Recent Hb1ac.. I am pleased!

Happy to report that my last hb1ac was 7.4 down from the whopping 8.7. I had hoped for it to be lower but I see now that this is just going to take more time. I'm not beating myself up too much over it not being lower. I had lost some weight and found that I was taking too much basal. Now my settings are as follows:

• 12:00 am-1:30 am-.55
• 1:30 - 5:00 am- .60
• 5:00 am- 1:30 pm-.50
• 1:30 pm-4:30 pm-52.5

I've been satisfied with this new Animas ping pump and meter. It's getting the job done. I find I still don't use the food menu carb counter feature but plan on it in the future. My endocrinologist suggested I should lower my basal rate at my last appointment. As I said I had lost weight but another reason to lower my basals were due to the fact that I was not taking in enough bolus insulin. My ratios were totally off. Started a new job and found I was running around skipping lunch every once in a while. Until I get used to this job I can count on it being up and down I guess. Let's see, what else to report..I have almost denied myself pizza altogether. I know I could use my bolus setting for a square and could maybe have pizza but right now it just isn't worth the hassle. I think only once in the past month have I had pizza and I stopped myself at one slice. Before this I would have maybe 4 or 5 and that carb load was really too much for me. I took my bolus all at once, I would go low. I scattered it about over 6 hours like I have been told to do and I would still be 300+ come morning time. Another thing to report is I am getting much better at pacing myself when it comes to activity and am suffering less lows now.

Basals, Activity and Water...oh my!

For the past few months I've struggled with higher numbers and only recently I'm beginning to think this had to do with my basal rate being too high. I could go to bed with a reading of 100 and wake without having eaten anything to a whopping 300. Another thing, the past few days I've been way more active than usual and had been suffering numerous lows so I set my rate back to .55 per hour starting late last night. Today my numbers were so excellent I can hardly believe it :) I've tried to think of everything I can that would help me get a handle on my numbers and have tighter control. One thing is drinking more water. I get busy and forget about water intake like many do. Now I'm convinced it isn't one thing I've done different the past few days, but 3 and they would be:

• basal adjustments
• increased activity
  
• increased water intake.