Success requires a motivated patient and a qualified doctor. Too often people with T2 do not realize what they are missing in terms of medical attention and treatment.

Unfortunately, the minimal, or absent, BG testing by people with T2 is often caused by their doctors! I have several friends with T2 who tell me their docs instruct them to test only once a day, or every other day, or even not at all! Two of my friends do not even have a meter because their "doctor tests" them. When I try to offer my insight they get hostile: "You do not know better than my doctor!" I haven't been offering much insight lately.

Barbara

I can't go past 2+ days and I'm in my 60s. If I insert in the morning, by the 3rd afternoon, my BG just want to go up.


I find this is true with Silhouettes too (when not using inserter). I do the same, move it a bit until it doesn't hurt. And I've noticed that when I persist in a painful spot, it usually bleeds. Do we have more nerves over blood vessels?

Barbara

I have no problem inserting the Quickset in my upper butt, behind my back. Also no problem disconnecting and reconnecting. (Unfortunately, for me, after about a year of using that area, and loving it, I'm having unexplainable absorption problems on the day of insert.)

It will be really interesting to see if that happens with your next sensor as well.

I wonder if your transmitter is just a "fluke" or if they really have changed. My transmitter is 2 1/2 years old. If I knew a new one would work like yours, i'd get one right away.
Barbara

You don't say but I assume that you have been doing a 'start new sensor' every 3 days, right?
Barbara

My pump is always visible when I go through airport screening. Several times the TSA person has noticed it or commented on it but once they realized what it was it was not an issue. I have not had any pat-downs.

Do you know if the same can be done with Windows 7/64 bit?

Right now I can see exactly what your picture shows on my smoke pump. I thought the clear shows more.

I've been pumping a smoke MM 522 for 2 1/2 years. In April I had a purple loaner pump for several weeks during which we went on vacation. I loved it and am planning on that being my next color.

Yes! I had a BG of 42 today, and a large area of my tongue felt numb and funny. I have felt this a few times before as well. But it hasn't extended to the mouth, throat, lips, etc.

I thought that it was only me because I have another weird oral thing: When I have had "enough" to drink (alcohol) -- not drunk by any means, could be only 1 or 2 glasses of wine -- I feel a strange sensation (tightness, slight numbness) in my teeth and jaws (not tongue). I've asked lots of people if they've ever heard of this but no one ever has. So when I recently started noticing the numb tongue with a very low BG I assumed this was just another example of my strangeness in that neighborhood.

Barbara

Hello and Welcome! Your age of Type 1 diagnosis is unusual but not unique -- I was 58 when I was diagnosed as Type 1. I consider myself very lucky that the endocrinologist looked at my small size, heard about how active I was and said, "Could you be Type 1????" The c-peptide test confirmed it. I am surprised to hear that you have a Revel. I didn't think Medicare would pay for a Revel yet. If they are, that's great!

As the others have said, the Revel should not be much of a change from the OmniPod. The concepts are the same. Good luck and you'll find a crowd of supportive friends here.

Barbara

I inserted a QS today, first in many weeks. I'll have to take a closer look when I pull it.

I used to have at least as many basal rates as you but when I set up my loaner pump for our trip to Galapagos in April I simplified and ended up keeping the simple version. They seem to work as well as before. I'm due to do some basal testing but I can't make myself get to it. Here are my settings:

12:00am .4
4:00am .5
8:00am .45

Total: 10.8

I guess when we're not skipping meals, our bolus ratios make up for flaws in our basal rates and vice versa. I SHOULD do the basal testing!

Barbara

I am 5'1" tall and only use the 43" tubing for that exact reason. I love putting my pump on the bath mat in the bathroom instead of having it fly off the counter. It's also easier when it's lying next to me in bed.
Barbara

As I posted in another thread, earlier this week I had 3 days of much higher than normal, but not as high as yours, with no obvious cause. I finally started a new vial of insulin, after less than 3 weeks, I think it was (like you, I usually can use a vial until it's empty, more than 30 days), AND changed my site twice. Not sure which was the cause -- insulin or site -- or both. Glad it's finally coming down.
Barbara

Thank you for your good wishes. I went to my dermatologist today and he doesn't think this is going to be terrible. It's still hard red hot and itchy, and BIG but he gave me a soak for 2-3x per day and a strong cortisone ointment for 2x per day and said it should be resolved in a week or so. He wanted to also give me cortisone pills to take but I refused -- I don't need to deal with high BGs.

Definitely, see a doctor! It sure sounds like diabetes. If it is, the sooner you see a doctor the better. If it's something else, the sooner you see a doctor the better.

And be sure to let us know what happens.

Barbara

Thanks Ted and Tiffany. I agree with everything you said. (In my case though, I'm way past all the MS's.) I've been totally back on track with BGs ever since I inserted the second Sil. However, I've just come back from a non-diabetes ER visit. Near the end of yesterday's hike, I had some mean insect I did not see give me a painful bite on the back of my upper arm. By this afternoon, it had created a 2"x1.5" flat raised hot red oval area that itched like crazy. I got up several times during the night to ice it, and continued that today. I didn't realize how big it was getting until my husband looked at it and said I'd better get a medical person to look at it. I went online and freaked out looking at what some spider bites can become. Don't know if it was a spider, just that it was big and black. The ER couldn't say if it was a spiker bite or what, just that the treatment would be the same whatever it is -- ice, Benedryl and hydrocortisone cream. It's helping already. If it is a BAD spider, it will get ugly, take 3 months or so, and might need unappealing surgical procedures. I'm sure hoping that's not the case. I would have suspected that this bite could have caused high BGs, but most of the time since the bite I've been going low. Go figure!

I’ve been running high, for me, the last few days and really struggling to fix the situation. On Saturday, I inserted a Sure-T in my butt, a site area that has given me problems with absorption before. But after many months off, I’ve been trying again. Thinking the site was the problem, Monday morning, I inserted a Silhouette in my abdomen, best set-site combination for me. I was overly high after lunch, then fine all day and evening. But by bedtime I had gone up, corrected, continued high during the night, corrected again, and woke Tuesday morning at 125 instead of my usual 60s – 80s. Then I soared up to 195 after breakfast, but it was hiking day…

My usual hiking procedure is to under-bolus for breakfast, reduce basal below 50% for 2 hours before hiking and to zero while hiking – and still I often drop into the 40s. But yesterday, taking a full bolus for breakfast and not reducing the basal at all, I hiked 6 miles and never dropped below 135. Something was definitely wrong!

When I got home, I opened a new vial of Novolog (old one only 17 days old), and changed the reservoir and tubing (both 5 days old). Had only some sliced turkey, lettuce and tomato for lunch – no carbs. Corrected 2-3 times during the afternoon and still hovered at 150.

Finally, gave a correction from the new vial by injection. Yea!! Dropped right down! So my day-old Sil in the ab, my best location of all time, was bad??? I inserted a new Sil, also in my abdomen. Success!!! I actually went low last night (2 glucose tabs), woke at 72, went low again after breakfast.

So what was it? Were both the Sure-T and 1st Sil sites bad? Was the insulin also weak? Or all of the above?

It’s times like these that I HATE my pump!

Barbara

Happy Birthday, Tiffany! You have given us all a wonderful gift with this forum!

Barbara

Thanks. I will try that.

I got a new computer over the weekend, with Windows 7 operating system. Since then, I have to sign on every single time I come to IPF. Any idea what the problem is?

Thanks,
Barbara

I always run water on the "victim" finger and wipe dry. I carry a bottle of water in my car for "finger-dipping" if I need to test along the way.