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Posted in: Blog Posts in Diabetes Type 1
For the first time since my diagnosis I was legitimately freaking out about my A1c. From August to October I had so many changes in my life that I just didn't know how my average blood sugar was going to react. After the Ironman I had blood sugars sky rocket into the 200 and 300 range. When I first arrived at Darden the schedule, free food an...
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The good news is, I'm still getting my constant glucose monitor; the bad news is, I have no idea when. At first Abbot had given my supplier the wrong insurance information which delayed the process a week. Today I received a call from my supplier letting me know that all orders to Abbot for the Freestyle Navigator are on back order!!! For a c...
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Today I received a phone call that I've been awaiting for nearly a year. I checked my voice mail after class today and had a message from Angela of Abbott Pharmaceutical, normally the conversation with her would have me complaining about Abbott's lack of communication regarding the freestyle navigator with me - but today was different. Today w...
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Wow - talk about getting triple teamed by bloods sugar demons! Last Friday began our finals for Q1 at Darden, right after I finished our hellish marketing exam I hoped on a plane to fly to Geneva, NY for one of my best friend's wedding. The lack of sleep, amount of travel and excess of wine has shot my blood sugars through the roof. Although the...
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Doesn't mean my blood sugars need to give me a lesson in standard deviations and variability. Yesterday I felt awful, but as so many of us have realized just because our blood sugars are all over the place doesn't stop our life from continuing. High blood sugars that were resistant to insulin started Sunday evening. My basal rates continue to...
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Two things occurred in the past 24 hours that have completely convinced me to go on the pump. Last night I was battling some lows - my Dad's 66 th birthday was last week and last night I was able to have a slice of cake with him. To account for the pizza my family had for dinner I took 6 units of novolog and added 4 units for the cake. I star...
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My experiment with the Animas 2020 has continued and I've been pretty pleased with the results. Alot of my fears about how I'd react to the pump have really been alleviated. After the first cannula fell out I had some issues getting a new one in. The first time I tried to put a new cannula in I forgot to remove the plastic needle guard; the se...
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I've been on multiple injections since my diagnosis and each endo I've spoken with thinks it would be a great move for me to go on the pump. I'm constantly fighting lows after I work out and basically need to make sure that my blood sugar is around 250 if I'm going to run and 200 if I'm going to lift. A 30 minute run drops my blood sugar about...
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I did proclaim my love of the Animas pump after my brief trial but in the interest of fairness and information I have decided to go on a similar saline trial with the Minimed 522 pump. After this trial I will be able to report on the pluses and minuses of each pump and really make an informed decision about which device will help me best contro...
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Since my diagnosis on April 2 nd my workouts have been limited to half hour runs and hour lifts. Yesterday I was finally able to make it back onto my bike for what I hoped would be an out and back from Manhattan to Rockland Lake (about 70 miles). I started the day with a blood sugar of 110 and had half a cliff bar with no bolus shot. I felt g...
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One of the major differences between pumps is how they count insulin on board ( IOB ); Minimed pumps use pharmodynamics while Animas uses pharmokinetics. Currently Diabetes Mine has some more information about this. As I understand it pharmodynamics takes the cellular level of insulin present to deliver a bolus shot; this reduces the amount of...
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I was recently at the kickoff party for the Young Friend's of the Naomi Berri Center; 4 of the "friends" were diabetics, each of us had been diagnosed after our 17th birthday. It seems that a diagnosis of Type 1 diabetes later in life has become more common over the past decade. This morning CNN.com ran an article about a 49 year old woman who...
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After driving back to the city from my parent's house on Saturday night I decided to eat 2 stuffed peppers I had gotten from Whole Foods for dinner. Unfortunately my grander plans of a night out on the town fell through - this could have been a cruel twist of fate. The closest match to my whole foods stuffed peppers was Stoufer's Frozen Stuffed ...
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Up until now all the posts on this blog have been about me and how I've been dealing with the disease. But really for us with diabetes that is only half the story. We all have an amazing support network and people who care about us that see us through our everyday struggles. At times I think our bs concerns may be more of a trial for them than f...
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Since Sunday, I've been battling a nightly low every day. On Sunday I headed over to Duane Reade (Manhattan's CVS ) to pick up some stuff for the week at about 8:50 pm. At DR I felt my usual warning signs - oddly my ankle which I had reconstructive surgery on as a junior in high school starts to tingle and my forehead itches (weird) - and though...
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After countless hours of research and loosing way too many minutes of sleep stressing about which pump to pick I finally came to a decision. I'm going with the Minimed Paradigm 522 pump, contrary to what I had earlier stated. After exhausting every possible shred of information I came to the conclusion that the 522 was the best pump for me. D...
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The day I've been waiting for has finally arrived - I received my Minimed Pump in the mail! The box arrived at 6 pm on Friday but since my company has the worst mail room in the history of offices, I didn't receive it until about noon Monday. I could barely contain my excitement when our mail guy approached me with this box: Never before has ...
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After a tough couple weeks my blood sugar finally leveled off yesterday. Instead of using the 12:1 ratio I had calculated with for the past month and 1/2 I'm now using a 15:1 ratio. My lowest blood sugar from yesterday and through the first half of today was 81 and that was after a great lift. Hopefully I'll be able to take inspiration from t...
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So diabetes I see you don't like to fight fair. Unlucky for you that I say give me your toughest and I'm going to come back even stronger. I thought I had this whole carb ratio thing figured out and then over the past two weeks it seems to have completely changed. I spoke about my lows last week but this week they have become even worse. Althoug...
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This weekend I'm supposed to go on a camping trip and I think it's safe to say that I'm absolutely freaked out by the idea of it. Each time I've gone away since my diagnosis I've known exactly what type of food I'd be eating and at what time - a hotel or friend's house really helps with this. However, when you're out in the woods planning meal...
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