[JediSkipdogg]

The good news is that for the first time in about 5 years my cholesterol is under 100. My LDL was 88 and my HDL was 42.

The bad news is that in eating healthier to obtain those numbers my A1C has risen. It was a 7.6 this time. Also the highest in about 5 years. Seems I can't win but then again instead of eating McDonalds all the time I've been eating like McAlisters and other sandwich shops. The problem is many of them don't have nutrition info so it's alot of guestimating.

The worst part though is the change to Apidra hasn't helped at all. I still appear to be having the dreaded insulin coming out from around the canula on occasion. I believe it was xMenace that gave the advice of using tape under and over the infusion set. I have done that but I still see/smell/feel insulin bubbling out from around the set. The doctor looked at my stomach and asked how ofter I change sets and I mentioned every 3-3.5 days. I can't go over 3.5 days cause then my cartridge is out of insulin and I hate just changing one part and not the other. SHe thinks I'm just a slow healer and that may be part of the problem as when she counted "spots" on my stomach, I had almost 3 months worth showing still.

I do think part may be the fast infusion of the Animas pump and I'm hoping in the next 6 months they will come out with a new pump, but so far I've heard nothing. They did offer to let me try out a "Pod" for a few days though but said I should ask the company first. They said their trainer had the same worries as I've had about it and most were turned around except the trainer did leave the PDA at home one day and "couldn't eat" in a sense. That would be my biggest problem.

She also suggested maybe I take a pump break with summer coming up. I said that's a possibility but would be hard with my basal pattern. She said she'll do some more reasearch for me to find out why I am having set problems and at my next appointment we could come up with a solution to solve it all. That was my doctor visit today. One of the longest I've had in a while, but also one of the nicest. And it wasn't with my endo, but her CNP.