I have this sensor thingy attached to my love handle

sugardumplin · #1 (**permalink**) 06-03-2008, 09:36 AM

I just got back from my endo's office where I met with these people that stuck a sensor in my side to record my blood sugar all day for the next 72 hours. I am pretty excited about it. I hope it helps clear up some diagnosis issues I think I am having. I still think I am not a Type 2. But I am not a doctor either so, I just wanna make sure that they check every knook and krannie.

Has anyone else worn this little device. I think its called the CGMS iPro Digital Recorder.

My next blood work will be the GAD antibody. I just cant wait to figure this junk out. It's very bothersome.

Keezheekoni · #2 (**permalink**) 06-03-2008, 10:11 AM

Yep. A lot of us have the home user version of that, the MM Guardian or the MM Paradigm system w/ CGMS. The one you have is just for doctor's offices, as IIRC you can't see the results until it's downloaded on your doc's computer.

What other tests have you had that make you suspect you're not type 2? Is it that oral drugs don't work for you? Just curious...

sugardumplin · #3 (**permalink**) 06-03-2008, 10:27 AM

I am not overweight and I am very active. I am 29. I found out I have diabetes from my urologist because I had a bad UTI that the antibiotics wasnt helping. I have been fighting UTI's for about 10 years now. All the symptoms that I have been having- have been symptoms that i have had since my first born child. I was on actos plus met and my numbers were still high. it wasnt until they put me on insulin -that my numbers finally came down. then i started going low so i took myself off of insulin.my endo put me on byetta- which seems to help with my after meals spike although- they are still not good- but they arent bad either. and now i am back on insulin again with the byetta because my numbers are slowly creeping back up in the 200's again. i am completely off of metformin. i couldnt take it without it making me severly ill. i could be a type 2. but i just wanna make totally sure that i am. my first a1c was 9.2 i think it was 6.6 the second time. I just wanna get leveled out.

Keezheekoni · #4 (**permalink**) 06-03-2008, 10:29 AM

It makes sense that you could be T1 or 1.5 then. It seems there are quite a few of us who were misdiagnosed because of pregnancy!

Stupid doctors...

mortis505 · #5 (**permalink**) 06-03-2008, 10:14 PM

Many doctors dont look past the label of a diabetic. Juvenile Diabetes (a.k.a. T1) CAN effect adults as well as children. But many doctors believe that since you are an adult it must be T2.

Get that test done soon. Gad and C-peptide. And let us know the results.

sugardumplin · #6 (**permalink**) 06-06-2008, 02:33 PM

i got it taken out this morning. relieved. it was starting to bug me knowing all that blood was under there. ewww. anyways....i went and had my bloodwork done this morning. my a1c and my GAD. the GAD was pissing me off because no one knew what it was or how to draw for it. i was at the doc's office in the lab for 1.5 hours total. rediculous. my endo ordered it and i did it at my PCP office. hopefully this will get some good results and they can get me fixed up.