If you can afford to put it on a credit card, and get the rate from our insurance company, it is a nice tax deduction.... I'd ask whoever prepares your tax returns.
yes, i was on cgms for a year and a half and found that extremely revealing and helpful. There are a real bunch of bum ideas and misinformation out there to lead one astray.
Today i am off that having learned a ton about my body and what the glucose/digestion system is doing thru thick and thin along with intestinal pests and system upset and screwy behavior as intestine and system change and adjust digestive enzymes in response to different food mixes being digested.
Best wishes and good luck!
I know exactly what foods to avoid and will still try to beat them. processed food with exact carb counts seem to work well, but then the word processed is bad. My answer is to not move and not eat.
I've actually wondered before if my blood sugar would be flat even if I didn't eat or move. I don't think it would even then!
Jen, I recall somewhere in some text that for a mid-BMI woman (which has probably changed now that people are bigger - anyway) mere existence requires 600 calories a day to do things like have a pulse, maintain body temperature and the like. So...those of us with type 1 would probably still have changing bg's!
Yep, I think we would still have out of range results and have to adjust insulin even if we didn't eat or move!
I have really severe neuropathy (even though my A1Cs have been below 5.6 for more than 7 years). I was in a wheelchair for a while. I can sorta shuffle around these days, but it's not the kind of walking you do for exercise, and my feet have suffered from every diabetic complication that exists, so I don't ask a lot of them. I did water aerobics and stationary bike at the gym 3 days a week last year. That's when I gained weight on 1200 calories a day. Not muscle, flab. I don't think 800 calories a day is a good thing, either. I found out at the doctor's office this week that I lost 19 pounds in 45 days. My A1C went from 5.6 to 5.1. So yes, I can "control" my T2 with diet, in a fashion, but I couldn't recommend it to anyone. I am most frustrated with the lack of medical knowledge, but also because the doctors don't listen, nor do they seem to believe me when they do listen.
I have feet issues, too (not caused by diabetes, caused by gait issues and arthritis), so walking is not my preferred means of exercise, either. I'm also visually impaired so can't go biking (unless I could find a tandem bike and a pilot) and can't participate in most team sports. My favourite form of exercise is swimming. At the moment I'm exercising by doing 30 minutes on a recumbent bike because I don't have time to swim, but I can't wait to get back to swimming this summer.
I did that in the beginning and I still had spikes/lows at 30g, I stopped doing it because it was way too much work and there is enough to obsess about with D- if it made no difference there was no point to the stress of it all for me. My blood sugar jumps around even with no food on board so it is the basal and other issues obviously that combine with food/fast acting to make things even more complicated.