The good, the bad, and the high bs! Going out to eat can be fun, but getting a high blood sugar isn’t so much fun. Trying to guess the carbs for the food you are going to eat, versus the carbs you actually eating, versus what you dose for. It stinks! If you don’t guess right, it’s too high or too low with no in between.
The Buffet
Recently I went to a Chinese buffet. I dosed the insulin for what I thought the carbs were going to be, but that wasn’t enough. My blood sugars still climbed into the 300’s! Yikes! Thankfully my pump saw the spikes and started dosing corrections before I did. So, it kept me out of the 400’s at least.
The Pump
I haven’t written a post about it the pump yet. I’m not sure where to start. Going from a Medtronic Revel 723, to a brand-new Medtronic 780G was kind of a shock. It’s totally different technology. Having the One button Inserter, the Guardian 4 Sensor, the App for my iPhone® and Apple Watch®, it’s a switch. Especially the technology behind the 780G. Smart Guard is great.
I haven’t gotten it all figured out yet, but Medtronic has been there to answer questions for me. OH, and for those of you that are considering switching to the 780G and have the Guardian 3 Sensors, you can still use them with the 780G. Medtronic doesn’t officially support this, but you can in fact, in my personal experience, use the G3 Sensors with the G4 Transmitter. The only problem I had, was I got asked to do finger sticks a lot.
You still have to do finger sticks with the G4 sensors from time to time, but not nearly as much as the G3 sensors. I will try to make a video or write a post or maybe both, for the site next weekend. Even with a pump system, you still have to deal with the good, the bad, and the high bs.
What to do?
What do you do? Do you dose insulin way before you eat, or right when you sit down to eat? How do you count the carbs when you go to a buffet? What is your method to stay in your blood sugar range that you and the doctor came up with?
I mentioned the that I’m on an insulin pump. For those who don’t know, I started as a type 2 diabetic. Then this year, I was diagnosed as type 1. Damn. Not only do I have to have a device connected to me now, but now I have to worry about catching the tubing on things and accidently ripping it out. I’m already clumsy. Did we really have to add something else for me to worry about?
Living
But I’m living with it. If you want to check out the pump I’m using, visit Medtronic 780G System. So, leave your suggestions and tips in the comments below for others, on how you dose your insulin for going out to eat. So, we all deal with the good, the bad, and the high bs!
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