#241 Defining Diabetes: Honeymooning
Defining Diabetes: HoneyMooning
Scott and Jenny Smith, CDE define the terms at the center of your type 1 diabetes care
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Scott Benner 0:00
In this episode of defining diabetes, Jenny Smith and I are going to define honeymooning. Yes, that odd and unpredictable time in type one diabetes. Defining diabetes is made possible by dexcom on the pod and dancing for diabetes, hang out for just a couple moments after Jenny and I define bazel and find out more about them all. Please remember that nothing you hear on the Juicebox Podcast should be considered advice medical or otherwise, the Always consult a physician before becoming bold with insulin or making any changes to your medical plan. Can you please define honeymooning?
Jennifer Smith, CDE 0:37
That's a good one. So honeymooning is essentially the time period after diagnosis. For people with type one diabetes, when the pancreas is still really able to produce an amount of insulin, which decreases your overall insulin need, in that early phase after diagnosis and early phase could be defined by two months, it could be defined as maybe even up to a year some people may honeymoon. Essentially, you have lower insulin means you respond to insulin better. Some people also find that with better upfront glucose control after diagnosis, honeymoon lasts longer, because the pancreatic beta cells are not breath with the injected or pumped insulin, so they don't have as much work to do to keep blood sugar down and respond. You may honeymoon longer the better control you have post diagnosis. Okay.
Scott Benner 1:43
Now, for those of you who are married, I think the reason honeymooning has been applied to the part of diabetes when your pancreas is still helping out a little bit and giving you a break is it's not so much that you can call it a honeymoon which obviously, is defined online as a vacation spent together by a newly married couple. But it's because it's so that you can one day say the honeymoon is over. That's That's why we I think why we call honeymooning in diabetes. So it's so that one day you can make that statement and really feel the weight of it. For those who have been married for a very long time, I feel like you already understand what I'm saying. But for those of you who are still young and hopeful and excited or newly married, you know there will be a time when it'll be exciting to see your husband get tired and fall asleep before you keep like Oh thank God that guy's gonna leave me alone tonight. Right like like that's when you know the honeymoons over? We think a vacation is you know, just taking a day off from work and not going anywhere and sitting around you don't care anymore. I heard somebody say once when you're buying your underwear at a big box store, you know you've been married for quite some time. So I think that is the idea and it is important to to realize that in the beginning you know we always say you need to be a little more careful with insulin because it's possible you could give yourself insulin during the honeymoon period and then your pancreas could like wake up and go hey here Did you need some insulin? right and and that makes honeymooning difficult I often tell people I as crazy as it sounds, it's gonna get easier when the honeymoons over, because at least there's stability that you can that you can expect. Get. Unknown. Yeah, right. It's the unknown. So why? Yeah, because right. So, again, if you're disappointed that your husband forgot your birthday, your honeymoon is over. When you come to expect that he's gonna forget your birthday. That's when you're cruising along with diabetes Berry. That's easy. I like that. You don't want to miss the diabetes pro tip series that Jenny and I did recently. It begins back in Episode 210. with diabetes pro tip newly diagnosed starting over after that it's Episode 211. All About MDI Episode 212. All About insulin. In Episode 217. We talked about Pre-Bolus Singh in 218 Temp Basal in 219. Insulin pumping into 24. Or mastering your CGM into 25. bumping and nudging into 26. The perfect Bolus and into 31. We talked about variables. The latest installment just went up a few days ago, and it's about setting your basal rates. Defining diabetes on the Juicebox Podcast is brought to you by Dexcom on the pod and dancing for diabetes, there are links in the show notes and Juicebox podcast.com to all the wonderful sponsors. But if you want to find out more about getting a free, no obligation demos the AMI pod you can go to my omnipod.com forward slash juice box to get started on the dexcom g six continuous glucose monitor dexcom.com forward slash juice box and to learn about the goods that's being done at dancing for diabetes, go to dancing the number four diabetes.com Thanks Checking out the finding diabetes. Come back every Friday as Jenny and I break down a new word or phrase that is impacting your life with type one diabetes.
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#238 Defining Diabetes: Basal
Defining Diabetes: Basal
Scott and Jenny Smith, CDE define the terms at the center of your type 1 diabetes care
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Scott Benner 0:00
In this episode of defining diabetes, Jenny Smith and I are going to define bazel. Seems simple, doesn't it? Maybe it's not. Maybe it means more than you think. Defining diabetes is made possible by Dexcom on the pod and dancing for diabetes, hang out for just a couple moments after Jenny and I define bazel and find out more about them all. Please remember that nothing you hear on the Juicebox Podcast should be considered advice, medical or otherwise, the Always consult a physician before becoming bold with insulin, or making any changes to your medical plan. Hey, Jenny, let's define bazel. I'm going to go first this time.
Unknown Speaker 0:40
Okay.
Scott Benner 0:42
I'm online. Right? So Basal outside of diabetes is just forming or belonging to a bottom layer or a base, which makes sense when you translate it to diabetes, right? Because it's a baseline of insulin. Right? It's it's that, that that kind of layer of insulin that, you know, we talk about all the time on the podcast, like, you know, when you hear me tell you, during like a higher carb meal, I think we call them a carb beer meal one time I said, I like to lay a blanket of bazel over top of the lifetime of that food. So that makes sense. But how would you define bazel for diabetes,
Jennifer Smith, CDE 1:18
so bazel for diabetes, essentially, it's a in those who inject it's a long acting insulin, usually inject it once or twice a day, and it covers the background feed the physiologic need for insulin that your own pancreas would do as a drip, drip, drip, drip, drip all day long. basal insulin has
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fees in to cover food, right? We know that it does if you're doing other things and the potential need to increase or decrease but in this definition, Faisal truly covers your physiologic need for a background insulin. And we all need it in our body at all times. Even people without diabetes, their pancreas goes drip drip, drip, drip drip. If you're on a pump, it goes drip drip drip at a rate if you're taking up an injected bazel it is absorbed from the site that you would inject it at once or twice a day, over a long period of time.
Scott Benner 2:29
You don't want to miss the diabetes pro tip series that Jenny and I did recently. It begins back in Episode 210. with diabetes pro tip newly diagnosed starting over after that it's Episode 211. All About MDI Episode 212. All About insulin. In Episode 217. We talked about Pre-Bolus going into 18 Temp Basal in 219 insulin pumping into 24. Or mastering your CGM into 25. bumping and nudging into 26 the perfect Bolus and into 31. We talk about variables. The latest installment just went up a few days ago, and it's about setting your basal rates. Defining diabetes on the Juicebox Podcast is brought to you by Dexcom on the pod and dancing for diabetes. There are links in the show notes at Juicebox podcast.com to all the wonderful sponsors. But if you want to find out more about getting a free no obligation demo valmy pod you can go to Miami pod.com Ford slash juice box to get started on the Dexcom g six continuous glucose monitor dexcom.com forward slash juice box and to learn about the goods that's being done at dancing for diabetes go to dancing the number for diabetes.com Thanks for checking out defining diabetes. Come back every Friday as Jenny and I break down a new word or phrase that is impacting your life with type one diabetes.
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#236 Defining Diabetes: Bolus
Defining Diabetes: Bolus
Scott and Jenny Smith, CDE define the terms at the center of your type 1 diabetes care
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Scott Benner 0:00
I always like to give consideration to the things that we take for granted. For instance, some of the words that we use on the podcast, I get notes from you guys all the time. My favorite one very recently was I didn't know until I was listening to the podcast for months that I was doing MDI. I mean, I knew I was injecting insulin, but I didn't know it was called multiple daily injections, and that people shortened that to MDI. So I thought, you know what, that probably happens to more people than I realized. And so today is the first of our new mini episodes, they're just going to be a few minutes long. They'll happen on Fridays, and they're going to be with me and Jenny Smith as we define diabetes. I think I want to call this defining diabetes with Scott and Jenny. That data that then there'll be like music and there's no music. I have no money for music. Anyway, just imagine like game show music in your head. And then I'll say the thing so I'll give you a second. You get the game show music running. Right? Like card sharks or something like that. You got to go and ready. Hi, everybody. Its defining diabetes with Scott and Jenny. I'm gonna use this weird I'm not talking like that. Anyway, this one's Bolus, okay, that's where we're gonna start Bolus. That seems like a good reasonable place to start to believe it or not. There are people listen to this podcast and send me notes and say, I don't know what Bolus means. So you will in a second, hey, by the way, it means more than you think. Defining diabetes is made possible by Dexcom on the pod and dancing for diabetes. After Jenny and I define Bolus today there'll be a little information about those companies. Stick around for 30 seconds and check it out. Please remember that nothing you hear on the Juicebox Podcast should be considered advice medical or otherwise the Always consult a physician before becoming bold with insulin or making any changes to your medical plan. Jenny let's define Bolus you go for
Jennifer Smith, CDE 1:47
I go first of Bolus is the easy way to define it. Bolus is a one time right now dose of insulin that's given for two reasons. One, either to cover food or to correct and bring a high blood sugar down, though it's a whether you inject it or you do it with your pump. It is an amount of insulin that you give right now it's not something that lingers like a basal insulin would.
Scott Benner 2:24
And it's also outside of diabetes, a real medical word that would be used that's nothing to do with insulin. And it just means to infuse liquid right and or something like that. Isn't that the the actual Hold on a second lunch this Jenny? mission, I'm gonna look it up on the internet. A small rounded mass of a substance especially of chewed food. That's weird at the moment of swallowing a type of large pill use in a veterinarian medicine. I think Here we go. Here's the one for us a single dose of a drug or other medicinal preparation given all at once,
Jennifer Smith, CDE 2:58
all at once. And part of the reason that Bolus came in to use with diabetes is because of the initial known definition is that it's that small mass of like food that you chew up and that goes down your throat. It's called a bolus. Really so when you when you take insulin for food, it's almost like your Bolus Bolus thing because your bowl of thing a single dose of a drug insulin, they cover an amount of food a bolus of food.
Scott Benner 3:28
You're so smart.
You don't want to miss the diabetes pro tip series that Jenny and I did recently. It begins back in Episode 210. with diabetes pro tip newly diagnosed starting over after that it's Episode 211 all about MDI Episode 212. All About insulin. In Episode 217. We talked about Pre-Bolus going into 18 Temp Basal in 219 insulin pumping into 24. Or mastering your CGM into 25 bumping and nudging into 26 the perfect Bolus and into 31. We talked about variables. That series is ongoing. Do not miss it and it's designed to be listened to in order even if you're not doing MDI. Check out the MDI episode started newly diagnosed and starting over listen through. I guarantee you're gonna love them. Defining diabetes on the Juicebox Podcast is brought to you by Dexcom on the pod and dancing for diabetes. There are links in the show notes at Juicebox podcast.com to all the wonderful sponsors. But if you want to find out more about getting a free no obligation demo valmy pod you can go to my on the pod.com forward slash juice box to get started on the Dexcom g six continuous glucose monitor dexcom.com forward slash juice box and to learn about the good that's being done at dancing for diabetes good at dancing the number for diabetes.com Thanks for checking out defining diabetes come back every Friday. And I break down a new word or phrase that is impacting your life with type one diabetes.
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