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The Insulin Experiment: Day 9 — I spoke too soon!

Remember how yesterday I commented that, after fasting from 8:30 am till 6pm, I was feeling better about the past week’s diabetes experiment? Not only had my new 1:8 insulin-to-carb ratio worked out well for breakfast, but I’d hovered more or less steady from 10 am till 6pm. I was...

The Insulin Experiment: Day 8

Well, I just had what was probably the dorkiest evening of my diabetic life. I haven’t eaten out in the past week, since I’m trying my best to keep track of everything I put in my mouth. But having fasted from breakfast till 6 in the evening (I wanted to...

The Insulin Experiment: Day 7

So. It’s my seventh full day of counting every carb, and I had a minor breakthrough: I decided to follow the advice of Pumping Insulin and run a little basal test. After dinner last night, I didn’t eat again until 12 noon. My goal was to figure out whether my...

The Insulin Experiment, Day 6.5: The “What if”s of Diabetes

It has been mere hours since I last blogged about my week-long experiment with my boluses and basals, but today was so confusing I thought I’d write a follow-up. First, after kicking things off right with a morning of high blood sugar, courtesy of my banana and peanut butter, I...

The Insulin Experiment, Day 6

Ever since I started the insulin workshop at UCSF last Monday, I’ve been keeping detailed logs of everything I eat, all the insulin I take, and all of my activities, in hope that some patterns will emerge that will help me refine my treatment. Before last week, I was managing...

Diabetic Fatigue

I just finished the last day of the 3 1/2 insulin workshop at the Diabetes Teaching Center at UCSF. All week, I’ve been meaning to blog about the experience — what we’re learning, what it’s like to spend three and a half days focusing entirely on diabetes, etc. But every...

Insulin Training Workshop, Part I

It is a cloudy Monday morning and I am about to head to UCSF’s Diabetes Teaching Center for my first afternoon in a 3 1/2 day insulin workshop. On the agenda for this afternoon? Diabetes-focused consultation and physical exam with an diabetologist Consultation with certified diabetes dietitian educator Consultation with...

Liraglutide (Victoza) – a new Incretin

...Thus it seems that patients can easily and safely switch from Exenatide to Liraglutide as needed. Another important issue is nausea. This is the big downside to using incretins. Many patients report significant nausea (see Catherine Price’s blog for a personal description). In the Lancet article, incidence of nausea was...

Too many broken parts!

So, it’s 6pm on a Friday night, and I think we all know where I’d like to be right now. No, not a bar — my Friday night kickboxing class. Taught by a man with a striking resemblance to Tracy Morgan, it’s an hour of jumping rope and punching things...

The Diabetic Easter Bunny

Despite the current state of my pancreas, my late diagnosis with Type 1 diabetes meant I enjoyed a childhood of sugar-filled Easter treats. In fact, one of my favorite harbingers of spring was the Cadbury Creme Egg. Do you guys know about those? Chocolate on the outside, but inside there’s...