Met with my pod educator tonight to go over how I’m doing. My numbers have improved dramatically, and it looks like I’m evening out. She went through some more advanced things, like programming an extended bolus and temp basal, which eluded me (apparently some folks find that doing a 30%/70% bolus split for pizza does […]
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5:34 am: 96 12:12 pm: 95 3:15 pm: 155 (still working on that post-lunch correction) 6:51 pm: 95 No fucking shit. The bitch is back, yo.
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Is this week three? The beginning of week 3, in any case. Things have largely settled down and evened out. I’m still trying to figure out the boluses for meals. I used to calculate these entirely differently; the onboard calculator they have seems to usually work so long as you have an accurate carb count.
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Wow, that was fast. Today, I learned that a cup of fat-free half and half is 143 calories, whereas a cup of peanut butter is 520 calories. Which means eating half a bowl of sugar free, fat free pudding is about 143 calories, whereas eating half a batch of flourless peanut butter cookies is only
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The Good: 1) I can keep my blood sugar more constant, by testing and correcting easily every… two to three hours. 2) No more shots. No more 5:30 am Lantus shot on weekends, in particular. 3) There is a handy bolus calculator that tells you how much insulin you’ve injected within the last three hours
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Still feeling too anti-social and tired to get out and about tonight. Hoping to at least go see a movie tomorrow. Now I am faced with the fact that I do not want to cook but do not want to go out and should not be spending money on carry out food. Pancakes and video
Came home, changed out to a new omnipod (I keep wanting to say ipod heh heh heh), cried for awhile. Tested at 35. Ate some graham crackers and cried some more. I hate being broken. I hate it more than anything in the whole world. I hate being dead already, just limping along with the
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You know, just seeing how much insulin I have to take just to stay under 300 because the pump’s fucked and basal’s not working, I have to say that I’m reducing my, “I could live for at least 3 days without insulin after the apocalypse!” to “I’d be lucky to make it 24 fucking hours.”
Had my first pod failure this morning when I went to switch out my omnipod. I’d read about this in the omnipod forums – apparently 1 in 7 actually fail out of the box. The good news is that this is supposed to mostly happen immediately, as soon as you put it on. I kept