Living with Diabetes and Lapband

I haven't been sleeping well -- some out and out heart burn attacks, but mostly just uncomfortable and waking up a lot.

Last night, I slept all night, without waking up until the alarm clock went off.  Very unusual.

Horrible day yesterday too.  Forgot my breakfast insulin dose which ruins my whole day as it always takes longer for my blood sugar to go down when it is messed up in the morning.  Very weird, but my metabolism is very sluggish until about 11:00 am or later.

I am anxiously awaiting Thursday fitness4diabetes email as they are going to crank the fitness up a notch.

Good news, both the physical coach and the nuitrion coach contacted me spontaneiously this week (or at least on their schedule).

I think I've solved the "going low in the evening" problem.  I just don't do any insulin or Symlin with my evening meal.

I do believe my activity level is higher when I'm doing dog agility -- especially when I was training Macy this week.

I keep seeing the same two pounds disappear and reappear -- a lot of that is edema. 

My insulin usage has dropped dramatically -- in fact I'm going to be able to go back to changing my set ever two days.

So is it worth it?  Yep!

First -- SEE you don't need Embroyic Stem Cells.

Second -- of course, it probably won't help me or most Type 2's.  But it will be really great if it will eliminate Type 1s! 

Thirteen young diabetics in Brazil have ditched their insulin shots and need no other medication thanks to a risky, but promising treatment with their own stem cells — apparently the first time such a feat has been accomplished.

Source: Stem cell experiment lets diabetics forgo insulin - Diabetes - MSNBC.com

This is interesting... and much more hopeful than the Brazilian news. 

Connor Ahles, 11, is the billion-dollar boy – the first to test a revolutionary Victorian discovery to prevent Type 1 diabetes. He will take the insulin vaccine through a nasal spray once a week for a year. If successful, the vaccine could save more than $1 billion in diabetes-related health care costs.

Source: Diabetes In Control - First Person Gets New Vaccine Against Diabetes

First, the physical coach has been absolutely fabulous.  She's gotten me to up my activity level -- my lowest number of steps so far has been 9013 and that was Monday when I spent most of the day asleep -- either being scoped or getting the drugs out of my system.

The nutrition coach hasn't been personalizing things, and is a bit slow to respond but when she does, she has good information.  Same thing goes with the wellness coach.

All in all, I'm happy with the program.

However, I'm getting frustrated with myself.  I keep going low when I exercise.  I've figured out workouts -- no insulin and no symlin with the evening meal, and I come out okay at the end of the evening.

But all of the sudden, I'm having to do the same thing in agility class!  Of course, I wasn't prepared for that, so I've had to eat extra.  And I'm having to eat it late -- which means I'm waking up with heartburn, when I'm trying really hard not to.

Don't worry I'll get over it.

Nope, absolutely not.  Although Jobs might need a pump, didn't he go through pancreatic cancer?  I'm not sure what the implications of that is.

What do you all think?  Would you, could you, sign your name to an appeal like this to the Big Man of Consumer Design-ism?

Source: Diabetes Mine

First, Amy, shame on you -- the picture you have on your post is the OLD Animas pump.  It wasn't bad BUT I have the new pump -- the 1250 and the 12xx series is quite cool.  The 2020 pump is even cooler and it should be arriving soon.  It even has a color screen.

I've never been a huge fan of Apple products.  I own two mini Macs, I've taught Webmastering on Macs, and I've had to support Apples in the classroom for years, as a teacher tech.

They are extremely difficult to support from the technical end.  I've always found PCs easier to program -- and yes, I've tried it.  I will give you that Macs to digital cameras better than PCs.

I will give you that the Minimed and the Cozmo is clugy, but I love my Animas pumps!

Blood sugars have gone extremely well.  I was hoping my blood sugar would be a bit high this morning -- and it was -- 125.  I did turn my pump off for an hour about two hours before the procedure was scheduled per the doctor's request.

When I went into the procedure my blood sugar was 135.  When I left the day surgery center and went to eat, my blood sugar was at 120.

Honestly I don't think you could ask for anything better -- and my brunch dosing even work well, I was at 119 at 4:00.

I'm quite proud of myself!

This is good news -- I am definately going to wait on getting one know until it may be covered. 

Medical device maker DexCom Inc. said Monday it is one step closer to gaining reimbursement for its continuous glucose monitoring devices.

Source: DexCom Gets Positive Medicare Response: Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

Won't know the full results for several days but the sonogram found one very large gall stone. It could be causing the GERD or contributing to it.

There were polyps in the esophages and I think lesions which were removed and sent for biopsy. I'll know in 5-10 days.

My protonix is on the way.

I actually haven't been focusing on losing weight, because it's been really hard for me since I've been diagnosed with diabetes.  It was hard enough before with my sleeping issues -- though if I do sleep well, I did lose weight before diabetes.

Well, since I've started with Fitness4Diabetics, I've lost two pounds.  I think.  Between the edema issues and diabetes, I won't count them entirely gone until they stay off the scales for at least a week, but the two pounds have been gone for two days so far.

More progress.  Since I started their second week workout last Thursday, I've been able to get in more than 10,000 steps! 

The workouts are going well too!

My fitness coach has been super responsive.  I was having trouble with the streching exercises, because they were not written in English, so she sat down this weekend and rewrote the ones I was having trouble with.  That's helped tremedously.