Kelly Wilhelm

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- 6 months, 1 week ago
  
  mlettinga likes your comment at
  When under stress, the body releases hormones that can trigger a rise in blood glucose levels. In which of the following types of situations have you seen a noticeable increase in your blood glucose levels? Please select all that apply to you.
  Oddly, my sugar seems to drop during stressful situations! Surgery makes me drop. Stress makes me drop. Immediately following a car accident, there was a drop and then it popped back up. I’m the unicorn!
- 7 months, 1 week ago
  
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  Do you have any programmed diabetes-related “reminders” on your phone or other technology? For example, a reminder to take your long-acting insulin every night at 10 p.m., or a reminder to bolus every day at 1 p.m.?
  I started setting a daily reminder to check my settings because I often turn off my alarms when I am in meetings, etc. and forget to turn them back on
- 7 months, 1 week ago
  
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  Do you have any programmed diabetes-related “reminders” on your phone or other technology? For example, a reminder to take your long-acting insulin every night at 10 p.m., or a reminder to bolus every day at 1 p.m.?
  I started setting a daily reminder to check my settings because I often turn off my alarms when I am in meetings, etc. and forget to turn them back on
- 8 months, 1 week ago
  
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  Have the health insurance benefits offered by an employer ever caused you to accept a job or stay at a job that you otherwise would have preferred to leave?
  It didn’t impact my job decisions but I did stay in a marriage too long bc of insurance benefits!!
- 8 months, 1 week ago
  
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  Have the health insurance benefits offered by an employer ever caused you to accept a job or stay at a job that you otherwise would have preferred to leave?
  It didn’t impact my job decisions but I did stay in a marriage too long bc of insurance benefits!!
- 8 months, 1 week ago
  
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  Have the health insurance benefits offered by an employer ever caused you to accept a job or stay at a job that you otherwise would have preferred to leave?
  It didn’t impact my job decisions but I did stay in a marriage too long bc of insurance benefits!!
- 10 months, 1 week ago
  
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  If you were to go on a 7-day trip away from home, which of the following supplies would you bring, in addition to what you would normally use in 7 days? Select all that apply to you.
  Depends where I’m going. If it is a populated area with easy access to pharmacies then I don’t usually bring extra insulin. The more rural the area, the more I carry.
- 11 months, 4 weeks ago
  
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  If you have had surgery while living with T1D, were you able to choose the person who managed your T1D during the procedure? If you have had surgery multiple times, please answer for your most recent procedure.
  I didn’t get to choose who would manage bc the anesthesiologist was in charge but I thoroughly explained (with written directions) and I had someone “follow”. There was an issue with Dex not working due to equipment interference but they just did finger sticks.
- 11 months, 4 weeks ago
  
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  If you have had surgery while living with T1D, were you able to choose the person who managed your T1D during the procedure? If you have had surgery multiple times, please answer for your most recent procedure.
  I didn’t get to choose who would manage bc the anesthesiologist was in charge but I thoroughly explained (with written directions) and I had someone “follow”. There was an issue with Dex not working due to equipment interference but they just did finger sticks.
- 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  AnitaS has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  When I had surgery last year and couldn't exercise for a few months, my time-in-range was very good. I was shocked but I shouldn't have been as exercise is one of the things that make my diabetes harder to keep under control. During recovery, I didn't have the ups-n-downs in blood sugar that I usually have when I exercise.
- 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Janis Senungetuk has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  Fortunately that hasn't been an issue for quite some time. If I need help beyond what I've learned from 67 years of previous experience, I'd contact my endo or CDE.
- 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Pauline M Reynolds has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  1. Contact primary care physician. 2. Only time I had an intestinal infection, I kept a can of sugar Sprite by my side and drank it according to my BG's.
- 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  kim bullock has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  My experience having had diabetes for 29 years.
- 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Mick Martin has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  Ha ha! Sports medicine doctor. lol. I experienced a very similar situation when I had an ingrown tooth and my dentist refused to treat me because I was taking steroids ... NOT anything like prednisone, but a long-standing steroid, called Fludrocortisone, which stimulates the adrenal glands to push up my blood pressure, and also when I WAS taking prednisone and was admitted to hospital, and my doses were being titrated to a lower level, and some clown doctor requested the ward staff to increase my insulin doses. I tried to explain to the doctor that he'd got it wrong, and that because my prednisone was being titrated downwards I would require less insulin, NOT more. Of course, the clown wouldn't listen to me, stating that he was the one 'with the bit of paper', until a doctor had to be summoned from the Accident and Emergency department during the night as I was convulsing with a severely low blood glucose level.
- 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Bonnie Lundblom has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  Only "illness" that makes it really difficult to control my blood sugar is getting steroid injections into my cervical spine or fingers. I leave my basal rate on my pump at 250% and need much higher bolus doses and many "extra" doses if my blood sugar remains really high. I tell the MD's that it turns my insulin into tap water and try to avoid it, experience with having gotten these injections over the past few years has helped, but having blood sugars of 400-500 despite much higher basal and bolus dosing is so frustrating!
- 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Mick Martin has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  I selected "My health care provider – calling, emailing, or going to their office to ask questions", but I also use my own knowledge, from what I've learned about diabetes over the last 40-odd years. ;-)
- 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  cynthia jaworski has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  Except for those brand new at this, we all know the drill. We know that we need to be flexible, make adjustments, and pay attention.
- 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Bruce Schnitzler has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  A combination of DexCom G6 and an insulin pump provide adequate management.
- 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  gary rind has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  only time that I have been sick was when I got COVID during Jan '22. my sugars were going crazy high and I couldn't understand why but when I tested positive for COVID, in retrospect it made sense.
- 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  David & Kaleo of Team Nani has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  My illnesses are rarely bad enough to eliminate ALL movement, but missing workouts does impact my #'s. I try to walk more. I do know that antibiotics (Zpack comes to mind) shoots sugar up a ton. Anything like prednisone/other steroids do the same. What to do? Avoid any illness, seek Heath&Wellness coach who helps me stay committed and accountable for implementing my wellness vision and related behaviors. It works! My A1C has been below 6.2 for years.
- 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  George Hamilton has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  Many times I have needed to adjust insulin intake amount in order to cope with illness, but only rarely needed outside help. In the early 1970’s I made some mistakes managing influenza. My BG went very high (no meter available for testing at home), and I ended up in the hospital then.
- 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Marty has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  I remember getting a "sick day" pamphlet when I was first diagnosed decades ago. As others have said, I rely on experience and trial-and-error to manage BGs that are out of the ordinary. I was amused when my sports medicine doctor told me to ask my primary care doctor what to do when I told her that cortisone injections would raise my BG. (At first, she insisted that steroids wouldn't affect my BG unless I was "unusually sensitive.")
- 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Grey Gray has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  Been type 1 since the early 80's learned self management as therapies changed. Unless hospitalized(which I never am anymore) I decide how much insulin to put in my body based on my on going experience with the 1000's of reasons I may need more or less of it. I do love my pump, insulin and CGM so I guess I have to tell the doctor what I do once a year. .. I just keep throwing info and facts he isn't up on till he gets a glazed over look on his face and writes my scripts. I find the most inconvenient part of diabetes is all the people that want to help but don't know much about everyday life with the disease. And NO I do not want to join a discussion group!
- 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  CindyGoddard has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  I follow clarity constantly to keep my sugars as low as possible when I’m sick
- 1 year, 2 months ago
  
  Ernie Richmann has commented in the same post you commented in :
  When you experience an illness that makes your blood glucose levels more difficult to manage (whether because you are unable to eat, the stress of being sick, or any other reason), what resources do you refer to for help managing your blood glucose levels while sick? Please select all that apply to you.
  Just did what makes sense to me- eating less carbs, watching blood glucose more often and taking corrections as needed. Also some level of activity if possible.
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