Hi let me tell you a bit about myself, I am a 50 year old woman that is wanting perfection with my health. Hmm don't know if that is possible with my situation. I have been ill since I have been 7 years old and the older I get the worse it becomes.I have been to so many Doctors I can't even count the times, yeah ! and believe me that gets old. I was born with a fat cell disorder I do not have fat cells my condition is called lipodystophy which causes several medical conditions. Well it was hard to live with at a younger age because I didn't understand it and you know how it is when you are a child, kids can be cruel. well got through that chapter of my life. When I reached the age of 13 I started having pains in my stomach, my mother took me to the doctor and the diagnosis was nervous stomach. Well they treated me with different stomach medicines and then it went to nerve pills. They came up with nervous stomach so I take them and the whole time I wasn;t getting any better. The years went by and nothing was better I still hurt, but I noticed I was in more pain. Finally when I reached the age of 32 it was so bad I would double over in terrible pain just couldn't take it anymore. My mother and I found a doctor out of town and the doctor says well we are going to remove your Gall Bladder and see if that helps. Well he set me up with a surgeothe Gall Bladder came out and I was healing with that. Well the pain came back and at its peak very bad pain. Well then the doctor that I was going to sent me to New Orleans Ochsner Clinic. Went to the doctor there and he did a test with the scope down the throat, by that time I didn't care what they did to me. Well he roped a piece of my intestines and found tumors covered my intestines and pancreas. So that mean't surgery again, but this surgery is called a whipple. They had to reroute my my bile ducts all my plumbing, just trying to have a sense of humor. Well I had the surgery and stayed in the hospital eight days and it was really hard to get through those days.Went home and was home one week and developed Pancreatitis which is a complication after the surgery. My pancreas was infected and had to go back to the hospital for 17 days that time. They kept me so doped up I slept alot. That is very painful would wish that on anybody. I had to have a feeding tube up my nose and down the throat very uncomfortable but I couldn't eat or drink anything for 17 days. Okay finally get through that took over a year, and 5 years later I was diagnosed with Diabeties, you see they had to remove alot of my pancreas so it was not putting out insulin. They put me on insulin injections and put me on Metformin, Well my regular doctor kept me for 11 years and never did he send me to a diabetic class or an Endocronoligist, my sugars were all over the place. My pancreas ended up infected again back to the hospital for 11 days so the doctors in new orleans recommend me to go to a internal medicine doctor. I found my wonderful doctor close to me and the first thing she did was sending me to a diabetic class which I learned alot. I learned how to count carbs.Well went back to my doctor and still could not get my BG in control so she sends me to a Endo doctor out of town. I start seeing him and he treated me and was able to put me on an insulin pump which I have been on the pump for almost two years now and still can not get it in control. So I took another route I found a Doctor in Houston Texas he is a great doctor and he knew the fat disorder that I have just by looking at me. My sugars has been crashing so bad it has went down to 20, It scared me so bad my husband was going to take me to the hospital but I came out of it thank god.
So I went back to him and he recommends me to bolus 3 hours after I eat even though it goes high they can't get it control.
My lipodystrophy is causing my insulin to not absorb like it should. when I put my set in it goes into my muscle instead of fat so it goes through my body too fast and it makes my sugars crash. He would rather it stay a little high than go low. I hate lows it makes you sick. My doctor recommends the Dexcom seven plus, which I am waiting for the system as we speak they are sending it too me. It will alarm you if your sugar is going too low or to high. If anyone is using the device tell me about it.