Hello folks
Things have just been busy this last week or so. I had the CGMS taken out this morning and it actually recorded an entire weeks worth of data! With my luck, I’m surprised that it was still working when I walked out the door last week, lol.
I did end up with an infection at the site, so I get to be on antibiotics for a couple of weeks. I think I’ve been dragging a slight sinus infection around the last week or so, maybe get two bugs with one drug
I have a very consistent pattern from day to day (the folks at the office were quite impressed!). Going to be dropping my overnight rate, which I really need to do. Sunday morning, I literally came to, laid in bed for a good while and when I was finally rational enough to test my sugar, it was 43, up from god knows what. I’m not sure how low that CGMS reads glucose levels, but from the charted data, I bottomed it out several times! Living alone, those types of lows (esp with hypoglycemic unawareness) scare the crap outta me. I worried I’ll get out of bed and manage to fall down the stairs, or worse…
My basic pattern is this
wake up low
eat, bolus
go hi 2hr PP
go low 4hr PP
eat lunch, bolus
go hi 2hr PP
go low 4hr PP
eat diner, bolus
stay high all evening until I wake up low the next morning
rinse/repeat
Right now, I’m wondering how much of my 2hr PP highs are from bouncing high from the lows at about meal time. Dropping basal rates would help that more, we think, than adjusting bolus amounts
On another topic (hmm how did I manage to resist the Monty Python “now for something” reference?), I have heard back from two of the eleven letters I wrote (see previous blog), both of whom could not help me. The last contact was from the Kansas Foundation for Medical Care. They deal with medicare/medicaid, which I am not on, but I contacted them because lots of diabetics are. A nice lady gave me a call and said, that while the couldn’t help me directly, they would keep the letter for reference and told me I had taken exactly the right approach. Getting the letter and response put in my jacket was the correct way to handle it because once that entry is in my record, it has to stay there. It makes me want to review all my records every once in a while.
Thanks for stopping by
Scott
Today’s snarky comment: Even if you are paranoid, they can still be out to get you!
