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Low levels of glucose during the test indicate reactive hypoglycemia particularly after hours. This test is especially important for lean women with PCOS as they tend to have normal blood sugar and fasting insulin. Use signs and symptoms as noted above. If no changes are made, insulin resistance can lead to prediabetes, diabetes and increased your risk of heart disease.

If you have PCOS, the best way to test for it is by the 2 hour glucose tolerance test with insulin levels, along with signs and symptoms. The good news is that there are many things you can do to decrease insulin resistance naturally! Stay tuned for my post next week on how to reverse insulin resistance naturally through diet, lifestyle and supplements and medications if needed!

Lastly, I am not providing medical advice on treating or diagnosing insulin resistance. This blog post is merely to give information on insulin resistance and talking points to discuss with your doctor. All medical conditions and treatments should be provided by your physician. No time to cook? Most of them also have less than 30 grams of carbs. How to Test for Insulin Resistance. Share What is insulin resistance?

What is the difference between type 2 diabetes and insulin resistance? Central Obesity more than 40 inches for men or 35 inches for women. Excess fat in the abdominal area can be dangerous compared to the fat on your hips, thighs and butt. This is because abdominal fat accumulates not only subcutaneously but also in internal organs such as the heart, pancreas, and liver, and in skeletal muscles i. This fat releases active, hormone-like chemicals into the circulation. The majority of these are carried to the liver and contribute to fatty liver and insulin resistance.

This test is even more accurate than the waist measurement alone. A diagnosis of abdominal obesity android or visceral is made if the waist-hip ratio WHR is equal to or higher than 0. This would indicate abdominal obesity. This can be helpful test that you can do on your own. And even if you are lean, high WHR levels are associated with insulin resistance markers.

Waist to height ratio google to find online calculator. May 15, So great to see others in the same boat as me! I was on Medtronic insulin pumps for over 15 years. Was so excited about the TSlim. I love the dexcom G6 and the fact the pump coordinates with it. The Control IQ is also a great feature. Cons: The pump is ridiculously heavy. The clip is awful. The worst! If you wear a thin waistband or workout shorts, it just falls to the ground and pulls your cannula out!

The inclusion sets are the worst!! There are way too many pieces, way too many steps, and the cannulas do not stay in your skin. I am beyond frustrated. Unnecessary highs after eating or during the night. Changes sites every days. I so wanted to like the TSlim, but I am done!! Such a waste! Please come up with a better system, better clip and better infusion sets!

This can reduce the insulin wastage at least. Yes, You are preaching to my choirs. I feel the exact same way. I get a lot of inclusion alarms as well after just changing my sites.

I too feel a bunch of insulin is wasted in this device. I also get way to many repeats for being high after eating something and will comply with the device and correct it but it continues to alarm me grrrr.

My blood sugar does not drop instant with the highs but they do eventually come down. I really miss my Animas pump with the Dexcom ; ….. HI rebecca, there is a new clip for the Tandem pump that I like x more!! I would also recommend checking out different infusion sets. The cartridge refill process on the Tandem is a work of idiocy for sure! I switched over to the Tslim from Medtronic over a year ago. I like the tslim pump, however I want to kick it to the curb just due to the fact it only works with Humalog Insulin Humalog is not a top shelf rapid insulin for pumpers.

I have tried Apidra and Fiasp and both will occlude the tubing? Does anyone know why? And is Tandom thinking of correcting this issue? All I could find on message boards until now is how great it is. Sadly, I have experienced none of these.

The ONLY positive I have experienced thus far has been the eliminated need for checking blood sugar twice daily. The negatives are numerous. The charging necessity is inconvenient and ridiculous. Occlusions are frequent. I exercise a lot and have to replace my infusion set on a daily basis with the X2. Most of the time when I remove the set bubbles are clogging the tubing under my skin. I read here that some folks have constant highs when the cartridge is below 50 units.

This would make sense for me, as I usually only require 30 units daily so I am almost always in this range. The cartridge refill process is shamefully wasteful of insulin. The software requires the user to verify every adjustment, which is fine, but there is one very annoying exception. I gave Tandem an honest go, I truly did. Hi Ej, sorry to hear about the troubles I find most of the issues people have with highs with the Tandem are related to the cartridge fill process not being trained on properly or control IQ needing setting adjustments And some times poor site rotation practices by users the clip is awful they just came out with a new clip a lot like the old Medtronic holster clip with a gator style swiveling clip that I like a lot more.

I agree with the default requirements of the set change process being obnoxious and really hope they change this in future products too!

The pump and CGM linkage with Dexcom is great, when it works. I was diagnosed in with type 1 diabetes. I have been using an insulin pump since I began using a T-slim X2 in January because I am getting close to Medicare age and I learned the sensors for the Medtronic pumps are not covered. If I could have reordered a Revel I would have. In January my new T-slim X2 died.

The pump had to be replaced. I had only one occlusion in the 4 weeks of use. Tandem has replaced by pump 3 times now. I have used two different infusion sets from Tandem and I still get occlusions. Sometimes the occlusion happens on day one. Sometimes 2 times in one day. My frustration is that the sets are always blamed. My choice of sets with the Revel were the Mio 5mm and so I was given the Autosoft 6mm because they are supposed to be the same set…NOT.

I can now tell when an occlusion is on the way. One day I took the t-slim off, placed on the counter, and let it run on its own off of my body. It occluded about 2 hours later! This pump is a nightmare for me. WOw Kim, thanks for sharing! That is really problematic! I had an X2 that did have some occlusion issues, it was replaced and the issue never happened again. I do know that fiasp users and Apridra users do report a big increase in occlusion issues with the x2, probably related to the difference in cartridge design.

I hate this pump too. The occlusion issue is such a joke. My pump, which is relatively new about 6 months , constantly registers occlusions. Also, it appears that once insulin amount in the pump gets down to about 50, my blood sugar goes up and remains there until I refill the pump. I cannot wait to go back to Medtronic. Hi Joe, I had a similar experience with a Tandem pump and I found that an entire lot of infusion sets needed to be replaced.

I also found that this happened a lot more with Fiasp than it did with novolog, and the end of reservoir highs were fiasp related as well. So you might want to consider switching insulins. The issue seemed to be that I was having an inflammatory or autoimmune response to the fiasp. It seemed to cause intermittent occlusions at the end of the canula.

Not devaluing your experience in the least, that is SUPER furstrating it was maddening when it would happen to me too, just sharing an experience and fix that might work for you. I also switched to autosoft30 infusion sets and have not had any occlusion issues since. Meanwhile good news is that Medtronic just announced their pump is coming to market. Please send me information on the Tandem T slim 2 how its works and how it works with a Dexcom G6. I recommend reaching out to the tandem website, we do not sell pumps or cgms.

I have used a Medtronic pump for 6 years. My dr. It seems like they rushed it before perfecting the design. It takes 3 times longer or more to go through all the steps to fill it. Very poorly design. I got the distinct feeling they were trying to rush it to make more money. I had to go find a neighbor to remove the front from the back to fill it. Terrible design. Though the design was largely a space saving measure in an effort to make a smaller pump, it is cumbersome and error prone to use.

However it is also part of life with pumps that there is no perfect option, they all have benefits and drawbacks and so finding the right set up for each individual is important. Just started on the Tslim x2 two weeks ago. My sugars are significantly higher. Did you change any settings on the pump like duration of insulin action etc? Wondering if the heat generated from charging is affecting the insulin. This is often an issue realted to cartridge refill procedures and being left with air in the cartridge.

You also definitely do not want to dive straight into control IQ use after starting the pump to be sure that is not another factor as any issues it has will be hugely magnified with cartridge or set issues. I have experienced the same issues, after having come from the Medtronic g pump, where I good control. However my Dr. The X2 has actually prevented those lows and unlike the Medtronic g the X2 lets you know delivery has stopped.

Thanks for all your comments. I liked my previous g, which integrated with CGM. My biggest annoyance is the warnings — the g is constantly warning about something. So I either have to remember to turn on volume at night and turn them off in the morning, or have the stupid thing beeping all day.

The g was smart enough to vibrate and alarm in that circumstance. Two real questions I have are 1 does anyone use the tslim x2 with Apidra? Tandem says only use Humalog or Novalog, and although similar, Apidra seems to work better for me 2 Does anyone take their tslim x2 through the normal metal detectors at the airport? Not the full body scanners, but the old style metal detector. My Medtronic device has no issue with the normal metal detectors, so I only have to get a pat-down if something else sets off the metal detector.

HI Marshall, I have no used Apidra myself, but I have a couple patients who do and have not had issues with it, but they do change sets more frequently than 3 days. I have worn my X2 through every kind of security screening without issue, it is not FDA approved beyond a metal detector though.