If you follow The Life of a Diabetic on Twitter, then this post is not going to sound like much of a surprise to most of you. My blood sugars have been crazy over the past 2 months, even 3. I haven’t seen my endocrinologist since October, which I was seeing her every month for [...]
Every time I go to a restaurant, I tend to get a little mad. There may be a few reasons why, but primarily it is because I may not be in the mood to drink water, diet Coke / Pepsi or un-sweetened iced tea. But, guess what, those are the only options. With so many [...]
Being diabetic, we all know that we need to eat healthy and exercise. Well why is it so difficult to actually follow through on this? I have said plenty of times that this is the time that I am going to cut back on my bad eating habits and increase the good eating habits. I [...]
Not having insurance for some time really sucks. Sorry to be so blunt about it, but it does. For those of you in that boat, you know what I mean. I was insured the entire time I was diabetic, so I had no clue how it would actually feel. I could only imagine, but now [...]
This weekend was not so good for the blood sugars or my diet. My levels were running up close towards the mid 200′s on average all weekend. Last night after dinner my blood sugar was over 400 for about 3-4 hours be fore it finally came down in the middle of the night. When it [...]
Today I have decided to wear my sensor for the first time in almost two months. I had it charging all night long because it wasn’t even connected to the charger during that 2 months. I am not even sure if the sensors are still good because I know that they have short expiration date. [...]
Friday brought me another doctors visit. Let’s go through the checklist for the visit.
Insurance card, ID, meter, pump, clean socks, clean feet, food log, reasons for why I didn’t wear my cgm all month long.
Ok I have everything I need so now I can go to the visit, let’s check my sugar one more tome [...]