From the “crap no one ever tells you about with diabetes” file, comes:
Dissect the word with me for a moment:
Lipo — OK, that sounds like weight loss surgery.
Hyper — Yes, we often are. How else could we juggle work, kids, exercise, myriad lab tests and doctor’s appointments, non-stop carb-counting and dosing adjustments, etc., etc. and still do our taxes?
Trophy — Do I get one, for putting up with all this diabetes…
{Editor’s Note: This is not a formal product review, like the one we published in November; this is a post about a personal relationship with a piece of essential technology.}
Just about exactly one year ago, I reported discovering that I was happier when not wearing a CGM. Now the Dexcom G4 has come along and changed my mind, again.
As noted in our 2012 Revelations post, when continuous glucose monitoring is accurate and user-friendly,…
That’s what it feels like, anyway. A millennium of skin malfunctions over here that are making my diabetes and gluten intolerance genuinely intolerable of late! (A TMI post? Read at your own risk)
The latest bout of troubles kicked off this summer when I took the new Abbott Navigator CGM sensor for a test drive. The very latex-y adhesive used to adhere that product to the skin did not get along with my skin at…
Talk about adding insult to injury! It was bad enough when my Type 1 diabetes ushered in a new era of being allergic to wheat. But now I’ve received some equally upsetting news: it seems I am also allergic to medical adhesives. Would you believe…?
“You’re the only one in the family who needs medical adhesives, and now you’re allergic to them. Isn’t that ironic or something?” my 11-year-old blurted out on the way home…