a rough estimate and give myself a bigger long acting insulin dose, there is no way to guarantee WHEN that insulin would get released.  Also, there is no way to change my mind once I give it.<\/p>\n<p>With the pump, if I had checked at 10:00 and saw I was going towards low, I would have eaten a Snicker minature and then turned off the temporary basal.  If I did it the shot way, I&#8217;d probably have to eat a large Snicker&#8217;s minature, causing some weight gain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tight Control article Now that I have my summer back &#8230; I tried the MDI (Multiple Daily Injection) method of tight control and it almost made me nuts. I could not keep a constant schedule. Summer was the utter living end of that for me, especially the teacher workshop thing. Oh, and the school year [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diabetic-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648","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=2648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2648\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}