Little did I know that I need to be a super sleuth in managing my blood sugar. Symptom: After changing my set last Saturday my BG went way up and stayed there; however, a couple of readings were 100 and 61, so what’s going on here? Analysis/Diagnosis: I must be getting insulin as evidenced by [...]
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Insulin is a hormone that enables our cells to absorb glucose from our blood stream. Without sufficient insulin, our blood glucose levels increase and of course that’s not a good thing for us diabetics. If you do not have diabetes, your pancreas produces all the insulin you need. I started on oral meds (Diabenese) in [...]
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Like many of you I spent the last few years working on developing a process for managing my diabetes. I’ve learned many things about managing blood sugar and one of the most important lessons was the recognition that our process is trial and error. There is no cookbook approach to diabetes management although many of [...]
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Why is it that we take wonderful things for granted? I knew how important my insulin pump was to me, but now I have far more appreciation. Last Saturday, I had an MRI to evaluate a dizzy spell I had the week before while skiing in Colorado. The technician was hurrying to go home at [...]
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Joyful Diabetic? OK so we’ve got this disease that isn’t going away. In the best case, we poke our fingers several times a day and we pop pills or give ourselves regular injections. In the worse case, we go blind or lose a limb. So what’s to be joyful about? Lots. I’ve had type 2 [...]
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