It’s actually the one year anniversary of my ordering my pump.<\/p>\n
I was diagnosed with probably Type 2 diabetes, in September 2002. I
\nspent a few very unsuccessful weeks with Metaforum and then went to
\nshots, after finding that the side effects of the meds didn’t go real
\nwell with classroom teaching.<\/p>\n
Shots wasn’t too bad, but I gained weight, I have a needle phobia, and
\nyou really don’t want a lot of syringes around high school kids, in an
\nurban high school environment.<\/p>\n
Plus I had lousy control. I’m “lucky”. I’m very sensitive to blood
\nsugar, and I’m not comfortable unless my blood sugar is between 120
\nand 160. My vision blurs and I become a b*tch as it raises. I even
\nget dizzy if I have more than about a 10 point drop in blood sugar —
\nwhich presents its own interesting sympthoms.<\/p>\n
I had been researching the pump and trying to get my insurance to pay
\nfor it, with no luck.<\/p>\n
I realized quickly that I had to do something if I was going to
\nsurvive the school year. My blood sugar was exceeding 350 while we
\nwere in staff development. So the first morning I didn’t have to be
\nin meetings, I went to the doctor’s office and told him I was going to
\nthe pump, got in the car and ordered my Animas IR1200.<\/p>\n
Best move I’ve ever made. Took a while, but this week, my blood sugar
\nhasn’t exceeded 200. It finally normalized to pre-staff development
\nlevel today and I’m predicting a change in basal next week. In fact,
\neven discussed it already with the endo.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
It’s actually the one year anniversary of my ordering my pump. I was diagnosed with probably Type 2 diabetes, in September 2002. I spent a few very unsuccessful weeks with Metaforum and then went to shots, after finding that the side effects of the meds didn’t go real well with classroom teaching. Shots wasn’t too […]<\/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-3318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current-status"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318","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=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kweaver.org\/diabetes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}