Living with Diabetes and Lapband

Yep, I'm still working out, using iShape. I've lost 10 1/2 pounds since have started. I've got my insulin use down to under 65 units when I am not fighting highs

I feel better. I actually went shopping to several places yesterday. in a row. Actually getting my blood sugar down to a reasonable amount did more good than anything.

I really recommend iShape. They give you strength exercises, cardio suggestions, and they let you log everything. I'm careful not to go in a calorie deficient more than 500 calories average. That means I am really eating a lot, but I am keeping track of it.

Anyway, can you tell I'm thrilled!

But I do want to read this book--about the great flu pandemic.

My mother's family was hit hard by it -- My grandfather lost both of his parents and most of his family, and so did my grandmother.

Oddly my father's family didn't seem to be affected.

It's something that affected her family deeply and something they talked about when I was young. Primarly because I had "great grandparents" who really weren't. They were very young to be great grandparents, so the situation was explained in public a lot. They couldn't have children, were related to my grandfather -- I think my great grandfather was a younger brother of his father.

’The Great Influenza’ and ’Microbial Threats to Health’: Virus Alert

Yahoo! News - Surprising Warning Signs Could Signal Diabetes

I'm not sure what happened, but watching TRENDS, all day, not just the individual numbers would have alerted me to what was going on.

Here's what happened, after several days of feeling bad, I realized that I had gotten the 3rd reading in a row of over 130 fasting in the morning. I called my pump trainer freaked out.

Unfortunately I didn't realize it wasn't the 3rd reading in a row, it was more like a two week trend! I normally have fasting blood sugars in the 100-110 range, so having 7 days at over 130 is an issue.

Then I started looking harder, and the trend was worse than I thought. No one I was feeling bad, my blood sugars were running 130-190 all day. To feel good, I need to have a range of 100-140. Occasional forays into 160-170 from miscalculations aren't bad, but much more than that, and I start feeling like doggy doodoo.

Well, I finally got it down to a normal reading last night -- actually went a bit too far, and had to get up and treat a 77 reading. I grabbed some gummy bears and a diet coke and that did the trick, as I was 99 at 8:00 am.

The good news, is I am seeing an endo on Monday.

Pump trainer is guessing some type of illness, but I really don't feel much worse than usual. Some muscle soreness from weight lifting, some stuffiness from pollen, and some heel pain from the heel spurs -- oh and some carple tunnel pain.

But I seem to be more sensitive to pain when the blood sugar is too high. Heck my whole life sucks then.

I keep seeing the news items on the FDA today, working on obesity, and I keep wondering how much energy is being taken away from approving new products.

Hopefully they are completely different departments and issues, but I can't help but wonder, if it pushing back the approval of the continue glucose monitor.

We need this now. It's the next step to a closed loop system, but darn it, maybe it would have solved last week. Don't worry, I'll do a seperate post.

Instead of studying why people get fat, someone is studying why people stay skinny.

Which reminds me, nothing is harder than living with a man who is 6" tall, probably weighs 165 pounds since he has been recovering from a broken hip, and can wear every stitch of clothing he has ever purchased. In fact, he has two suits, both of which are over 20 years old.

And they look nice, since he wears them to weddings, funerals, and whenever someone thinks his picture ought to be in the annual report.

With a grant to study thin people, an endocrinologist seeks an answer to why most Americans are overweight.

Health Beat :: Made in Puerto Rico, shipped to Germany, sold in Canada to U.S. citizens

Yep, got here today, and just think I get to do this all over again NEXT year.

Implantable, Continuous Sensor Reduced Glucose Fluctuations in Type 1 Diabetes

Minimed almost has one out that doesn't give feedback, only alarms.

Therasense is a step behind, with one that you change the sensor every three days -- FYI, I like that idea better.

If doctors think testing 4 times a day is good, can you imagine what we can get with continous feedback? Though remember, that the readings will always be 2 hours behind the event in most cases -- some liquid sugars will vary.

NEW PRODUCT 1969
Ames Introduces New Glucose Meter