shots, pumps, meters, doctors, wierd BG numbers . . . http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/list.php?23 Thu, 09 Sep 2010 09:48:19 -0700 Phorum 5.2.11 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,2390,2390#msg-2390 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,2390,2390#msg-2390
Thought I would share a couple of sites that I use for recipes and carb counting that I find useful

www.allrecipes.com This sight allows you to convert recipes from cup measurements to weights by selecting metric at the top of the recipe. Also the recipes are rated and have comments so you can tell if its going to be a good or not.

http://nutritiondata.self.com Has a great database of food that you can search to find out the nutritional information.


Louise]]> NotAllThere DIABETIC CHAT Thu, 02 Sep 2010 13:09:23 -0700 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,2389,2389#msg-2389 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,2389,2389#msg-2389
My son currently uses the ezy fit case to carry his gear around in. It will not fit in the extra bits he needs for his pump. What does everyone else use to carry around their gear?

[www.diabete-ezy.com]

We also use the Ezy wipes which we find very handy.

Thanks
Louise]]> NotAllThere DIABETIC CHAT Thu, 02 Sep 2010 19:38:41 -0700 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,2295,2295#msg-2295 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,2295,2295#msg-2295
I have a hard time focusing during the day and not dwelling on "I wonder what her sugar is doing now". I feel like her Endo's gonna wonder what exactly I did right, after this mess. Have you found something that helps?

Here's what I've done and/or asked for: She has an index card each day with times, bs spot, carb spot and insulin spots to mark down. It also lists everything she has with her to eat and drink, carbs for each item, and specific unit amounts for each item. She also has a chart of BS ranges and the appropriate correction dose to take for whatever he sugar is.

She's supposed to check a minimum of 930am and just before lunch - and take insulin and eat something at both those times. Writing down on her card the numbers and then showing those to her teacher (as proof that she actually did them - and so she doesn't have to remember what exactly she took/ate at each time after the day is over). And of course, there are extra spots in case she needs extra checks. I've also told the teacher if she's low, she's to drink her juice (she keeps her emergency juice bottle in her back pack) and recheck in 15 minutes.

(BTW - she's 9 yrs old and in 4th grade. And there is not a school nurse.) She knows intellectually everything she is supposed to do and when, but, I guess like all children, she gets busy, puts them off, and ends up not doing them (such as, putting off taking a shot and forgetting; or eating without checking her sugar first). And just as comparison, she did all of this almost perfectly (very few mess-ups) when she was in second grade, including looking up her own correction amounts and food amounts off her card, then telling the office lady - where she did her shots/checks - how much she was supposed to take - so she's definitely capable.


Any other ideas of how to make things easier, or assure that they actually get done?]]> mindi DIABETIC CHAT Thu, 02 Sep 2010 21:07:53 -0700 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,2159,2159#msg-2159 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,2159,2159#msg-2159
Was going to check with Abi, but it appears her site is down right now.

Again, the website is www.IrisAlertDog.com (and yes, I don't know what I'm doing making the website, so if someone wants to volunteer to help doctor up her site, I'm open to hearing about that as well).]]> mindi DIABETIC CHAT Mon, 09 Aug 2010 09:48:20 -0700 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,2152,2152#msg-2152 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,2152,2152#msg-2152
Just a quick not to say that after fund raising and three years of battling my son is finally getting a pump. He gets his Animas 2020 in a months time.

If anyone has any tips or advice to help us transition from injection to pump would be most appreciated.

Thanks.]]> NotAllThere DIABETIC CHAT Fri, 03 Sep 2010 15:58:57 -0700 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,2059,2059#msg-2059 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,2059,2059#msg-2059 I love being on the pump but I could be loosing my insurance in the future and am trying to see what will be cheaper but also keep me healthy.The last time I was on shots it did not work for me at all but I know there are newer insulins now and am hoping that might change things.
Any input on Multiple daily injections would be helpful:S]]> Kimmer DIABETIC CHAT Sun, 08 Aug 2010 13:11:51 -0700 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1900,1900#msg-1900 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1900,1900#msg-1900 [www.wired.com]

I'm hoping this works!

Olia Palmer]]> Palmers DIABETIC CHAT Thu, 20 May 2010 14:22:51 -0700 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1847,1847#msg-1847 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1847,1847#msg-1847
Have not been around on the phorum much. Far too much to do and not enough time in the day.

My daughter has been diagnosed with Coeliacs (she had a biopsy done when blood test came back positive) and I'm in the middle of getting my head around what she can and cant have, looking for recipes and getting the rest of the family tested.

Joshua has a blood test for coeliacs every year with his annual Diabetes review. It has always come back negative. It's all very confusing with different opinions on false negative tests and the different blood tests that they can do. He has the same symptom as his sister and I am wondering if I should fight to get a biopsy.

Does anyone else here have themselves or has children with coeliacs? Anyone have any advice on how to proceed?
Does having undiagnosed Coeliacs affect blood sugar control?

Dog training has been put on hold as I am exhausted. 9 health related appointments in 3 weeks is not fun.

Once again... help! please

Louise]]> NotAllThere DIABETIC CHAT Mon, 09 Aug 2010 12:50:19 -0700 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1713,1713#msg-1713 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1713,1713#msg-1713
KC]]> FetchExpress DIABETIC CHAT Wed, 24 Mar 2010 22:04:14 -0700 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1655,1655#msg-1655 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1655,1655#msg-1655 scottandshana2003@yahoo.com.

Thank you,
Shana]]> Shana Eppler DIABETIC CHAT Thu, 11 Mar 2010 18:02:18 -0700 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1626,1626#msg-1626 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1626,1626#msg-1626
Thanks
Louise]]> NotAllThere DIABETIC CHAT Tue, 31 Aug 2010 00:22:54 -0700 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1581,1581#msg-1581 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1581,1581#msg-1581
Anyone else have the "sneaking food" problem - and if so, how do you handle it? We tried keeping hotdogs, cottage cheese, etc stuff in the fridge so she could have when she was hungry in between meals. Yeah, she ate four one afternoon - turns out there's 5 grams of carbs per hotdog - and sugar went through the roof again.

Just five grams of carbs seems to shoot her up over 100 pts. She goes through a ton of eggs too when I'm not watching.]]> mindi DIABETIC CHAT Fri, 05 Mar 2010 08:36:16 -0700 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1544,1544#msg-1544 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1544,1544#msg-1544 Valliegirl DIABETIC CHAT Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:44:58 -0700 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1528,1528#msg-1528 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1528,1528#msg-1528 Valliegirl DIABETIC CHAT Sat, 29 May 2010 06:03:42 -0700 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1526,1526#msg-1526 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1526,1526#msg-1526
The Dr and nurses advice is fine, but sometimes I think "but you don't live with this." It would be nice to know other families ways of dealing with life with diabetes.

My other question is does anyone else experience blood sugars over a time just starting to creep up? Our son has major insulin changes and is right for about six weeks and then slowly his blood sugars go up. If we try and adjust the insulin up slowly nothing happens and he has to have a big change again to knock them back into shape. It's like his body builds up a resistance to the insulin.

for example he was on lantus for his long acting and carb counting for his novorapid. That was not working so they put him on Lantus, actrapid, protafane, and novorapid. That worked for a while. Once his blood sugars were going up again they said to adjust his lantus. Which didn't work. Then the nurse said to give him a heap of lantus so he went from 16u to 20u. We had to drop the actrapid and the novorapid as he was having lows and he had the most fantastic blood sugars for about 6 weeks. I told the nurse it might not be conventional but its working. But now we are back to the hospital to talk about the next change.

We would like to get a pump for him but at this stage I'm not holding out any hope that it will work for him either.

Louise]]> NotAllThere DIABETIC CHAT Wed, 12 May 2010 07:37:39 -0700 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1525,1525#msg-1525 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1525,1525#msg-1525
Now I get a phone call from the head of the school wanting to know why Joshua was not wanting to going to camp. And he has the nerve to say "We are fine looking after him as school, I don't see how there would be any different taking care of him at camp. He's pretty well sorted." Keeping in mind Joshua doesn't do any injections at school takes care of his own lows and if he is high doesn't tell anyone and deals with it when he gets home!

He made me feel like an over bearing mother who pampers her boy far too much and that Diabetes was nothing to be concerned about. It's like people just don't want to deal with it or they blindly think that it doesn't really affect those afflicted. Joshua's blood sugars are fine at school so suddenly he's cured? I don't think so!

I explained with the extra activity insulin would need to be adjusted and every night he would need to be checked at 2-3am. So in the end he said that he would make an exception and that I could attend camp with Joshua.

Joshua and I are still deciding...

Rant over now!


Louise]]> NotAllThere DIABETIC CHAT Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:30:32 -0700 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1481,1481#msg-1481 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,1481,1481#msg-1481 Thanks and I wish everyone the best!]]> TriciaZ DIABETIC CHAT Wed, 03 Mar 2010 19:36:25 -0700 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,641,641#msg-641 http://diabeticalertdog.com/forum/read.php?23,641,641#msg-641 Anyways the A1C for a person without Diabetes is usually 5.0 - 5.5 that converts to an average daily BS of around 100 so that would be perfect. So a person with Type 1 Diabetes and their doctor are trying like crazy for a number under 7.0 which converts to an average daily BS of around 170. Now this is an AVERAGE so several 300s and 40s could conceivably round out to under 7.0 which was what my doctor was suggesting. I however know it to be because Lily is helping me to catch the BS before they go wildly high or low. I am not saying that I no longer have 300s nor 50s, but I have not had any 500s nor 30s since she has been my helper.
Other question, Lily's alert is a paw, she is very gentle, but yet insistent if I am not paying attention. I used to be positive that the paw was only for an alert for me but just this week she has decided to try the paw out on other people.....NOW with her pawing other people and other people thinking it is SO darn cute, I've had to get assertive and instruct people NOT to pay her any attention as the paw needs to be "saved" for me and my high/low BS.
And yes I am testing like crazy and you are right, happily. Sometimes Lily alerts, I look at my journal and see how many times I've stuck myself today and think NO not again, then test and my BS is 130 and I think Oh, boy I'll have to test yet again in 20 minutes....!!! I did not teach a different alert for high and low as I need to test every time, I wanted it to be as simple for the dog as possible.............]]> minnesota.ann DIABETIC CHAT Wed, 07 Oct 2009 20:19:41 -0700