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Originally Posted by Emm 
As tempting as that might be, your health has to come first - I hope you find another way! The comments about driving might help - or maybe you can use my excuse, that menopause has interfered and I need to test more... lol.... they might have trouble believing you, what do you reckon?!
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I'd never do that...eat lots of sweets every day then get an A1C test. First off, I don't care for sweets, especially candy and chocolate. I never eat dessert, never eat cakes or pies. Heck, the one time my blood sugar went too low and I got the shakes, I knew I needed to get some carbs into me to stop the shakes. I had to resort to mixing sugar in a glass of water because there wasn't anything in my house that was sweet.(I had no fruit here either).
I wondered if there is such a thing as male menopause. From time to time I'll get these hot flashes, for no apparent reason. I'll be sitting in a chair reading or watching TV when all of a sudden, I'll start to get hot. I'll get so hot that sweat will start running down my face. It feels like the heat was suddenly turned up, but it wasn't. It'll last for maybe ten minutes or less, then it will go away.(No, I don't get mood swings.
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Originally Posted by fgummett I know that in theory Lantus has a flat curve but is it really that 100% reliable... no variability in absorption or release..? Even if it is flat is there no variation in your need for basal insulin through the day... for example I use three different basal rates through the day with my pump. |
I wondered about this also, so I've compared my morning reading (which has a little Dawn Phenomenon in it) and my before bed reading (which is after 6-8 hours of fasting), and the before dinner reading which was after 5 hours of fasting, and they are all similar....maybe 2 or 3 numbers different. There are many times when I'll go 4 hours between meals, and my before readings are always within a few points of my bedtime or first morning numbers. I took that to mean that the Lantus was keeping things at a constant level.
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Originally Posted by fgummett Are you sure it is your doctor that is limiting you or is it just a policy in his office... have you discussed it face to face with him? |
No, actually I haven't. When I call his office, I talk to his nurse. She said, " Dr. XXXX recommends that you only test 3 times a day, since you're on Lantus." From that, I got the impression that she was acting on the doctor's instructions. I'll bring it up on my next visit.
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Originally Posted by Razo681 If you have to go out and buy these things, they are outrageous, and if you're like a lot of diabetics you take your meds, whether its insulin or pills, based on the readings.. GRRR.... |
Yes, I know and I've found that weird things can affect your BG readings....things you'd never think would be a problem. The other day, I felt my throat getting sore. Never knowing if this is the onset of a cold, I sucked on a zinc tablet. They taste terrible (like an aspirin) but sucking on a zinc tablet helps to prevent a cold, if you do this at the first sign of a cold. It takes a long time for a zinc tablet to completely dissolve on your tongue, which is good since you want to keep swallowing the zinc. Hours later when I took my last reading of the night (my 6-8 hour fasting reading), instead of the usual 120 I expected, it was 199. My after dinner reading was in the 140's, which is typical, so the only thing I consumed after that reading was the zinc tablet, so it must have been the zinc that raised my numbers.(these tablets are like an aspirin....they contain no sugar, and you're not supposed to suck on them, you're supposed to swallow them whole like aspirin). If I wasn't able to test then, I'd never know that zinc did that.
