I hate that title, because it implies that I dislike Symlin. That’s not true. I like it a lot. Most of the time. The few times I don’t like it are memorable. Take this experience from about a month ago. One of Symlin’s main jobs is to slow digestion. This helps the post-meal blood sugar […]
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What’s my insulin to emotion factor?
I’ve always been aware of emotions and stress affecting blood sugars. I’ve always thought to watch for it and try to “do something”, but it’s always been a very vague thing. Vague things are hard to deal with on an action level. Vague things are… vague. Action things are very specific. Yesterday we celebrated my […]
Screw It! I’ll Just Eat The Rest…
A while back I wrote about a fight I had with a can of tomato soup (which I lost…). Tonight I had a similar experience with my dinner. I took a shot of symlin then put together my meal. I programmed my meal bolus to be spread out over 90 minutes (because of the symlin), […]
It Wasn’t The Insulin… Literally
I figured out what put me in the hospital. I actually figured it out a few days ago, but I was so embarrassed that I didn’t want to talk about it. After a short talk with one of my board members yesterday, I’ve decided that to hold back would be bad. I feel I have […]
Symlin Stuff (part 1)
Based on the comments I’ve received on using Symlin, there are a lot of questions and interest in it. I’ll post a bit about it periodically, just hoping to keep the posts somewhat short and digestible. I’ve done a few posts on Symlin already, and I’ll round them up here so you can take a peek […]