Currently I keep the same basal schedule every day of the week:

12am - 8 am - 0.8 u/hr
8am - 11:30 am - 1.05 u/hr (going to increase to 1.15 u/hr in a sec)
11:30 am - 11 pm - 0.75 u/hr
11pm - 12am - 0.8 u/hr

I only change that if I get really really sick. It has to be flu-level sickness to justify a change. Seasonal changes actually require it too, sometimes. When it goes from hot --> cold or cold --> hot and my body seems to be catching on that this is A Thing and not just a one-off event my metabolism will switch gears.

[Edited on June 30, 2011 at 9:29 PM. Reason : 9 pages of pancreatic fail]

6/30/2011 9:29:37 PM

I am still having to tweak mine all the time atm. Breast feeding and working out keep me on a constant LOW and high imbalance. Sucks. My A1c was 6.5. I would like it to be like 6.0. I am never going to maintain my health and weight if I can't get this wacko train wreck in order.

My current (I just changed them)
12am-0.675
9am- 0.775
3pm- 0.725
8pm- 0.575

We shall see how long this lasts.

6/30/2011 9:40:22 PM

What's funny is our doctors will compliment us because our A1c's are not only under 8%, they're under 7%.

I understand 7% is a roughly agreed upon limit for MOST complications but I can't imagine my kidneys not getting utterly destroyed by the one-off high blood sugar events where you feel sick for a day.

6/30/2011 9:59:11 PM

I think I have a bad site. My sugar has been elevated for a while. I just don't want to change my site.

7/9/2011 7:13:41 PM

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-14029379

islet cell transplants ftw

7/10/2011 1:42:22 PM

Quote :

"I was so terrified that David would come home from school to find me unconscious that I would go out all day, knowing that if I collapsed in a public place, I would be taken to hospital."

I totally feel and understand this!

So I am assuming matching islet cells has to do with blood type? I am B+ if anyone wants to hook a person up?

7/10/2011 1:46:12 PM

free premie for first islet cell donor!

7/10/2011 1:46:56 PM

I'm either B+ or B- don't remember... what is this donorship you speak of?

7/10/2011 11:16:12 PM

haha...smath!

I am trying to get my friend, who has her own clothing line, to add some clothing/accessories that would be good for pump carrying diabetics. Such a small market but REALLY needed. I get stinking tired of having to wear my pump in my bra or catching the wires on everything that juts out enough. I have had my site ripped out a few times because of this and it def hurts!

7/10/2011 11:25:58 PM

oh hello again

7/12/2011 10:10:19 PM

I've never had a site ripped out because I use: http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/31lI9x2j0VL._SL500_AA300_.jpg

I also just keep my pump in my pocket and tuck the tubing into my underwear. I don't wear boxers very often to ensure that the tubing will be held in place tightly so it won't slip out. It's annoying as crap to have it catch on a door knob/stair handrail/anything at all.

I've also, surprisingly, had few lows and rather good blood sugars as of late. I may be changing this tonight by getting hammered, however I am happy with my performance as of late.

I also just threw about 75% of the food I had out of my house because it was spoiled and I realized it was as such. No fun in eating food that turned to... liquid... god I'm a horrible bachelor.

[Edited on July 14, 2011 at 12:28 AM. Reason : ALSO: *hugs* Don't feel bad, diabetes will be shit for me for a year, then be good for a year.]

7/14/2011 12:27:55 AM

I might try this out.

http://juvenation.org/p/juvenation_welcome.aspx

7/20/2011 3:25:54 PM

Aha, neat. I like that ignorance and inconsiderate behavior bit. I found it's very fun to just tell people how the disease works when they say or do something that a diabetic would consider irrational. Then, they don't do it any more!

Might join that at some point. Maybe some point in the future when I'm more a ray of sunshine.

7/23/2011 2:39:46 AM

http://7thspace.com/headlines/391706/recall_of_bayers_contour_and_contour_ts_glucose_test_strips.html

8/17/2011 3:05:20 PM

Doesn't affect my gear, but I hate recalls anyway.

Last time I got one I had already used all the infusion sets and noticed that I had blood sugar control issues for the past two weeks.

Little too late to do anything about it by that point, and it has always been that way. Both with Deltec and Animas.

8/17/2011 11:01:43 PM

9/6/2011 10:36:01 AM

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21019-diabetic-rats-cured-with-their-own-stem-cells.html

Quote :

"A cure for diabetes could be sitting in our brains. Neural stem cells, extracted from rats via the nose, have been turned into pancreatic cells that can manufacture insulin to treat diabetes. Beta cells in the pancreas produce insulin, which regulates glucose levels. People with diabetes either have type 1, in which native beta cells are destroyed by the immune system, or type 2, in which beta cells cannot produce enough insulin. To replace lost or malfunctioning beta cells, Tomoko Kuwabara of the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology in Tsukuba Science City, Japan, and colleagues turned to neural stem cells in the brain. Nasal extraction First, they extracted a tiny amount of tissue from the rats' olfactory bulb, the part of the brain which deals with smell, or from the hippocampus, involved in memory. Each area is accessible through the nose, both in rats and humans. Next, the team extracted neural stem cells from the tissue and exposed them to Wnt3a – a human protein that switches on insulin production – and to an antibody that blocks a natural inhibitor of insulin production. After multiplying the stem cells for two weeks, they placed them on thin sheets of collagen which act as a removable scaffold. This allowed the team to lay the sheets incorporating the cells on top of the rats' pancreas without harming the organ itself. Within a week, concentrations of insulin in the blood of both type 1 and type 2 rats that had received treatment matched those in non-diabetic rats. Elevated blood glucose concentrations also returned to normal. The cells successfully tackled diabetes for 19 weeks until researchers halted the treatment by removing the sheets of cells, after which the rats' diabetes returned. Natural change Crucially, the cells did not have to be genetically manipulated outside of the body. Many other labs around the world have tried altering stem cells from other parts of the body, including the gut, the liver and blood, to change them into beta cells. But these all require alterations or genetic manipulations which could pose safety concerns when transferring the treatment to humans. Because the cells in the current study come from the same animal in which they are transplanted, they also overcome hurdles of rejection or the need for immunosuppressive drugs, such is the case when people receive donor pancreatic cells. No manipulation The researchers believe that it would be safe to access neural stem cells in humans. "It would be possible to extract adult neural stem cells from the olfactory bulb surgically using an endoscope," they say, adding that other groups have already done such extractions, proving that they are practical. "The most important improvement offered by this study is the derivation of insulin-expressing cells from diabetes patients without the need for genetic manipulation," say Onur Basak and Hans Clevers of the Hubrecht Institute for Development Biology and Stem Cell Research in Utrecht, the Netherlands, in a commentary published alongside the work (EMBO Molecular Medicine, DOI: 10.1002/emmm.201100178). "It will be essential to validate these results in available human neuronal stem cell lines as well as patient-derived olfactory bulb neural stem cells," they add. "

10/7/2011 1:25:16 PM

Just a quick question for the other beetusosis sufferers. Any of you all have trouble adapting with seasonal changes? Like, it takes a couple weeks to stop having highs/lows/something once the weather makes a marked charge.

10/12/2011 12:36:23 AM

I have not seen that adapting factor within myself. I would like to hear more about what you are talking about, Mindstorm.

Here is something about teeth/gums and diabetes.
http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/10/the-411-on-gum-disease-diabetes.html

10/20/2011 12:16:21 PM

Quote :

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I LOVE THIS PICTURE

10/20/2011 12:26:38 PM

has anyone had bariatric surgery to correct diabetes? did it work?

10/20/2011 12:37:41 PM

Quote :

"I would like to hear more about what you are talking about, Mindstorm."

It gets cold outside, my blood sugars go nuts for a while. If it does some hot/cold shiz my blood sugars really go nuts because it's like my body can't figure out on what level to operate. It happens in the fall and in the spring.

There's a Type I at my office who apparently has his insulin pump set to one setting all day, maintains a 5.7% A1C, and has no issues with hyper or hypoglycemia and eats like a horse. God damn, I'm jealous.

10/29/2011 12:38:20 AM

So I'm back to following my an IR/diabetes diet (my endocrinologist basically has the same diet for both) and I'm having a hard time... Any tips on some good snacks, or maybe a certain diet that would fit well? I know punchy mentioned the zone diet at one time..

10/30/2011 11:24:04 PM

Quote :

"There's a Type I at my office who apparently has his insulin pump set to one setting all day, maintains a 5.7% A1C, and has no issues with hyper or hypoglycemia and eats like a horse. God damn, I'm jealous. "

How in the hell can you set your insulin pump to a certain A1c? That is amazing. I AM FUCKING JEALOUS!!! WOW!! Amazing!

I am glad I am not using the current CGM. This girl's blog post makes me not want to ever use this.
http://www.diabetesmine.com/2011/11/happier-without.html

11/2/2011 2:59:36 PM

He just uses a basal rate of like 1.1 U/hr 24 hours a day and somehow it works out in his favor.

11/2/2011 5:39:16 PM

he must have lows like a mother fucker with his basal that high all day. Mine isn't even set that high yet and I am pregnant.

11/2/2011 6:35:14 PM

I think he's just slightly more insulin resistant than me. I use about that much at night and in the mornings (I don't eat breakfast so I get a morning rise), but the rest of the day i use 1/2-2/3 that. He needs more insulin to assimilate the same amount of carbs I consume as well. He tells me he doesn't have low blood sugars at all, but maybe he just has really well-behaved adrenal glands.

11/2/2011 10:42:19 PM

So I was having a dream that I was having a low and I was eating ALL THE THINGS!!! for sure and I woke up with a low. My brain and body connection amazes me. I am grateful that I wake up.

11/12/2011 4:43:09 PM

if there is anyone out there tonight (or whenever, tonight would be awesome though) that is taking or has taken metformin I have a question for you!

I've been taking the extended release 750mg tabs for 2 weeks now, first week once a day and second week upped it to twice a day. My nausea is finally settling down, and I don't have a lot of problems if I keep something on my stomach, nibbling on something all day some days, but I usually have to eat or have a glass of milk at least once every 3 hours. My real problem is at night when I'm sleeping. I usually go to bed between 10 and 11 and wake up at about 3am with terrible heartburn/reflux so bad that I usually end up throwing up. Does anyone have any tips to help this? Usually I just puke, brush my teeth, and chew up a couple tums, but I'd like to keep it from happening. Thanks!

11/13/2011 10:35:28 PM

just take it in the morning? my script is for 2 extended release in the morning and that's it.

11/14/2011 6:41:22 AM

I'll talk to my doctor about that. She specifically told me when she wanted me to take it, but I dont know why.

11/14/2011 7:05:23 AM

i have a lower dosage than you, especially factoring in body size... (I'm assuming i'm larger than you!)... I take 2 500mg pills once per day.

11/14/2011 8:20:05 AM

I had to go back on metformin today 1000mg ER once a day.. Boo.

11/14/2011 1:30:09 PM

booooo


well, last night I made it through the night without vomiting. if it happens again I'll call my doc about taking it all in the am

11/14/2011 1:43:07 PM

preggers!

11/14/2011 1:44:55 PM

My grandmother was recently diagnosed with diabetes. I still want to send her Christmas cookies but don't want to kill her lol. Anyone have recipes for low glycemic impact and/or diabetic friendly cookies?

11/21/2011 12:15:19 PM

there are a lot of good recipes out there... search for low carb peanut butter cookies.

11/21/2011 12:36:10 PM

Yeah but I'd rather use one that people on here have already tried and say doesn't taste like ass

11/21/2011 12:36:59 PM

try paleo cookies or muffins as a substitute. SHe can eat the whole damn plate of whatever you make and it won't effect her sugar.

11/21/2011 1:01:23 PM

I just wanted to gripe a minute. Why do pharmacies and other stores put sugar free Russell Stover and other sugar free candies by the diabetic products?

Here is the reality. There are just as many carbs in those snacks as the non sugar free ones and that has to be extra confusing for type 2 diabetics who are new to the whole carb counting and it not being sugar that you look for. All those candies are going to help with is diarrhea.

I get tired of seeing that crap so I tried to talk to the pharmacy tech about it and she gave me some flowery talk about what sugar compared to carbs compared to sugar alcohols. I just want to help my fellow type 2 diabetics out that don't always have the knowledge of a type 1 and I also want to help the ones with weight loss as a goal. Those kind of carbs add the pounds for sure.

12/9/2011 7:14:15 PM

are sugar alcohols not good for diabetics?

12/11/2011 5:36:13 PM

i've heard that sugar substitutes like splenda can still trigger an insulin response, is that true? Is the response significant enough that you shouldn't use them?

12/11/2011 6:18:02 PM

well, sugar alcohols are known to give you diarrhea and that is not good for a diabetic. I def had the squirts after eating that stuff often.

^I don't know much about that. I am interested to know even though I don't use sugar substitutes like that. I try to use honey, agave nectar, and raw sugar. I can't go without the sweet but I CAN'T stand the after taste and fake taste of the substitutes.

12/11/2011 6:24:44 PM

I know a guy that walks around with insulin strapped to his side.

12/11/2011 6:27:02 PM

there are a lot of people who walk around with insulin strapped to their side

check out this waffle recipe... http://www.fatsecret.com/recipes/belgian-waffles/Default.aspx?dietid=34803 looks intriguing.

12/11/2011 7:05:45 PM

thanks smath!! I am gonna try that soon! Almost sounds paleo.

I was trying to find a picture that shows my insulin site because I always have insulin strapped to me. Apparently, I don't take many showing that.



I tried to do a horrible photo shop with crappy text and an non straight arrow to point out my insulin site but I can't get it to work tonight for some reason. There are a few of us that have insulin strapped to us at all times (except for swimming, bathing, and sex).

12/11/2011 7:49:52 PM

You're a finger sticking up away from being a charlies angel.

12/11/2011 7:51:46 PM

Hey, some of us can swim with our pumps on.

Last time I swam in the ocean (YEARS ago) I kept my pump plugged in. I don't highly recommend it but if your pump is waterproof...

Also, there's sugar-death fudge in the kitchen and I think I'm going to eat some in a bit.

12/13/2011 7:32:26 PM

My recent A1c was 5.9%!

LET'S GO EAT A KING SIZE SNICKERS TO CELEBRATE....jk.

1/3/2012 3:01:42 PM

I don't know what my last A1C was. It's going on a year now I think. I got my blood drawn and forgot to follow up with the doc (who also didn't follow up with me when my blood work came in, so we both suck).

Once I buy this house (CURRENT stress item) I'm gonna get two appointments set up. One to get my blood drawn again, another to review the findings from that and to get a referral to a non-crap endocrinologist around here.

1/10/2012 10:41:29 PM