Just got back from the doctor's today and I'm happy to say that I am the proud owner of a healthy A1C of 6.9. The diabetic is now doing fine and resting comfortably.
At first, I was kinda upset. My blood sugar is supposed to be at 6.5 to be considered "healthy". Normal people have lower blood sugar. If 7 is a little high, isn't 6.9 skimming the surface? Am I getting a B+ for blood sugar when I should be getting an A?
But forget all that. I was diagnosed 7 months ago. I had an A1C of 14. I'm still learning how my diabetic little body ticks.
Anyways, it's Friday so that means a new Dexcom sensor which means a new pep talk. I've been getting progressively less stressed putting it in. This time, I said "Let's do this!" before I put the sensor in. I think it really helped.
Happy 2017!
Let's do this!
Showing posts with label Dexcom. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Dexcom. Show all posts
Friday, January 6, 2017
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Dexcom Problems
Remember the insulin disaster I told you about yesterday?
Yeah, settle down, I got another story.
It was the Friday before finals week. My friend Pauline, and I were having a Christmas party in our dorm. It was just a small party: we exchanged gifts with a few friends, built gingerbread houses, played card games, and watched The Grinch.
In the middle of all of this, I was fighting with my Dexcom.
The Dexcom transmitter battery was dead. It had been three months since I had gotten the Dexcom, so this was normal. It just meant getting my new transmitter out and putting that in instead. I read the directions and tried to get the new one to work, but it just wasn't happening. I thought that I must have been doing something wrong. I was a newbie at this...
So, I decide that for the Christmas party, I wasn't going to worry about this. I was going to take care of it in the morning. Next morning, I call the Dexcom office. The guy at the tech phone walked me through everything. Nothing seemed to work and to top it all off, my receiver wasn't working either.
I had already used one sensor the night before and I had taken it out because things didn't seem to be working. The tech guy suggested I put a new sensor in and try again.
Still nothing.
What had I done?
It turns out there was a batch of Dexcom transmitters that just weren't hooking up to Bluetooth. The man from Dexcom apologized to me, but I was just relieved that it wasn't my fault.
So I had stabbed myself twice just to find out that it was a manufacturing problem and that I would be without my Dexcom for all of finals week.
No problem.
Right?
Yeah, settle down, I got another story.
It was the Friday before finals week. My friend Pauline, and I were having a Christmas party in our dorm. It was just a small party: we exchanged gifts with a few friends, built gingerbread houses, played card games, and watched The Grinch.
In the middle of all of this, I was fighting with my Dexcom.
The Dexcom transmitter battery was dead. It had been three months since I had gotten the Dexcom, so this was normal. It just meant getting my new transmitter out and putting that in instead. I read the directions and tried to get the new one to work, but it just wasn't happening. I thought that I must have been doing something wrong. I was a newbie at this...
So, I decide that for the Christmas party, I wasn't going to worry about this. I was going to take care of it in the morning. Next morning, I call the Dexcom office. The guy at the tech phone walked me through everything. Nothing seemed to work and to top it all off, my receiver wasn't working either.
I had already used one sensor the night before and I had taken it out because things didn't seem to be working. The tech guy suggested I put a new sensor in and try again.
Still nothing.
What had I done?
It turns out there was a batch of Dexcom transmitters that just weren't hooking up to Bluetooth. The man from Dexcom apologized to me, but I was just relieved that it wasn't my fault.
So I had stabbed myself twice just to find out that it was a manufacturing problem and that I would be without my Dexcom for all of finals week.
No problem.
Right?
Monday, October 10, 2016
Love/Hate Relationship with my Dexcom
Here's the bare bones of the matter:
Knowing your blood glucose level is a blessing and a curse.
You can say, "Oh, my blood sugar is low and going down, I guess I'll have that extra cookie" or "It's a little high, I should drink some water".
On the other hand, low blood sugar during class is bad enough. It's worse when your Dexcom is beeping at you while the professor is talking. It's like "Shhhh, I just ate a glucose tab, you'll be up in a minute".
And of course, putting the Dexcom in is a pain. It doesn't hurt as much as a flu shot, but it still hurts.
So I try to get my sensor to last longer than a week so I don't have to put it back in.
It doesn't appreciate that.
So, do I recommend a CGM for first time T1Ders?
Absolutely. You can sleep the whole night through without any worries about waking up at 3 to test.
It's the least you've earned after waking up to pee in the middle of the night for months!
Knowing your blood glucose level is a blessing and a curse.
You can say, "Oh, my blood sugar is low and going down, I guess I'll have that extra cookie" or "It's a little high, I should drink some water".
On the other hand, low blood sugar during class is bad enough. It's worse when your Dexcom is beeping at you while the professor is talking. It's like "Shhhh, I just ate a glucose tab, you'll be up in a minute".
And of course, putting the Dexcom in is a pain. It doesn't hurt as much as a flu shot, but it still hurts.
So I try to get my sensor to last longer than a week so I don't have to put it back in.
It doesn't appreciate that.
So, do I recommend a CGM for first time T1Ders?
Absolutely. You can sleep the whole night through without any worries about waking up at 3 to test.
It's the least you've earned after waking up to pee in the middle of the night for months!
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