I am not on a pump but welcome to our group..

welcome to the group I am on Metformin and altace

i am not a pump but do take two kinds of insullin and two orals. the dr is always yelling at me for cheating

I am new.I take metformin.My readings are aways high.in the morning sometimes there over 200 I try to eat right but its really tough.I tried byetta but one of th side effects is nsusa and boy did I have it ans a matter of fact I tried it twice.I had to stop.

Thanks for the welcome. Yes, I always was being yelled at for cheating,Lizzyl00 and my readings were always high in the mornings no matter what I did. I found an endocrinologist that finally said it was not my fault. Wow, that was a relief. He told me it was a malfunction in a diabetics liver where it throws sugar into the blood stream whether it needs it or not. (I suppose a non diabetics liver knows not to do that ROFLMBO) It does that when we start to wake up. Then when we wake up, that is why we have such high reading. This endocrinologist was pretty good one as he use to teach endocrinology in Alabama,(I am in GA.) then he left here to go back to Alabama to go back to teach endocrinology and I lost him. He was the one that put the pump on me. I have not found as good an endocrinologist as he was.

I am new. I am currently on metiformin. I just can't seem to get my readings were my doc wants them. But am happy with my progress. I started with readings in the low 200s and now 140-170s. I feel like just can't win with my doc.

My doctor not only "scolds" me he has insisted I go for stomach surgery "and a tummy tuck". He told me, "Save, save". Well, I could never save that much money. And I refuse the stomach surgery. I am doing pretty good right now, as far as eating, but my sugar is still spiking, I am drinking water today, not as much as I was during the summer, but I am thirsty, I just seem to not want to drink. Read on a health site that diabetics need to drink water to wash out the extra sugar, mentioned kinds of comas diabetics fall into because of high BG and dehydration. I think I can understand the dehydration part. I am thirsty, but am having to "force" myself to drink water, which I enjoy drinking so much. It is strange, just don't know what is going on. Oh, my pancreas is causing me a great eal of discomfort. It is acting up. It ruptured some years back. I am on Metformin and Glipizide. I have to be careful with the Glipizide, it is a sudden "HYPO-GLYCIMIC" causer.

Welcome newbie! I am on insulin but trying to work my way back off. I have not been yelled at by my doctor for anything but I sure gave him a piece of my mind last time I was in there.

You'd think your MD would realize it is more complex than food vs. insulin. Hormones are a big factor and food sensitivities and every other dang thing. I recently gained 25 pounds because someone who shall be nameless changed my hormones to something that had twice the dose of my regular.

I did have a friend get yelled at because she wanted off the pump as it wasn't helping her.

I think I need different meds I take 1000mg metformin in the morning and same at supper.My dr does not want me to gain any more weight (I amoverweight now.But I have to eat nothing to keep my readings low I dont know what to do.

rashaw445, I also was only on Metformin. 1000mg AM and 1000mg PM. When I told the doc my readings were still high, he gave me "Glipizide". Told me I could control how much and when I needed it, BUT will not let me test often enough. The Glipizide causes my sugar to plunge and I get the sweats snd shakes and short of breath and legs trying to go out from under me. It is a BAD feeling. So I have to be careful. If your doc will NOT give you other meds, then try to find out what it is you really enjoy eating that DOES NOT raise your BG and only eat those things. Walk if you can or do some other floor exercises or make a pulley that hangs from a door . . . I got a clothes hanger hook that goes over the door and I have my daughters old jump rope and I put that up and sit in a chair or stand, and pull one side down and then the other. It is exercise, but don't over do it like I did, my arms hurt for weeks.

Hiya.welcome
I was on insulin but took myself of it as it wasnt working & my old doctor wasnt listening to me..i am on diaformin & am going to see a specialist who will put me back on the right road (i hope).. ive never used the pump...
how is it all going? sounds to me like your doing the right things...
take care...

Hi welcome, I am on the insulin pump. Have been for 7 years now. I am 46, went on when we decided to start a family and you couldn't be on pills for pregnancy had to be on insulin. It is so convenient as far as carrying your medication with you at all times and being able to eat at all flexible times. It has brought my sugars down and I have the 'dawn effect' also, early morning increases in glucose numbers. I am on a powerful insulin though because I am so insulin resistant. I don't have a messed up doctor like you mentioned. Mine is so supportive and actually the physician's assistant that I see mostly since he handles the pump patients is better than the doctor. I am overweight, quite a bit. I became so resistant after several miscarriages and staying on the insulin that I gained more weight. That is the draw back to insulin. The weight gain if you are Type 2. It sucks. I look good on paper, but my body has changed. No doctor should yell at you. They should partner with you. I left many a doctor who used punishment to motivate, screw that. I think anyone who takes shots should be on the pump unless they just take one shot a day. It is hard to get used to at first but if you need any tips or just to chat about it let me know.

Thanks for the info.I was not feeling good today and didn't eat much my sugars was 165 .I

don't get it
maureen