What are your 5 worst Diabetic Habits ?

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Permalink Reply by Ruth on November 24, 2009 at 8:43pm

I'm laughing so hard because I have so many of the ones you all have posted.

1. Overtreating a low.
2. Not changing lancets for months on end
3. Eating too many carbs
4. I have "favorite" fingers, too, but I do try to actually rotate amongst all of them...that's TRY, I don't always succeed :(

Ruth

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Permalink Reply by Rachelle on March 30, 2009 at 3:35pm

bahahhaa! I have to laugh, these are the only glucose tabs I'll eat - I won't go near any other flavor! I like the lemon/lime glucose liquids though, those are so choice. :o)

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Permalink Reply by Anngelia on November 3, 2009 at 6:27am

I LOVE the watermelon ones! But only the Dex 4 brand. The other ones dont taste as good to me.

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Permalink Reply by Anngelia on November 3, 2009 at 6:29am

When I had trouble finding them in the local store I did find them on Amazon.

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Permalink Reply by jen on February 27, 2009 at 2:04pm

you and me both! GoGrApE! i just bought a bottle of mixed fruit. ack cough ick. They're all S'nasty. i gave them to my 14 year old son who for some freak reason thinks they're delicious. ooooooh and butter toffee (i think) fall into the 'why did this ever get out of the early stages of development' category. Sooooo Grossssss

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Permalink Reply by Michael Park on March 22, 2009 at 3:58pm

Why is it so easy to convince ourselves of #1?!?

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Permalink Reply by Jonathan on February 23, 2009 at 2:28pm

Here are the top 5 (as of today -- it changes all the time):

1. Using the same 5 fingers over and over again to test.
2. Did someone say "cookies".
3. Too many carbs per meal. Too many calories per meal.
4. Too little exercise (I did go to the gym twice this week, and am thinking about going again tomorrow).
5. Not seeing the doctor often enough.

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Permalink Reply by Terry Keelan on February 23, 2009 at 3:52pm

1. Ignoring the alarms on my pump.
2. Not bolusing for snacks - gets me every time.
3. Not washing my hands before testing - had lead to artificially high readings, over correcting and then a low. Now it leads to wasted test strips because I can't believe the number is that high.
4. Waiting to the v-e-r-y l-a-s-t d-r-o-p before recharging my pump reservoir
5. Ditto - convincing myself that 150 or 160 is acceptable.

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Permalink Reply by 1HappyDiabetic on February 23, 2009 at 5:30pm

# 4.. Funny I let my Low Reservior Alarm go off twice before changing sometimes... Bad habit for sure :-)

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Permalink Reply by Joanie on February 23, 2009 at 8:40pm

oh ya, on #4

I wait until i'm literally OUT. very bad habit indeed

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Permalink Reply by Kathy on February 23, 2009 at 4:48pm

I agree with everything said above, and I'll add one more - when my dawn phenomonon is very active and I wake up high, I have a little troll inside who says "shoot you're already high - why not stop at Starbucks and get a giant cinnamon roll? - what difference will it make". So, I do that and spend the rest of the day chasing readings of 300, and then finally crashing from too much correction. On the flip side, if I deal with a fasting high, I can usualy be on track by mid-morning.

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Permalink Reply by 1HappyDiabetic on February 23, 2009 at 5:31pm

LoL :-)

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