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Question About Taking Insulin

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> Hi All,

> has been home one week and he has been taking some insulin

> whenever his blood sugar comes above 120, well, we go above 125 and he is

> being tested four times a day because they were concerned about the

> glucose content in the food he gets in the feeding tube and the fact he

> has pancreatitis.

> So they may be over cautious with him. It was a bugger getting the

> insurance to pay for the insulin and the pharmacy was wonderful enough to

> let him have a box the first night Georgie tried to pick it up. I think it

> has 100 units in there and it is so tiny.

> Georgie has been injecting and we are using my Prodigy because the

> meter and test strips they supplied with 's prescription are not

> compatible with each other. He has the ten strips with his meter and they

> claim to be the same company yet are made differently than the separate

> strips. Lucky I had bought that supply of test strips and have just

> started the ones I got from CCS Medical.

> Well, I decided to get a couple testings right when I get up before my

> medication in the morning and give it to the doctor today. when he comes.

> I had 151, 170 and today a whopping 230.

> I think I know he is going to put me on insulin. I have been dreading it.

> Now, what do you guys recommend I get so I can give it to myself or can I

> do with what they provide. I see what a tiny amount 2 units must be and it

> gives me the Willies along with just thinking of injecting myself. It even

> gives me Willies to think of Georgie doing it to me. I still skip a beat

> when he does the lancet for testing even though I have had two months to

> get used to it.

> I still have about 28 glyburides left in this bottle but I think he is

> going to make a change and I am anxious about what he is going to say

> about my foot too.

> I had a rough night with calling me every 5 or 10 minutes between

> 1:30 and 3:30 this morning until I just started crying and could not stop

> and told him nothing could be so important as to call me that many times

> in two hours. It was just little things like move his leg an inch this or

> that way, straighten his head pillow, pick him upward in the ged, pull him

> up toward the head of the bed, move his arm, recover his site where the

> feeding tube is, just dittling with this and that.

> I felt awful and am darned scared of what Dr. will say and do

> about my case. Also have to keep track of some matters about 's

> case.

> It was an awful setback to burst out crying in front of him when he is so

> weak and helpless. But I really did feel he was pulling my chain for

> security or I should say insecurity reasons.

> So maybe you can put my mind a little more at ease about insulin as you

> did about testing.

> Thanks.

> Lora

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