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Kong
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« on: October 17, 2011, 04:02:49 PM »

This question is for those who have diabetes and are doing PD.

How do you keep your blood sugars near normal?

I have been doing PD since April and am still struggling with my glucose levels. I am currently on the cycler doing 4 exchanges of 2500 ml a night of 2.5(green) solution. I tried yellow but it just doesn't pull off enough.
Before PD my A1C was 5.9 and now it's up to 7.4. The transplant hospital wants it below 6.9. My Endo keeps pumping me full of more insulin and as a result I keep gaining weight and I am already on hold on the list until I lose 20 lbs (now 30 lbs).

The Neph want to try me using 1.5 for the overnight exchanges and a manual fill of extraneal to carry for the day. Is anyone else doing this?

Thanks for reading this and appreciate any and all input.
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« Reply #1 on: October 18, 2011, 06:49:12 AM »

I don't have diabetes, but I do a manual fill every afternoon before doing the cycler overnight. Apparently the PD nurse didn't think I was getting enough dialysis with just the cycler. Waiting on adequacy testing and labs right now to see how I'm doing. Keeping my fingers crossed that my numbers are up. I find out tomorrow.
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