Just heard from my CDE and she agrees to up the dose and said to feel free to drop it back down if I can’t tolerate it.<\/p>\n
So I’m on 20 units now.<\/p>\n
Benefits so far:<\/strong> I’m definately losing weight, though I’ve also upped my cardio this week. <\/p>\n Insulin usage is down.<\/p>\n Cons so far<\/strong> Supplies — I have to carry syringes and another vial in my daily pack. I was carrying syringes before. I do try to keep the carrying weight down.<\/p>\n One more thing to keep up with.<\/p>\n Math — I have to remember to half the carbs when I do symlin.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Just heard from my CDE and she agrees to up the dose and said to feel free to drop it back down if I can’t tolerate it. So I’m on 20 units now. Benefits so far: It is definately making eating easier to control. I don’t feel hunger as often, and feel full more. I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-symlin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714","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=2714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2714\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nIt is definately making eating easier to control. I don’t feel hunger as often, and feel full more. I have been able to drop my calorie intake without feeling deprive.<\/p>\n
\nInjections — one of the reasons I went to the pump. The pump manufactures need to find a way to deal with this.<\/p>\n