Yesterday I was hooked up to my new Paradign Veo pump by Medtronic. The Veo is Canada's only pump with the ability to monitor blood glucose levels using a continuous glucose monitoring system.
Let's rewind a bit... In 2009, I received my first pump - the Animas Ping. I LOVED my Animas Ping and it's been my diabetes buddy since I started pumping almost 3 years ago now. I loved the fact that my meter would remote to my pump and I didn't need to touch it in order to bolus... I loved that it was 100% waterproof and I LOVED that it was my favourite shade of green.
Bottom-line is that we want a baby and we want a healthy one. How will we get there? Well... I need to lower my A1C by .6% and then maintain these blood sugars throughout the pregnancy.
SO, we decided that starting the CGM would be the smartest choice for a healthy conception, pregnancy and thereafter.
Which brings me back to yesterday, my start day. Amber (the diabetes nurse/educator) came to our house for my training and we got right into it. I trained on the pump (easy because it's very similar to the Animas) and then I was ready for the CGM. We decided that instead of being completely overwhelmed with the alarms of the CGM, I would start it but without alarms until next Wednesday at her CGM info session. Then, she would check out my charts and turn on all the alarms for me.
After my first day, I've calibrated 4 times; had the CGM display low MOST of the time and been on target only 2 or three times. I think it's been a good day, haha. They say it may take 2 days for the CGM to be calibrated and so I'm hoping that tomorrow it shows some more 'real' numbers. As far as lows go, I've been having tons recently and I'm not really sure what's causing them but I hope they too adjust themselves soon. Tonight I turned on all the alarms and set my range so it wouldn't be TOO distracting. Already I've had far too many alarms but only because of my frequent lows.
We'll see what tomorrow brings!
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