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Hi — it's Jake. I figured out how to use repeat with my high alert to avoid insulin stacking!
Check this out! I'd taken insulin to cover dinner but then ended up having a couple bites of dessert, too. My high alert went off; I have it set to
275. Here's the trick: I had my repeat set to 2 hours, which gives the insulin I already took time to act. So I didn't take more insulin because I
knew I could confirm the alert and it would remind me in 2 hours if I was still high.
This not only helps me not stack, it also takes a lot of stress out of watching and waiting!
I also wanted to let you know how I used my high alert setting to lower my A1C. I just met with my endocrinologist and my A1C has dropped
from 10 to 8.5! Yes!
At our last appointment a couple months ago, she explained what an A1C of 10 meant. "So Jake," she said, "your average blood glucose is
275 mg/dL! That's elevated -- almost seriously elevated." Almost seriously elevated? That's bad. Then she gave me some tips for bringing
that down. Let me tell you what I did!
The first month, I set my High Alert at 285 so I'd know when I was just a little over my average and could take a walk to bring it down right
then. I went on a lot of walks! Seriously, I should get a dog.
That went pretty well, so the next month, as planned, I lowered my High Alert to 275. That was tougher at first, but between the walks and
insulin, I got it to work. And hey! Look at those results! Getting the information that I was a little high in time to do something about it made a
huge difference over 2 months. I'm sticking with this! I bet I can get my A1C to 9 for my next visit!
Hi! It's Kate, Kelly's mom. Her dad and I are concerned because she doesn't seem to feel her lows.
Last month, Kevin picked her up from school and immediately gave her one of the emergency juice boxes we keep in the car. She was
wandering around, completely spacey. And no wonder — she was at 65 mg/dL and falling. She got her low alert at 70, but hadn't done
anything about it. What happened there?
That scared us enough to bring up her lows with her endocrinologist at her appointment last week. He was awesome about it, as usual. He
showed us how we could use the Low Alert setting to get Kelly's attention while she can still think clearly enough to act on it and while
there's time for her to eat something to avoid a low.
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