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Comment on Freestyle Libre – A Nurse’s Review by Jewels

Jewels — Tue, 11 Dec 2018 03:11:37 +0000

Justin – happy to chat if you share your email and or DM me on Twitter with your number. Best, J

Comment on Freestyle Libre – A Nurse’s Review by Justin Bolton

Justin Bolton — Mon, 10 Dec 2018 00:43:06 +0000

Hi my name is justin and am 40 years old
So I myself have had type 1 for 33 years, I appreciate your insight and review of these products.
I have wanted to pull the trigger on the 670 g system, I am currently on the enlght system.
I am a trail runner and participate in alot of Spartan races. I am just curious to the constructability of it. Can it take beating? My current pump is a tank, but I am so rough on them I usually go through at least 3 of them in a 4 year period even with the enlight pump system.
I have learned to manipulate the sensors so that i can use them on long runs, but only to an extent. I love the features the new 670 provides but I am curious if it would help me on rail runs where i need to carry enough gels and other food in my pack. I always tank on big climbs during a race and get tired of focusing on my blood sugars instead of the races.

Comment on Medtronic 670G: Experiences of a Mom + Daughter with T1D by Jennifer Bolton

Jennifer Bolton — Wed, 05 Dec 2018 14:21:07 +0000

Thank you for your reviews on the new pump and Guardian sensors. Reading over your two blogs about it have been interesting. I see that you now have been using this for a year and am curious how your perspective on the pump is now?
My husband has been contemplating getting this product, but I am always nervous about the change.
He is an active man running 20 to 30 Miles a week. His work involves sitting alot in front of a desk/computer all day.
He currently uses an older Medtronic pump with CGM, but always seems to have issues with it. (It’s soooo frustrating! Especially when I can’t do anything to help.) He has alot of issues with highs after exercise, placements of sensors/sites (he doesn’t have alot of fat and has built up scar tissue) which causes the sensor failures as well as issues with his sites, too. He currently does have issues with calibration errors, too.
I am just curious of your thoughts now that has been over a year. Any info would be helpful in helping us decide if this is a pump for him. Thank you!

Comment on Hypoglycemia and Dreams by Esteban

Esteban — Sun, 30 Sep 2018 00:39:17 +0000

I find this interesting. i’ve been diagnosed with type 1 diabetes since I was 21. I have always had these weird dreams vividly, but after getting diagnosed I noticed that my sugar was low. I exercise quite a bit and notice that I have these dreams with hypoglycemic lows more often when I I do. I know it is obviously because I am burning more calories so I need to reduce my insulin intake. I have tried everything from reducing my insulin to eating a piece of chocolate when I exercise to avoid disrupting my sleep. I noticed that nothing has really worked because regardless I wake up with hypoglycemic lows around 4-5am. I dislike it very much bc It really has an effect on my day and feel tired when I wake up. Sometimes I wake up later around 10:30am and still feel tired. I don’t really like this unproductive routine. I wish I can really get a grasp of this bc I just finished college and it is having an effect on my lifestyle to find a new career.

Comment on A Nurses Review: Medtronic 670G Insulin Pump by David Workman

David Workman — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 03:50:57 +0000

I agree totally. POS, I’m trying to return it as I’ve only had it for 3 months. Just give me a system that shuts down when you are low.

Comment on A Nurses Review: Medtronic 670G Insulin Pump by David Workman

David Workman — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 03:48:25 +0000

I agree totally. I’m trying to return mine. I’m also going to ask my doc if he got a kickback for signing me up..

Comment on A Nurses Review: Medtronic 670G Insulin Pump by David Workman

David Workman — Mon, 24 Sep 2018 03:45:32 +0000

The lawyers have really taken over logic It insults your intelligence

Comment on A Nurses Review: Medtronic 670G Insulin Pump by Michelle

Michelle — Fri, 21 Sep 2018 03:52:04 +0000

I so agree with this. I hate the sensors and pump wish I wouldn’t have switched to it

Comment on Dwarf Wheat, Another Arrow in the Backs of Americans by Colleen

Colleen — Tue, 21 Aug 2018 18:32:35 +0000

My sister is “gluten sensitive”. Wheat products cause stomach upset, diarrhea, bloody nose, and joint pain. We went to France this past spring and she ate a little bread, then she ate a little more because it is sooooo very very good! By the end of the week, bread was a diet staple and she was having no symptoms. Back in the US, eating one slice of bread knocked her down for three days. What was the difference? France does not grow and use dwarf or semi dwarf wheat. Their wheat is not genetically modified. It is older, long stalk varieties. Now I understand about scientists trying to feed the world and dwarf wheat was certainly effective in that regard, but perhaps its time we stopped changing the structure of wheat. Dwarf wheat was introduced in 1953 and has undergone numerous changes and “enhancements” to the protein and amino acid structures to make it more pest and disease resistance, shorter growing seasons, easier harvesting, etc. It is no longer about feeding the world but more about lowering costs to produce in order to maximize profits. Same with corn and soybeans. We need to stop this before our bodies no longer recognize these “food staples” as food.

Comment on Hypoglycemia and Dreams by Garrett Buck

Garrett Buck — Mon, 13 Aug 2018 13:15:41 +0000

Diagnosed 9 years ago, and am 28 years old. For most of those years when hypo, I would wake up when low, no dreams. Over the past year something weird has happened. The first time it happened, I had a dream where I was running in shoes in some sort of a desert setting video game, and the last thing I remember before I woke up was thinking “Just keep running”. I woke up thinking this, and it was the scariest thing that’s ever happened to me. It was all I could think… literally. I didn’t know I was hypoglycemic. I thought I had gone crazy… one thing was on repeat in my mind indefinitely, and I freaked out thinking the dream had hit the crazy switch. If that doesn’t sound freaky, I guess I can better describe it as what you see in nursing homes or in the movie “one flew over the cookoos nest”… picture some crazy person in a hospital walking around saying one thing over and over again, and that’s all they can do. It was pretty much exactly like that, but in my mind. Very scary to go to bed “normal” and then waking up as a “nut” and not knowing why. It is the worst feeling I’ve ever felt to not have control over my mind, and just stuck in a loop.

After a minute or two of thinking I was a nut, I thought that it may be low-blood sugar related, and after getting food it went away. Ever since this day, when I’m hypoglycemic I’ll have dreams like this… but there’s no common dream. I am on site this because the one I just had was 100% random… with highschool friends, and one was talking on and on about some trip. Woke up, same deal. Awake but stuck in a dream where all I can think about is this dumb trip that a friend is supposedly planning. The worst part is, when this happens the brain is on the brink of not knowing even where to get sugar or how to eat any. I had one time I couldn’t figure out how to open the glucose-pill container, and was debating running across my apartment hall and banging on their door at 4am.

I’ve personally attributed this phenomena to neurons not getting enough sugar, so they can’t finish the circuit/thought you have in your mind, so they just get “stuck”. When this happens, my dream-like state just becomes a closed-loop of one thought until I eat sugar and it allows my mind to move forward. This is how I visualize it at least, even if I’m way off. Regardless, this is my experience with low blood sugar. Hopefully it helps someone else out there who may think they’re alone in this regard. It’s weird how my symptoms have changed over time. It is scary to get a new symptom of hypo and not recognize it for what it is.