Controlling Diabetes in the Hospital 

I just spent a month getting daily electron beam therapy for a basil cell carcinoma. The treatment center had a little lock box just outside of the treatment room to use for my Tandem pump and G6 Dexcom transmitter (using a guitar pick to temporarily remove my G6) which I removed before and reinstalled after transmitter signal returned 5 to 10 minutes later and I was go to go. Hospitals and staff are starting to get lots better in regards to Diabetics.

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This is great, thank you. As an older T1 I’ve had to figure out a lot of this on my own and actually the help of other diabetics online was the most helpful for what to do before colonoscopy. My endo nurse practitioner just said decrease Tresiba but wouldn’t say by how much. It was nerve racking. They’ve started using one of the nurse practitioners in the hospital but I’m not sure what she does. It’s really my biggest concern if I would have to go in the hospital. It’s great that you guys understand.

I feel as a T1D you must be your own advocate for your treatment in the hospital. In my last hospitalization, the nurses forgot to give me my insulin for 3 hours after I ate my dinner. They then didn't wake me up overnight to check my BG per my request. I am wondering if they ever took "Hospital" off of their signs as I don't believe they meet the standards of care for a hospital.

In the case of a T1D who is using a CGM, pump, and automated Insulin dosing algorithm, who is actually in control? Who is responsible for the system settings? What if I don't agree with the 100-180 mg/dL glucose target? It's my perception that almost every hospital will pull the pump and CGM unless a competent and well-informed patient steps forward. I'd love to see a shared aesthetic emerge.

Thank you, very interesting. Thankfully, I have not been in hospital since going on a pump about 14 years, but ya never know.👍

On my last admission I ensured my insulin was put in the computer as PRN, as needed. That was fine most of the time, but because I'd hardly been eating before my admission, someone cancelled all of my insulin, including long-acting. I had to insist upon having a doctor come to change that. I also forgot about meals. The hospital was still using the ancient exchange system. My carbs were very restricted and I desperately needed to regain lost weight. I needed those carbs because I was at a dangerously low weight.

I'm a type 2 diabetic with CLL (leukemia) and needed a PET scan. The hospital's scan department knew nothing about any of the new type of meds I was taking (Jardiance, Mounjaro) and therefore just told me no fast acting insulin (Lyumjev) after midnight yet I wasn't eligible for the test if my blood glucose was over 200. I was scheduled for 2:00PM. I failed to keep it under 200. Probably because of the stress. I had to then insist a 7AM testing but I went to low 68 and dropping when I went in. They still did my 45 minute test and didn't monitor me during the test. I wasn't wearing my CGM because Dexcom says no for PET SCANS. Luckily I had my glucose monitor with me with glucose tablets and juice boxes. I was almost blind at that point 55. I had to sit in my car for 45 minutes to get my blood sugars up to 100. Trishes team philosophy scares me also. How do we get Hospitals into this decade. They don't really want to help. My endocrinologist says that is how hospitals are. She is the head of the endocrinoligy department at the hospital in the next town over and has no sway over her own hospitals. I'm afraid of hospitals for this reason. With CLL I may have to go in. My obituary will say the hospital killed me!

This doesn't apply to this video, but some of the videos that have translations into French have not been correctly translated. Sorry to say this but the translation comes across as a rough Google translation at times. For example, the video entitled, " Êtes-vous "acing" votre diabète? Si oui, cette session avancée est pour vous!" That's bad! In fact, Google translate (Est-ce que vous « maîtrisez » votre diabète ? Si oui, cette session avancée est pour vous !") is much better. Maybe, you need to get someone to double check the translations.

My mother had a stroke and gotta eat through a tube so what foods can she eat cause the food that they are feeding her is high in sugar so what kinds of food can they give her